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[Enraptured by Springs Rainfall]

Hello there

New Wave eh is it.
I don't know what the other "Season songs" are tho...

This is a spring song? Well, the rainfall makes it sound much more like an autumn song... I can clearly imagine walking through some autumned woods by listening to this.

Very calm song... almost ambient sounding. The percussion is really suiting the track (maybe not the toy shaker-like thingy that comes once in a while though), they almost breathe. And the faster, louder drum loop you faded in later sounds great! Loved how you faded it into the song... phasers on drums is teh shite :D

Now the frogs and birds do remind a little of spring... I guess you submitted this song now because spring is pretty much coming now...

The chill synth-hit thing sounds a bit off at time, but it's an amazing synth!

The piano is good... a bit cheap sounding though, a little reverb on it would've made it fit the track more. And a little higher attack.

The chime bell ended the track very well, an idea would be to fade out everything except that bell while you're playing the final notes on it.

The buildups and bridges in this song is seriously well made, I guess you're having it from that trance wave you seemt to have a few months back...

Actually I like these tunes of yours better than your faster trance/dance/vg songs... songs like this, ChilledMasta an Visions of the Future are the kind of songs I really like.

This is my first review for HouseMaster with a bit of music knowledge I think... :(

[-Consoles-]

Indeed minimal

The start was incredibly dull and empty... you could've done mroe out of it than a low rez kick and a clap eh? Good that the following part sounds good though, Liked how you made the pade come in panning from the left speaker and then when it's at it's full put it into both of the speakers. Cleverly done!

the following beats and melodies all fit very well, they're very glitchy and makes a really awesome glitch/IDM feeling. The VG FX that comes in later is overwhelming and makes the song super messy, but that's how IDM is I guess :) Pretty nice square pad you got in a little before the end, maybe the thing I liked most of it.

Holy hell this song is long! It's still not done! The end was like the start, pretty cheap, but the song's main part really makes it out!

Great IDM/Video Game, have a 4/5!

(also it'd be awesome of you if you hit me back with a review too- but you don't need to)

Squarears responds:

this trk is supposed to be representative of the good old days of games consoles, so the cheap sounds are very much purposeful. As for the start being very dull, i disagree, the intention with this track was to build, and if you find 8bars of drums dull then maybe it's your attention span that should be called into question.
I would also like to add that I dont think the song gets messy at any point, perhaps it sounds more messy than it is in reality, as here it's only at 96kbps, if you hear it at 128kpbs or 192kbps, even better:) the space of the mix is far more apparent, but what can you do.
Reviewed one of your ambient tracks, very nice indeed.
Thanks for the honest review.

[System Override (MS RAVE)]

ms rave...

what does that mean... Microsoft Rave? Is that some new workstation program them bastards created :D

pretty good tune here, awesome pads. They have a very breathing sound, you could've made the effect even clearer with more gain on the super-high frequency and more velocity on the noise...

The leads have great melodies, they're all very catchy, but they don't have the nice feeling that most soft leads have. work on it.

What be this? GarageBand preset effect samples? :O

Very nice buildups in this. The way you got in a beat (which is good- though it's a bit too gabbertechno-ish and repeatative for my taste) too is very nice

Nice track you've got here dude. I wouldn't call this a rave, it's a bit soft and changes the style about ALL the time...

Five and ten for you. It's awesome to see how popular you are around here too :)

Music-story responds:

ehh? garage band presets? I actually made the effects with my drum kits. If you read my past review (not sure which one) I said I made around 95% (or at least for sure 90%) of the special effects with kits. This means that I had to play the keyboard to make the special effects. I didn't know gb3 had presets like this. I could of saved myself alot of time. MS stands for music story. Yeah mastering is an issue but at the end of the song I wanted the chaos feeling so I purposely made it hard to hear the notes. Using like 17 different features in my music program in the last 20 or so seconds of my song...of course it wouldn't be clear no matter how hard I tried to master it. Done on purpose...system crash. The song was not supposed to be soft. I know you expect soft stuff from me considering all my other songs are soft, but these NG ppl love raves so much it's funny. I made one to satisfy them rave lovers. :) I'm really not too worried about the mastering. The composition is the hardest part which not many can do, but mastering...well tons of people can do that very well. I'll just ask someone to master my tracks for me. Yah lazy me. :) Thanks for the review...quite nice I might add.

[~Trail to Paradise~ Final Song]

awesome piece

but why the fuck do everybody leave before they even got regulars... now you'll remember me as a complete dumbfuck damnit

the flute was the best aspect of it, the thrills later on the flute came to it on perfect timing.
Piano sounds good, a little bare though.
Guitar sounds really good, though not very diverse...

not much to say except for awesome work!
bye a bit late :(

aspachi responds:

Not very Diverse? Aww, come on! That's Perfect Diversity I put out onto That song! Though you right about my Piano, a Little Bare....Hey, i'm Coming back to NG! ^_^

[dj_padman - acid recharge]

so how do I pronounce it...

like "low shelf EQ put to full PLZ?"
awesome work...

[Gimme Da Beet]

goddamnit

why are everyone demanding people in titles... fod did... you did... even zenon... I'm just explaining happenings >:(

the only thing of significanse here was the square which fits the pitch of the voice perfectly. Everything else goes silently bym which does include drum beat and lead. I hardly noticed the lead after a while.

try to make something that includes more out of your songs before submit.

[Universe City]

You seem to be quite an impressing audio artist...

Man, you've got talent. Super smooth, incredibly succesfull flash and kickass tecno/dance tunes, that's pretty friggin awesome :D

the melody in this is very typical for this kinda tracks, but it's good tho. A bit over-reverbed, but if you turned that down and took away the subnotes, it'd sound great.

The piano is good, a bit too much of it in the song.

Then there's this awesome electric drift bass with a DnB bass on the side. Great addition.

this track seems endless... at least it's very long. But it's great! Keep it up!

[-({Passion})-]

dude

remember that usually if you made it in 20 minutes chances are NG doesn't want it. This is an exception though. Very catchy piano combined with drum loop. The small variations and improvisations of the melody made it more exciting too. The more maniac trancelead sounds great, but the piano that comes in afterwards sounds super-overdone, and the rest of the song is too much based on that excect melody. It is very cool though.
Great work for it being only 20 minutes

[Dance to the beat now!]

STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO!!!!!!

First you're telling me to turn the noise off, and then telling me to shut the fuck up, thinking you can just demand me to rave (which is not my style at all DICKS GRR) and friggin dance to your stupid fucking beat. (jk)

having that said, this is a cool track. The main synth is damn great with the spacy square. Could like to see more diversity here though.

also, GENERIC GABBER KICK FOUR TIMES A MEASURE

Father-of-Death responds:

xD

w,e

i like teh gabber kick though, it's just my opinion

but thnx for this review...

the one you reviewed for "lion king" scared me...

[GENERIC PICO ROCK LOOP]

hahahahahahaha!

first SORRY FOR MY LAST REVIEW, lol I wasn't serious, just wanted to see how you'd respond if I acted like a grumpy old man :D It has a core of truth thou :/

This isn't half bad! The guitar soundfont sounds quite realistic compared to other guitar soundfonts *chuckles* I've heard.

this needs more than just guitar and drums >:(>:(>:(>:(>:(>:( SBB angreh

Father-of-Death responds:

you are allways angreh bout somethin haha!

but thnx for the reviews man!

i'm to lazy to review back....