Score: 10

"LOL Rig, you rock the house. This is really dope"

submission: Rig - Am I Cool Yet?

date: November 11, 2009

Freakin' seal of approval on this sucka' if I ever felt to do such a thing. Brilliant. So downloading this and it's almost completely unheard of for me to do that.

This is a piece of work man. Kick-awesome. Just awesome. No advice that I could give here. Too busy enjoying it honestly.

egad...this is fun...I don't even know how you do it

Score: 10

"obviously fantastic"

submission: Time (bring it on)

date: November 10, 2009

The real question...is why is voicemale on, NG...?? Of all places. Seems odd, the group has a huge presence in the mormon community anyway and their cd's can be found everywhere in LDS bookstores...etc.

Anyway - I can't help but wonder if this is just for publicity - because (obviously) it trounces the median level of production to be found here normally. It doesn't really compute in a sense. Of course good work anyway. Fantastic as many of the previous works are. I have a good deal of your guys' cds, each new one is better than the last. It's clear you've been honing skill over the years.

Score: 9

"very enjoyable...liked this"

submission: PureX (Final State)

date: October 25, 2009

It was somewhat minimalistic at the beginning - wasn't quite sure what to think of the supporting chords at :45 and building...but they are also nice sounding. Maybe clashing a little bit to my ears.

The breakdown at 1:50 was pretty cool - and sounding like it was going into a completely different song (which it seemed to do). The beat that kicks in after that is way way too grating. I think there is a lot of potential here - the arps are actually really enjoyable! I liked that stuff quite a bit. Just needs to be properly eq'd and then integrated a little better into the rest of the song.

Neat stuff though. There's plenty of character here in the piece that I did enjoy quite a bit.

Score: 10

"this is good"

submission: Big Red - Mr Jones

date: October 21, 2009

There's not a whole lot of decent amateur rap out there that doesn't sound really corny and just not clever or timed well.

This is HUGE HUGE exception to that. This is an excellent (if short) and incredibly well written and poignant example of well-thought out and aptly engineered rhyme paired with a catchy beat and instrumental...

Listening to it again, I am stuck how on occasion these gems do actually show in their proper spot on newgrounds instead of the normal multi-tracked drivel that graces the front page of the audio portal normally.

The only thing I think is funny is you used the word "refute" in reference to what the character could do in the case of his own "sh*t talking". It doesn't exactly make sense in this context as the word refute means to figuratively dismantle (as in to refute someone else's statement), and why would the character want to sabotage his own argument? Anyway - there's a more appropriate word choice there that I can't suggest at right now.

Score: 9

"Impressive..."

submission: The Travel to Polaris

date: October 20, 2009

Uber-professional. You certainly have a knack for this. The flow and pace of the song is just excellent...I would have preferred some really kickin drums at about 3:30 to really drive the song forward and build up the energy - but the way it sits is still fine and why I'm not giving this a 10. Some obviously very complicated and probably modular fx arrangements to achieve the huge ambiance in the song.

Reminds of a much more relaxed BT.

Score: 8

"too much compression for my tastes...."

submission: Abyss - F-777

date: July 5, 2009

A mite bright and edgy but everyone has their own style. The composition itself in terms of progression and overall synth timbre is excellent. There is a good deal of ambiance that seems to be gasping for breath as it's buried so heavily beneath a layer of thick compression.

So not a big fan of that area of production. But then this is an honest review, so I figure why not? Again - excellent use of instrumentation and atmosphere but it's just overwhelmed in the end by heavy pumping compression that forced me to turn the volume down a few notches. It's pretty typical trance though in the end.

Score: 10

"nice"

submission: Godmodeon-Xeno/Mj

date: December 15, 2008

beautiful stuff. Extraordinary production and content here. No complaints or critiques. You guys appear to be real virtuosos at this stuff...

Score: 10

"evil dog strikes again...."

submission: Evil-Dog - Punk in Metropolis

date: December 11, 2008

and wins!! ha ha ha! awesome song!! sounds quite nice...

you do this cover thing pretty well I'd say.

Score: 10

"wow - this is actually pretty impressive"

submission: BurntCrystals:ISA_X-is-Trance

date: December 6, 2008

mad props for this friend. I really am digging the fx here - it's actually really awesome!!

Score: 10

"very catchy!"

submission: Anxiety Cure _ RR

date: December 3, 2008

short review here. just wanted to up your review score. Nice arrangement. It's extremely addicting to listen to for some reason. It's not all that new or distinct but something about it is so fresh. Not sure how you did that. Good work though!