Astro-reality's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[P-Bot's Song]

This sounds like awesome stuff man, good job. I like that reverb in this.

[FD - Town Theme]

Nice work bro

ForgottenDawn responds:

Thanks man

[Living Dystopia]

Sounds professional, as Seth said starting out with a hip-hop vibe to it but that synth gives it a particular interesting feeling. It sounds like the world falling apart, but still in the process of doing this and not a total dystopia yet. All the instruments work in harmony with each other. Nice stuff.

[Solace]

This has a nice feeling to it, I really like the percussion in your tracks. I like the build-up in this track with the soothing guitar in the beginning going to a very strange atmosphere from around 00:45, would fit great as background music!

pitbulljones responds:

Thank you very much. Always my aim to create atmosphere.

[FD - Whispering Horizon]

Very nice chilling track, really like that synth coming in at 00:26.
A rough version of your later work, but definitely a good track!

ForgottenDawn responds:

Thanks, I agree with you. It's still a very symbolic work to me, as it represents the start of a new journey~

[étoile du jour]

Sounds very nice. I like the part from 0:46 which fades in there, I don't know why the French language fits so well with electronic music. I guess it's that "vogue" feeling which it gives, although probably nobody will get what I mean with that lol.

Nice thingo

[Blooming Nightshade (Remastered) in C]

Sounds like a good battle theme, but around 1:26 the lead seems to go into a strange direction. It isn't bad but it gives a strange sound in my ears as a transition, I would personally try to establish a better transition there. I have to say that the direction around 2:08 is pretty sick however and I like the oriental bits which you put in there. Good leads and synths and the mastering sounds quite well done, I love these light-hearted melodies near the end of this.

Good job

Noisysundae responds:

"Perhaps it's because the following breakbeat instead of the usual 4-on-the-floor? It was an experimental concept I put into this menu in 2015. There's also the sub bass that plays right after the buildup and weird someone out. Anyway, I'll keep that in mind for the menus in the future, thanks. The oriental bit was just the very same pluck played in a different scale, though." — The Manager

[child of the woods]

I hadn't reviewed anything of you yet! I love what you did with the vocals coming in around 01:38 after that piano which really adds a mysterious atmosphere to this song. There is a good balance between the different instruments and elements. I can't phrase a good opinion on the singing as I don't have much technical knowledge on singing (I usually do instrumental tracks), I have a question, did you record all the vocals yourself, or did you mix this together with the vocals of other people as well? It sounds like different people are singing in this, which adds to the idea of a collective of druids.

For a project I have studied the Druids for a while, burning down their temples down could be interpreted symbolically if we look at history, the last Druids more or less disappeared after the Druids were more and more put under pressure, first by Caesar and after that by early Christians, after which we only had remnants of the historical Druids left in the Irish form of Christianity and Irish folk tales, while the Neo-Druids which arose in and after romanticism didn't use the most reliable sources and didn't continue an existing line of Druids.

I completely agree with you that the burning wood adds so much atmosphere to this song, you really did a good job here.

5'd

Troisnyx responds:

Ah thank you! 💖 That is kind of you~

In response:

1) All the vocals, despite the difference in timbre, are mine. For the choirs, I layered the vocals in groups of three or five.

2) The Druids were an allegory; while it may have happened to them that their forests were killed and their people destroyed, it still happens to indigenous peoples around the world to this day — I wrote a long newspost on the matter, citing the Orang Asli and the Amazonians as some particular examples.

[KKS - Indigo]

Quite a nice and relaxing track which pulls you in a nice dreamy ambient landscape, with a metallic resonant sound around 01:20, while the rest seems to fit well with some adventure. I like it!

[-Bass Terror-]

This sounds like a good quality song. Right around the part at 00:36 you can really hear a change in

I never heard Drum and Bass with a flute before, but as I hear here it can fit quite well.

The song seems to really kick in around 01:59 when the glitchy and Dubstep parts start to get in. I like how you combined the voice samples with the rest of the track here and also have a tempo change which isn't too abrupt but fits quite well with the previous part, while having a build-up to a more faster and aggressive part which lays down the Dubstep parts a bit deeper after that. It has a lot of tension in it and the orchestral parts are fit in very well to give a transition to a more oriental feeling after this. It feels like this track has a story progression in it as you listen to it, with the chiptunes part coming after that. I wasn't sure about the audience noise at the background as as a listener you know that it isn't a real audience, but you have fit that in in such a way that it fits well with the rest.

That bass wobble at the end is sick and gives an outro with a real classic Drum and Bass feeling in this song. I can't say what has to improve, as this is a top-quality song. Deserves so many listens and the good voting, keep up the good work man.

Preds responds:

Wow! Thank you so much, I appreciate this kind of constructive criticism ^^