anthonyragus's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[nice car]

Hey, I had a listen to a few of your tracks (including this one), and I super dig your style. Dark, minimalist, with some kind of liminal space feeling to your work.

RiverK responds:

Thank you! I do love a good liminal space.

Your own library is impressively diverse!

[Tired, very tired]

I think this is close to perfect. I enjoy the space you create and the simplicity of the sounds paired with the "glitchiness"; adding more would take away from it's character. Sometimes music demands certain practices, due to style or intended usage, but style and usage are up to you. Perhaps you could play around with the first cycle, the delay on one or two bass notes could be a good idea, but I can imagine several "real-world" applications for this track as-is. Keep being you, dude.

[(Club) Axis Time (Equilibrium OST)]

based sine wave

ClubbinMusic responds:

and what's wrong with that?

[Vessel Full of Dreams]

Amazing work here, another example of foley, sound design, and that quintissential mechanical-but-soft upright sound, joining together to produce something truly special. Your transitions roll through like waves pushing to the shore.

Phonometrologist responds:

Where did you come from? Been listening to your tracks, and they are fun, interesting, and intellectually stimulating. Thank you for stopping by.

[Discordance Within]

Oh yes, this is the good stuff, somewhat evocative of Arvo Pärt's Für Alina, but even more spacious. The closed-ish pandiatonic harmony suits the pacing well, especially with how certain strings ring / sympathize. That walking bassline around 5:50 is satisfying, especially after hanging around, more or less, the middle of the keyboard. i enjoy visiting this minimalist area when noodling at the piano, letting harmony ring out, and breathing in the space, but you've inspired me to live there and see something through to "completion"; fantastic work.

Phonometrologist responds:

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on it. Arvo Pärt uses his own method to achieve the desired result, and I wanted to create my own technique to determine the musical dictation. I wouldn't have been disciplined enough to keep the structure's integrity if I didn't go by a certain guideline.
"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.” - Igor Stravinsky.

[Devils Lament]

\m/ This is a fantastic use of MOR (if my ears are correct). Your mixing is getting better and better. That middle section is awesome, a great balance of repetition and variation.

Lashmush responds:

Hey, thanks for the feedback! My whole approach to mixing is new now so the results are clearly showing its a better one. c:

[Dubstep - OH NO]

This is pretty cool! I like the bassline and the high string drone that floats over everything.

The problem that stood out to me was combining the sample with the buildup and post-drop. You could have two distinctive time feels, one swung and one straight. In fact listening to the outro it kind of sounds like that's what you wanted. But if you're going to have that sampled vocoder thing in a straight-felt section, you need to quantize it to straight 8th notes so that my brain doesn't freak out hearing both straight and swung at the same time.

There are other things regarding mixing that I won't go into, but great job for trying something new! My first attempt at dubstep was a disaster. Quantum shit was flying everywhere.

Zazzy responds:

The outro was to a part I never finished and decided to drop because FOOK IT I'm a lazy bastard.

[Carolina Tommorow [demo]]

very nice!

I loved it! How do you create the turntable sound at 0:45?

One minor thing is bothering me. At the beginning (0:18) the piano plays a D-natural, but the melody from 1:03 and onwards has D-flat.

Nonetheless, this sounds incredible and professional!

Rawrthaas responds:

Thanks for the review

The turntable sound is the kick through Gross Beat. You can use gross beat to modulate time, volume, and other various glitchy effects on the fly

[Concerto forTuba and Orchestra]

Very Interesting!

I like it a lot! I can tell you put a lot of thought into what instruments to choose for each melody.
I believe "bnamdar" was trying to say that the melody would sound like F minor except for those moments when the major third would be played. You also switched to a minor third somewhere around :40.
Great piece overall.

sadlersongs responds:

Ah I understand now. I it's in F minor and the key signature is F minor but every now and then I throw in some major chords to mix it up a little. Screw traditional chord progressions!

[Inequitable Equality]

Hooray for Oxymorons!

It was repeditive, but it was good repitition. Great melody and great synth/ambient instruments!

alternativesolution responds:

Thanks again!