curriemaster's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Danalpa's Riff Metalcaniz]

A Quality Chill

This song would be excellent as the menu music for a gory first person shooter I think. It has the ambient quality necessary to have it on a loop for a long time, but it doesnt keep grabbing your attention away; as the guy who posted before me has attested. Personally, it reminds me a bit of some of the music in Red Alert 1 & 2, which is definitely a good thing. Keep it up mate!

Curriemaster

Metalcan responds:

Thanks man! I remember that Red Alert music, it was cool.

[Desert Rose]

Scene Six?

Succulent wail on that guitar right there. It reminds me a lot of some Liquid Tension Experiment or Dream Theater stuff, very Petrucci-esque guitaring in this one. The bass line ties everything together very well. I like it, particularly the beginning; it sets the scene well. Good job!

Curriemaster

Metalcan responds:

Thanks, mate! Glad you liked it.

[Mother Russia]

Tasty and Dark

Metalcan,

I like it a lot! One of my favourite classical works is Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition; and I think this had a lot of Mussorgsky flavour to it. Very atmospheric, I particularly love the bit with the woodwinds and the pizzicato strings. Excellent touch! I want to hear some more classical from you! Also, cheers for the sig pic mate ;).

Curriemaster

Metalcan responds:

Ah, a fellow Mussorgsky fan. Thank you very much for the review! :)

[Blood Thirsty--_--]

Dieselboy-esque

I enjoyed listening to this song. It has the build-ups and breaks in all the right places. The quality of samples you've used are excellent as well; particularly the drum kits, and the little percussive sounds. The orchestral elements add a lot to this song. This song is reminiscent of a few songs by Dieselboy.

Hearing this has made me look into getting Reason, I've been looking it up and it sounds like a powerful program. Well done Zenon :).

PERVOK responds:

Good choice.
I underestimated reason before and after i got the demo, i thought it was too....hard to use.
But, after me and my brother sat down, we figured it out, got the full version, and all i can say is:

Reason is freakin powerful when rewired with FL.

Thanks for the review!

[Untitled Menu Music___]

Fun drums

I like this piece a lot, its got a slow funk to it; its simple but it keeps you listening. I particularly like the discordant whistling chords. It sound a lot like early Thievery Corporation.

The drums have a good quality to them as well, if they were of lesser build it would detract from the song considerably. I can definetely imagine this as a menu piece.

Also, I noticed in your profile that you have I <3 Huckabees as one of your favourite films. This makes me happy. Good job, John, I look forward to hearing more of your songs as you upload them.

JohnFloyd responds:

Once again, thanks for the comments! That third movie slot was a tough call. If you don't mind older movies I strongly recommend They Might Be Giants, I've never met anyone who's heard of it but it's a wonderfully introspective comedy (it's nothing like Being JM, but they're in the same category) that kicks my ass every time I see it.

[Restaurant___]

Environment Modelling is perfect

Well done again. I used to play the piano at a piano bar in Edinburgh, and I'm pretty sure if I were to take an MD recorder (tape recorders are sooo passe) and record for the night, it would sound exactly like this. Minus the snare edge, ride cymbal and bass.

I particularly enjoyed how you managed to layer the vocals to give an impression of an enclosed space with hard walls...did you use an environment/reverb modeller like Lexicon Pantheon or anything for this? Anyway, it appears you have a great talent for mixing tracks together. Me likey.

JohnFloyd responds:

Thanks for all the comments! I used to play a little jazz piano myself, although not in a bar, that sounds like fun (especially over there... here in the US our bars are boring :P ).

I use Reason, so reverb is all about throwing the ol' RV7000 into the rack and tweaking it until you have the sound you're looking for. Oh, and a little EQ on top of that helps too, I tried to figure out which frequencies would carry best in a restaurant, in the end I just guessed and it came out okay.

[Insane Asylum___]

Excellent Use of Ambient Sound

Hey John, great work on this song. At first I was dubious about the genre of video game; but after listening to it a few times I realised that this reminded of two distinctly dark and disturbing games: American McGee's Alice and Planescape: Torment.

The vocals were very creatively layered and the piano was placed perfectly in the song to evoke a whats-going-happen-next atmosphere. Ill be rating and reviewing the rest of your songs, but for now you get a 5. Woo!

JohnFloyd responds:

Thanks for the comment! I wrote this for a theoretical video game, so I figured that's the genre where it belonged. It's not really "easy-listening"... ;D

[A Christmas Rondo]

Santa and the Dark Clowns

Hey Khuskan,

What a sumptuous song, very Christmas-esque and bright. I must agree with WinterWind though, it seemed like you had a couple of discordant notes chucked in there. However, if you were going for the "Happy Christmas with slight tinge of Evil Circus", then it fits the bill perfectly. Good choice of instruments as well mate. Nice one.

Curriemaster

Khuskan responds:

Excellent, now all i need is an evil circus christmas flash and my job will be made :o

[Windows XP]

Very interesting

Hey Diabolo-ical,

Nice tune; quite creative and much better than the other "chopped up Windows SFX" songs Ive heard. I would much prefer this to the real Windows shut down. I'll 5 it up to the max, my friend.

Curriemaster

Diabolo-ical responds:

I'm glad you like it! Thanks for the kind words and high rating dude.

[Acoustic_Chill]

Excellent

Hey LJ

Great song, it really gave me the impression of a soundtrack to walk to. I think I may bung it on to the ole iPod just to check out its travelling potential. I, like PiePie, kept expecting vocals to sprout up at some point; but its grand that they didn't. Well done!

Curriemaster

LJCoffee responds:

Heh... :) going on the iPod huh? - Well depending on where you walk you might need a "breaking into a run to get away from muggers" track right after it.

Several people have suggested vocals but honestly, I'd need to find some help in that area - if I tried to sing I'd just end up screwing up a good submission.

Thanks for the review!