Cyberdevil's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

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Love the glitch effects in the breaks and bridges, for example around the 1:20 point... so intricate.

The strings that kick in briefly after that are rejuvenating too, and the music overall both lucid and moving. Sound great. Builds and breaks and keeps on going throughout. Rich track overall.

I can't quite make out the vocal samples, they're far back in the mix but... they do mesh well with the track overall, so maybe that's a good thing; they become a part of the bigger picture that way.

Good stuff. The title works well with the quick transitions; diversity.

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[X3ll3n - Bring Out the Flame (NGUAC Finals 2023)]

Energetic, atmospheric, icy and irradiating sound... feels more ice than fire, though the energy's perceivable! I love the tone, I love the build and intro, production quality's on point too...

It does sound a little surprisingly thin considering the loudness though, it's like waveform and actual sound don't really match... interesting. Maybe that's not so much the mix as just the range of notes though.

Good stuff! A remaster would for sure be interesting too.

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X3LL3N responds:

I'd love to remaster it, but it does seem like a gargantuan task and I'm not very knowledgeable on the matter.

Big shame, because I think this really has an identity of its own unlike most of my songs.

[the best Journey]

'The best' sets expectations pretty high initially hmm. :)

It was great for sure, but maybe not all the way there! You hit the notes beautifully though, and the implictation itself, the ode to life that it seems to be... beautiful.

Think you could go for a bit more vocal intensity though? Hold the notes a bit longer, go higher; really get some diaphragm support to convey the motions even more? Feels like a bit more vocal intensity would complete this, really take it to the next level. It's dreamy; it's nice... it could possibly get pretty epic though. ;)

Beautiful song.

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[Everything is Racist]

Ey 2017! XD Even more 2023... and this year, too, 2024 just doesn't rhyme as pure...

I love the very idea of this, and the rap parts in particular, seems you get into a Weird Al kind of tone with those. :) Lyrics are great, arrangement is great, the higher vocal notes feel a little strained but... what a song man.

This was fantastic. Timeless. Though hopefully not, hopefully the term racism won't even compute in the future, much less so the association that something as highly irrelevant as most things claimed to be so could be...

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[FACUNDO GARDIOL - Summer Fan ( Glitch Hop )]

Glitch hop at it's finest, visceral, fluent, with some awesome builds along the way, even that classic 'aw yeah' sample in the mix! :D And the 'woo's and 'go go go's and 'yah's and everything. Respect. It's almost like classic Bomb tha Bass meets the new age. A homage and honing both, the genre better and better with each welter of awesome audial measure.

The wavy glitching sounds almost accordion-like too, it's an interesting effect, fresh and new.

The builds are probably my favorite part about this really, so much atmosphere in this.

And the end... suddenly goes VG and chiptune too. :) Creative fade.

Awesome track!

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SPIRALi responds:

Thank you so much!!!!! :DDDDD

[Emerald Funk]

Getting Nujabes vibes from this one...

Another awesomely jazzy one. Especially towards the end of it. And it has some nostalgia-inducing R&B kind of vibes too with the choppy flow and beat.

Shines like an emerald fo shizzle. Both audial and visceral.

Dope groove; track all the way through.

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[Rainwalker]

Windwalker comes to mind, Daywalker, Walker himself, the Phantom, a lot of walks of life that tie together and seem to annote that great adventure...

This was so awesomely jazzy too. The composition never dulls, and never stalls or stagnates, it stays fluent and vibrant all the way through. Production's on point as well. Rich sound. A bit abrupt an end but I love this!

Time to check out SamPerc hmm!

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[Xtraktor - Shadows]

When you think epic music this is the kind of music that comes to mind. :) I wonder if the vocals were recorded for this as well, or sampled? They fit in so well.

Poweful, tense and terraforming music almost, even before it movies into that refreshingly unpreditable dubstep realm.

And the speed up towards the end! :D That was new.

Feels like a fresh take on the genre this one; a mix of genres maybe... though what even are genres anymore? It's all music. All bridges all. Awesome forms of audio overall.

Nice work. Does justice to the name too...

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[Anj_Octopus]

You have an almost Aesop Rock kind of flow and lyricism man. :) This is impressive. Both lyrically and instrumentally. Timing and annunciation could maybe be a bit more on point sometimes, it doesn't always feel like it follows the instrumental, and I didn't catch all words on the first listen, but overall this is on point!

I wonder if complex word schemes need to be all this complex though? It's impressive to witness, but it seems like complexity maybe trumps meaning; you don't follow the intention or story as much sometimes. With Aesop for example there's often a clear red thread all the way through, even if the subject matter occasionally flies over your (well, MY) head. Here sometimes I wonder if the words are more there to sound good than to really tie things together; they occasionally make it harder to follow along, but maybe that's just me, might need to hone my ears and vocabulary a bit harder... I do love the theme. It does have a red thread.

Good stuff anyhow! Production quality's on point too.

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Anjovi responds:

Thanks bro! Aes is definately an inspiration of mine. While I normally find that he's too dense for me to fully immerse myself in, I can definitely see his genius and find myself able to fixate on single lines from him and get deal of inspiration.

This song was interesting as I normally don't go as verbose with the vocabulary and occult references, but the theme had this beckoning for them I found. Kind of got to have fun and pull up references and moods that stuck with me from my exploring of the conspiracy theory circuit/circus. While there is a meaning attributed to those funkier words, there definitely is an element of fun and aesthetic, but the theme seemed to call for it so I felt ok leaving it in that murky (giving it more that popcorn type lyricism than the more deep/profound).