Ericho's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Xkur Top Secrut Preview!!!!!!!]

Overall good fun

I have been hearing a lot of these songs lately and I do still manage to find a good amount of variety. It is especially interesting to note how this one seems to really stick with a single theme. It does help it is a fairly short song (or at least in comparison to a lot of other songs). Were you referring to a preview for a new song or a preview for a new cartoon or game you are working on? Either way, this should work out well for it. This one actually went in reverse and briefly stopped around 0:33.

[RA 3- Lady Fury (DFR Dnb]

So clever

It goes on a little too long, but it is still tons of great fun to listen to. I think this works so well because it is a song that really knows how to experiment with its theme. I had little idea what was going on at all, as it just seemed to be jumping all over the place. There are some slower parts, some parts full of tense, some repetitive parts and just lots of stuff going on. It would be difficult to simply tell of a single sound effect that I found the best. I think it might be the parts where it sounds eerie.

[xKore - Cries (FL Core)]

Quite moving

I am so glad you managed to give the website such great things like this. Maybe not the best, but certainly a song worth listening to. I keep listening to all of the eerie voices of children that are played throughout the whole song. It was especially funny because the tone itself did not come across as particularly frightening to me. This technique you and other people use of pausing in the middle and then building back up is really cool. The tone also changes after these pauses.

[Piano vs Violin]

Quite stylistic

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this because it was just great to hear it live up to its title. I used to play the piano all the time when I was a kid, but I eventually stopped doing it. I never tried the violin, so it is interesting to hear a comparison. The kind of music that is played on both instruments is great in itself. It feels as though you were looking to create a battle in a medeival atmosphere. Some of the notes are drawn out, but this helps to increase the amount of emotion you hear in the song.

Drawoh responds:

wow, nice description
Thanks :D

[xKore - Syntax]

More aware of holidays

I should know by now that holidays on Newgrounds also happen to have a lot of audio submissions related to them. I really liked how this one tried to be far apart from the standard. It is admirable to hear something that breaks out of repetition like this. I do not know how well you did in the contest but I do hope this came in fairly high. It is weird how it seems to simply change its tone in the middle of the song, rather than stop completely like it seems at first. It also seems to give a more mystical feeling towards the end.

[MechanicalThunder RobotDay2010]

Works well

I think this works quite well because it seems to really partake in its repetition. There are still variants, but it really seems to stick with what it does best. I appreciated all the effort put into this and those weird sounds I heard. I can definitley understand how you were going for a robot theme and I hope you had as good a robot day as I did. It seems like a robot is continually saying, "Da na na" or something like that. It gives me the feeling of jutting out in different areas for some reason.

[~|| Last Resistance]

A mighty force!

I simply loved listening to this because it had such a wonderful shattering aura to it. What I mean is that it really tried to break the boundaries other songs set for themselves. It is a great holy song and it is strange to know that it came from a HipHop track! Overall, it truly brings the listener on both an epic journey and a spiritual journey. It fits up to its name as it gives off a true sense of force and deviance. It even seems to wonder off a few times only to come back to its full strength.

[[8bit] because she said "no"]

Some theme!

I was amazed at how much of an original theme you were able to turn this into! It was especially fun because I got the feeling of a broken romance or some deep thing like that. While the title certainly helped in giving me that idea, what matters is that you convey such strong emotions with such simple music. I can tell it is 8-bit style, but still very well done. It certainly fits your description as it really jumped around in the beginning. It comes off as less aggressive as it goes giving a more casual style.

[Alert! (MadnessDay2010)]

It's got me revved up

I certainly am not going to be able to wait for this year's Madness Day! I guess I should spend more time on the audio portal to realize that it is also Madness Day for that part of the website, too. I like how this has such a spooky melody. It seems like it is something that could be appropriate for so many different themes. It could have easily been released as a Halloween style story, but MD is pretty near to Halloween anyway. It does not work so much on Madness in action, but in scariness.