Khuskan's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rucklo - is Khuskan´s mother]

:o

true story.

Before you get pwned, you have full permission to use that track :-P

Rucklo responds:

Of course, I am your mother, besides you´re not of legal age yet... meaning I pwn you >:(

[Time for Bed - vocal edit]

Disturbingly relaxing

An awesome mix, clean cuts and sounds really.. natural.

Any chance of a translation?

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

obscenely relaxing yes. i had nothing to do with any production on this track cept for some of the wierd fx on the bridge vocals.
translation, dunno, can't remember all of it, been a whilse sinse i recorded em. is a token cheesy love sone tho 'confuse u for an angel...an angel' and all that jazz. wintang has a semi complete version tho if ur interested.
nice 1
;ped

[SQ in G min - I. Largo (3:33)]

Nice

For a mathematically based song, that sounded very tuneful. What was the compositional system you used?

WinTang responds:

On every beat, one of the instruments plays a central D that lasts for a beat-and-a-half. Thus, every other eighth, two D's are heard. It's not numerical math, I'd say it can be viewed as a very simple recursive formula. It severely limited the compositional freedom, though :)

Every first beat is the cello, second is the viola, third and fourth are the violins.

Thanks for the review!

[Pascal and Prime]

Math-o-lisious

It got zero'd pretty quick, and I can't say i'm suprised, mostly because to somebody who isn't expecting it could put them off quite a bit.

Even though the melody seemed random at first, when the (UNRANDOM) drums kicked in, it was suprisingly musical.

After all, what is music if not a series of mathematical patterns?

Oh and by the way, you need to do a bit of mastering on that bass drum, its causing clipping.

[EPIC YP 1]

I'm shocked

To be complete honest I came here a bit closed minded, gathering it was going to be like the rest of the 'hip hop' crap on the portal.

Ok, so I'm not the biggest fan of hiphop, but this had some amazing qualities that really do shine through, such as the mainly orchesteral layout, and the use of the cello as a strong bass.

Good job.

YoUnG-PrOdiGy-LA responds:

Oh, wow, that really means a lot to me, seeing how its my personal quest to change the face of hiphop. I have been musically trained since 6 years old, so I try to incorporate all of my gifts. Thanks for listening!

~YP~

[Gospel for dummies - demo]

Woahhhh

Yeah, this HAS got voted down pretty badly, even my 5 only got it up to a 2.5...

Could do with a little verb on that rhodes, and the playing was a little regular, a touch of shuffle wouldnt have gone a miss. Also there were a few tiny mischords.

Not sure about the impro at the end though, at some parts it just sounded like you were whacking the keys with your hands.

Anyway, keep it up, rhodes is an awesome instrument once you get it right.

WinTang responds:

Thanks for the 5 Khuskan!
I'm not nearly done with this, so your input will be put to good use.

[Death By Overdose--_--(2:51)]

Righty ho!

I don't have much time, so I'll write this 'view as I listen, and I probably won't be able to cover the whole thing.

Start sounds very glitchy, which is good, and interesting. I love how the high end buzz turns into the bass, then cuts of into a tape effect. Very effective use of breaks here to emphesise the change. The slide on the bass seemed to start a semitone too low though, but the second slide I heard dosn't have the same problem.

I'm starting to feel it could have done with a stronger chord sequence. The pattern at the moment is very simple, and has an awesome beat but could do with a little more variation. Also, the melody has just come in and it's very, very quiet compared to the other instruments.

I think the most shining feature of this track is you have introduced a lot of new stuff to the genre, and also those marvelous false endings. There are so many times the track seems to be finishing, but them makes a suprise comeback. Thats a great example of arranging right there.

Good job, mr Z ;D, 5'd from me.

[TJS-Latino Casino]

RAAAVE!

I hope you don't mind me saying it was pretty cheesy, which was awesome in it's own way. It had a great early 90's techno feel. It's rare these days to hear a techno song in a major key.

The melody that came in shortly after the start sounded, i dunno, like some sort of kids TV show.

Nice mixing you got there, make more :D

itsameyayo responds:

The whole point was to make it happy, kinda makes you feel like a kid again, ya know?

-You no rateth my song? ; (

-Lol, jk. It would be nice if you rated my song though : )

-Thanks for the review! And yeah, it was kinda meant to be cheesy as well, lol!

-SuperDrummer146

[XI-Vengeance]

Loveeeeeely

The start was awesome, although I feel you could add a slight fade in on the leading pad/bell thing, as it seemed to start very suddenly.

Also, this is too slow for drum and bass, this is more ambient. Actually I take that back, I just got to the dnb bit ;-)

Prehaps you should think of some faster basslines though, more notes in the pattern if you get what I mean. Good job with the filters in this section.

As far as mastering goes, it was great, the drums were clear, and went well with the synth. I feel it could do with a stronger kick drum though...

Well done :D

The-XI responds:

Stronger kick drum? Aw man, the kick was nearly distorting the compression job I did... :(

Trust me, the EQ is there.

Thanks for the review!