Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sois Side Soldier v2]

rurprpururu[rprprrrrrr

:) pur

Reanu-Keeves responds:

LOLOLOL

[Blades of Hattori Hanzo]

nadnadnaddan

haha, i just went through kill bill again with the gf for her first time. those hattori hanzo swords are mad good. not sure if that was what you were referencing but that's what i got. loved hearing this man, really classic sounding tune. im not sure why but i think my browser is glitching up a bit. the player is pausing every half second or something. problem on my end. i had to download to listen to this the way it was meant... it made interesting syncopations though :p

the flute was perfect sounding. nice samps/ patches. the piece is really good and i can't really find anything negative to say about it. i would have thrown a really dirty synth in there that would just go WOOOOOOOMP UMP UMP WEEEEEEEEEET DOOTILY DOOT DOOTILY DOOT then loop x 10 but that's just me. also, that would probably require changing up the entire song... can i haz midi files? :3 :3 :3

S3C responds:

Ha nice! Yeah good catch, the title is inspired by Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill. Great film(s)!

Thanks for the review, Quarl! yes you can haz midi files, just shoot me a PM with your email and I'd be happy to send! Thanks again.

[Age Old Question]

thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

ill be honest, ive never actually checked out your music and if i have, i don't remember. im glad i decided to pop in. this shiznit is really slick. that rhythm, so fucking weird. normally i wouldn't want to accent every quarter note in an idm piece but you pulled it off so well. the track builds up and breaks down so awesomely too. how you managed to repeat the recipe several times over within six minutes without losing my attention... fucking awesome.

i love this/ you.

InvisibleObserver responds:

You are a bum-tard. I'm not just here for show.

... Oh wait.

[Dub Tales]

lol

i was gonna ask if dumbstep could be 4/4 and still be dumbstep but that ending completely took me by surprise. at first i thought it shifted into 5/4 but now im not sure whether it was just a mild syncopation or a cross rhythm or wut. did you just move the snare around? what happened there? sounds fucking delicious whatever you did. everything else sounds clean as shit too. im in love.

ps, that title is fucking great :)

Reanu-Keeves responds:

Yeah most of it was in 4/4 so I kinda cheated, but I liked the groove. I did change it to 5/4 near the end to mix it up a bit, but also kept a few of the 4/4 clips in there for fun. So it is sorta a cross rhythm or watever

[|\||_| Stardust [Hardstyle]]

happy review!

this is pretty much perfect for what you set out to do. i might recommend spending more time on your moozicks but then i'd be a complete hypocrite and it's not like spending more time on this would make it any better. good work good sir :)

Numi responds:

I'm very glad you enjoyed the track, sir =D

And yes, I do need to put more time/effort into my mooziks... but I'm just so damn lazy xD

[Cerulean Monk]

YAR

I don't play guitar so I'm not sure if this will be helpful at all but my friend once described guitar melodies as shapes. Maybe try thinking of your solos as just a juxtaposition of shapes? Dunno. Thought I'd try. In any case I like what you did with soro/monk. It's a nice mixture of jazzy tones and riffs. Love monk :)

S3C responds:

Havent heard from you in a while, Quarl. and thats an interesting way to look at improvisation, i'll have to give it a shot. Thanks for the review!

[Liscense to Buy a Dog]

maw

Reanu Keeves... good man. I loved him in Till and Bed.

Reanu-Keeves responds:

best review evar

also thanks for the song title idea

[Blue Monk - Backing Track]

dopdddddffffff murnk

I've been going through a big monk phase lately so it was a nice surprise to hear this in the weekly tops. I've got nothing negative to say soro. thanks for doing this.

also, if you take requests do epistrophy. tis my favorite of his :P

sorohanro responds:

:)) Nice phase you got there :))
Anyway, for now just the simple things, then the more complex.

[SR - U Madstep]

OLOLOLOOLOOLOLL

This is actually kind of funny. Something about this song tickled my dick. I think it had something to do with the syncopations. It feels like such a fun fucking trip to be dragged around in dubstep by that 9/8.

LICK

SineRider responds:

tank you quarl :D

[{dj-N} A Mad Mess [MD2010]]

arktaves

Sick track! Massive sound. That bass was crazy wide. Those octaves sounded nice but the first time I heard that part I thought the track was clipping. I realized though that it was just the way the hats sounded.

On clipping, the track noticeably clips when your using that lfo. I'm not sure why they do that but for that brief instant where the lfo is introduced/ creates that clip you can automate a duck in the synths volume to evade it. At times that little sound becomes kind of nice though. It adds a nice little rhythmic step. Dunno, your call.

Again, massive sound man. G'luck in the comp sir :)

dj-Nate responds:

Yeah, I hear what you're talking about... I'll definitely have to mess around with it and fix that, thanks for the tip Quarl!