Quarl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Infinity Zone]

Jesus fuck, how am I supposed to go about my day without addressing how cool this is? Blast my phone, will be giving this track another quality listen on my computer later. Creative as usual wax. Got zero criticism for the noisy atonal style <3

[Time to Soar]

It's unfortunate I'm in a situation where I have to listen to this on my phone. That wave form looks nice and well rounded. Can't wait to hear this on some diaphragms that can produce some low end frequencies. Melodies and rhythms are all on point, hella bouncy <3

I guess you can cry about not getting a critical review. Whatever kind of music you set out to make in 2014, you grew into something to be super proud of. I wouldn't necessarily call it a "unique" style and sound but it's definitely a mature style, well thought out, and honestly better than a lot of other stuff out there. Don't let that get to your head though, the world needs role models without huge egos.

Love that clean synth slow down at 1:46 with all of my spleen. Final build up and drop at 4:11, woof. I'm glad you are as happy as you are with this track. I got a few musics that made me feel the same way so I'm happy to share in your joy. Write that funky music Spade :')

Edit: in regards to not being the most "unique sound and style" that's probably not a bad thing. Unique doesn't always translate to good :/

Spadezer responds:

Thoughtful reviews are just as cool as critical reviews, and more fun because they don't have negative comments lol.

Yes I understand about what you mean with unique styles. I've always made it my goal to want to make what I want to make, even between both songs. This also has meamt that I can range from a bunch of genres I'll say with what I've made, which could range from heavier electronic, to lighthearted chipstep like styles, funk, and whatever else is in between. This song in particular though also kind of gravitates to what mostly takes up my playlist on Spotify and resonates withe the most so being able to recreate it, while there genre itself isn't unique, I would think is also a skill of it's own. Not to say I can't put my own spin on it lol

[Human Being, Machine Doing]

Tight noises King. Crisp drum samples, creative panning, tight glitch rhythms. This is what I love to hear from techy idm but I'm not as into the pure ambient sections. Those ambient spots set the tone of the track nicely, intro was great. I just wish there was more of that 4:12 - 6:00 in comparison to all the ambient that surrounds that section. There's like four minutes after that 6:00 minute time stamp I'd have just cut or saved for another track. You play dangerous games by trying to steal 16 minutes of my life King xD

Kingbastard responds:

Thanks for the review, much appreciated. This is a continuous mix of an EP I made back in 2017. There are four tracks mixed into one long piece. The EP is here if you'd like to listen separately;) https://kingbastard.bandcamp.com/album/error

[i made a song using only a soviet era drum machine]

lol, love the creative choices. Can relate to a couple of them. Recently used audacity to change the speed of a track substantially. I loved the new tone but there was a good bit of fidelity loss.

I'm so over critically naming songs. My highschool rock band would name stuff like "The Song That Starts And Stops Alot" or "The Song In Seven Eighth Notes." Cool to hear some very specific hardware get used. I wasn't familiar with the Elista. I would have so much hardware if I had a place to put it :P

ADR3-N responds:

I actually find myself falling in love with emulations of older hardware, done right. It allows me to pack all of that gear and warp it to my heart's content -- and really when we're recording, what are we really doing but digitizing analog. There will be funny things like artefacts and such, but I think emulations give old technology new life. :)

That said I'd love to play with the originals, just to hear them for myself

[Pico's Handbag (Pico Day 2021)]

WOOHOO PICO DAY MONEY. CONGRATS MR NACHO :D :D :D

Sick amen fills and diddles. Grimy vocal pads. Constructive criticism: end on a fade out loop next time. That suddenly chopped ending deserves an edit <3

[Stroll off on a Tangent]

Love those snare rhythms, drums rolls, and aux percussion. Drums are hella tight. Light korg keys padding the track, sexy clavinet chords and melodies, driving bass lines... track is awesome. Love this chill jazz/rock fusion style Czy, hearts and stars <3

[How to Take Complete Control of Everything and Everyone]

You've been here since 2013 and I never noticed? Shame on me, I give you friendships. I give you good feelings. Have this basket full of chocolates. Here are some flowers I found on the ground. You can have them.

Slick breaks, clean synths, jazzy progressions. I could nit pick little mix choices but I don't want to do that. Would rather praise this cool future trance jungle style. It's very unique. It's very good. I love this <3

Cacola responds:

thank you so much <3

[The Witch In The Clocktower]

Saw the "synth witch" tags and immediately thought of my old friend Devyn. She's Djing in Missouri Springfield under the alias "Cyber Witch" but used to go by the name EchozAurora.

Got nothing constructive to add, just wanted to say hi and good work :)

[Mega Arcade Buster]

By contemporary standards I wouldn't necessarily call this "fast paced" but with those classic punchy full bodied DNB snares I'd shrug if this was 150 BPM and just let it happen. We can call it fast paced, I accept it.

Radical guitar solos are a mainstay of newgrounds producers, you'll fit in perfectly here. Was a little surprised to see you've been doing your thing for 17 years but your account has only been around since last year. Witch In The Clock Tower is my new jam <3

I've added you to my follow list, hopefully I'll keep seeing your name pop up :D

[Villain Redux (feat. ThatJohnnyGuy)]

lol, "mad dark nuero roller." Whose been teaching you dnb slang? You have to be from the UK to use the term "roller" in that context. I didn't make the rules, blame Ishkur.

Didn't realize you were in New Mexico, where in? I've been fantasizing about getting a midwest newgrounds meet up together once covid fucks off. I'm in the southwest corner of Colorado. I'm not 100% certain where a proper midwest meet up would go, would probably open that up to conversation in the forums or on my blog?

But your track, it has a lot of that grimy energy from early darkstep. John's vocal samples reminds me of Powerman 5000's late 90's romp "When World's Collide" without the grungy guitars and high energy chorus. Crunchy drums remind me of a Sonic Adventure 2 stage called White Jungle. Track mix could be nit picked a little but that's just a given. Humans have such garbage ears, I wish I could transform just my ears. Become a cat girl. Move into the woods, sleep in the grass and eat fish heads. Yeah.

Sinthology responds:

Thanks, I had fun with this one. It could be louder, I tried pushing the master track more but it started to sound squashed so I left it be.
I feel like a lot of these little genre jargony words are like "squanch" and "smurf", you just say what's in your squanch and people know what you mean.

I'm in Las Cruces but I'm fairly mobile and like to drive to visit people. I have all of the antibodies from my vaccines so I might be making some trips soon. It would be cool to meet some fellow NGers :o