Arponax's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Blemish]

this one big chill piece, i like it. Tbh not sure what could be added.
From what i think is that vaporwave tends to be more blurry than synthwave, it could be cool to have some sort of development where the first part feels blurry, similar to how it is now and it all becomes clearer and more discolike with how the song progresses :D

Anyway good job.

[(NGAIC Layer 2) THE PROJECT (unfinished)]

Oh boy, thats what i call technical dnb, the second half with that plucky bass feels like some cool scifi movie song.

I dunno if youre planning to look at this project sometime and finish it but it could be really cool to just add some spacey fast pluck melody in the second part of the drop.

Anyway really cool concept, has alot of potential.

lilyyan responds:

This is one of my best latest ideas so of course I'm finishing it! I could add a fast plucky melody in the second part of the drop potentially although not entirely sure whether or not I'd necessarily like it. And anyways, thx! Glad you appreciate the track as much as I do.

[FD - Finely Aged Space Cocktail]

Tbh, i never really heard of intelligent Dnb, is there like difference in how the beat changes or the bass?

on the other hand its fun to see how different people imagine basically the same style of music, i like this alot the fact that you developed the bass in the last part and went for more wobbly and distorted sound....the drums you used really reminds me of Prodigy i dunno why XD

did you made the drum break yourself? or used a sample, just curious.

ForgottenDawn responds:

Hey there, thank you! I recently grabbed a bunch of drum breaks and Massive presets from Rhythm Lab. Really neat stuff, highly recommend if you're looking for drum samples that have a dusty, organic quality and have some cash to burn.

It's funny you mention Prodigy because the style I took inspiration from used to circulate around their time (mid-to-late 90's). "Atmospheric", "Intelligent", "Ambient" is all label lingo that refers to the same laidback and more sparse kind of jazzy 90's Jungle/DnB. You can find loads of mixes on Youtube if you look it up. I just made everything sound more lo-fi because I guess that's my thing. Cheers!

[夢幻のStarship]

I already heard it on Discord....but dayum those sounds its just like 80s or 90s music XD.
Youll have to teach me how to make something like that someday :D

One thing that came to mind could be to make some short sequence to just go nuts with those bass slaps, somewhere after the first chorus maybe. :D

Anyway i really like it, great job.

[Cosmic Ocean [8-bit]]

Lol it sounds like some videogamey lullaby XD
The original sounds very nice too btw.

Since its very simple i dont think i could add anything to it, it does its job pretty well. And the fact that its made in FamiTracker i didnt really had patience to learn with it so i respect for that XD

[Robot Transcendence]

really reminds me of those old times ive been listening to NightKilla XD good job.

[rosetta_stone.mp3]

We have a masterpiece in here......

[System of Entropy]

I like the sound design used in this piece.....kinda weird, mysterious and crazy XD

Those changes in atmosphere are surprising and fits a lot in theme (Entropy-i personally imagine some black hole or some kind of technology based on dark matter or whatever :D).

I think this is cool and fun to listen to. I still have to work on my thematic sound designing.

I wish you good luck in new year :D and a lot of fun producing next interesting/weird piece of art.

[Soverlyx]

This track is really cool. I could actually imagine it with some slightly harder staccato strings and brass to further amplify that cinematic feel im getting from it.

Overall this is nice composition, doesnt need to be very aggressive but its not boring. Good job.

Liftek responds:

Thanks! I think that's a good idea, I also like staccato strings but it's hard to make these sounds with the plugin I was using and if I change the plugin I would have to rearrange the circuit structure, also I already like the synths as they are by now but maybe I will make a
remix in the future! Your thoughts are meaningful for me and I only wish you the best! :]