sYrge's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Xtrullor - Paradigm Shift]

Great track! Your bass variation, patterns, stereo and phase effects, and their design in general make the entire drop interesting. It's a consistent theme, vibe, and drum rhythm creating a steady pace of music, but the sounds and everything i already said about creates a feel of not knowing exactly what's going to come next, which keeps my listening to the whole song. Great mix too. The drums are powerful while still allowing the sounds to shine through nicely. Great job, man :) always looking forward to your releases <3

[Climate Change? No That's Just Capitalism!]

I perfectly agree with the description, which I read while listening to the beginning of the song (which fits amazingly, by the way). I can imagine Morgan Freeman or something narrating those words along with that background music. nice job :)

zybor responds:

Thank you for your response. :)

[Koraii - Forerunner]

breaks are so clean, melody flows nicely. I honestly have nothing to say about this, amazing work man <3

KORAII responds:

thanks bud <3

[Intro to Hell]

Pretty cool! You are getting better, I agree with cannon. Your synths are nice sounding and well mixed. I could use some more atmosphere/reverb (maybe both) but otherwise cool song :)

[Golden Funky Groove]

Wow! Great work man :)

[Xtrullor - Authority]

Damn, bro I love how impactful this. The flow is absolutely mindblowing and your sound design is on point. I just think that the mids are a bit lacking at times and maybe they, along with the highs, could have some more stereo. Other than that, I really enjoy this :) Great work man!

[Dead-End Everlasting]

Nice work :)

SynthGoddess responds:

Thank you very much~

[SVMMIT - Unlike You]

I really like this :) good job!

[Far Light]

I really like this song, actually. it's not what I would normally listen to, but I don't mind the lack of substantial evolution because I could listen to this in the background while doing other things. But I don't see why you're getting worked up about genre boundaries. Adding melody to a specific genre doesn't take it out of the realm of music or insult the genre. I really wish people would stop getting stuck in their idea of specific, clearly defined genres and just make the music that comes to their head, not try to fit it in a perceived genre. I like the artists that label all of their music as "electronic" because it matters what the music sounds like, not exactly where it's categorized. What are you even trying to get him to accomplish by sending him a youtube video? Trying to get him to "understand the genre?" You don't need to "understand a genre" to know what feels right in music or what would sound good, so I don't know what your idea of "real electronic music' is.

Sequenced responds:

I'm glad you like this, sorry for the really really late reply.
If I wanted to make something more melodic, I wouldn't be making it under techno.
The reason why labeling everything " electronic" would be bad because as a DJ you ABSOLUTELY need everything to be categorized.
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If I'm playing a deep groovy house set for 1hr/30mins, I need all of the songs to blend in together. If someone labeled a track "house" but it actually turns out to be mainstream big room garbage, its going to ruin the vibe instantly and you will lose the rhythm and flow of your mix..

It's like if you were making a Drum n bass mix and you want to put a progressive house track in it, it just wouldn't work.

I love labeled genres. It helps me weed out tracks I do not want to listen to and it helps DJs collect their music for shows.

And yes, a lot of electronic genres require SOME acquired taste. In fact, I even want people to be come more opinionated about the music they want to listen to. Sure it can be elitist but with that passion can spawn a lot of new talent in any sub genre of electronic music.

[I Love You All]

I've never in all my life heard a song with this chord progression. Never!! It's amazing that even the vast majority of your no-music-production-basis fans don't seem to notice the awful high frequencies that, I'm not even kidding, I have a literal headache from. The production, however unendurably generic the arrangement and music is, is kinda decent, with exception of the almost complete lack of sidechain which makes the snare sound like a sine pluck. The melody is annoying and only adds to the mess of high frequencies. Everything else has basically been said in windlux's review

Plus, 12 year old is generally used as a euphemism for a noob or whatever other terms are associated so don't even try with that "technically 8% of my fans are genuine 12 year olds so you are 92% incorrect" it's pretty obvious what he means by the term 12 year old

F-777 responds:

Ye i agree with this review 100% iv improved a lot since tho :D.

And ANYONE who uses the term "12 year old" as an insult its being
extremely ignorant. But the point was he was insulting my fans with the
term.

My point was not to hate on everyone else and especially just for their age.
Keep the hate on me. He should of just called me a n00b then.

No one seems to get that I agree with most bad points on my tracks XD.
I just don't get the hate on my listeners.

Anyways your review was on the music part was fair! Thanks!
its been a few years since this track and people pointed out the highs.

In the next 4 albums I did it was much better. If your interested I would
check out Viking Dance Machine the album!

(Chinese Dance Machine 2 tho i screwed some highs again so im going
through re-mixing them)