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[moderntragedy]

Horrible.

Nah, it's great.

The beginning wasn't my favorite, a little bit too uhm, mushy, seems to serve little purpose but to trick people into believing the whole track will consist of arpeggios that make no apparent harmonic sense :P
I love that sentence I just typed.

But,

it becomes very, very adorable after that. Kickass beat and swell vocals. Lovely jazzage in the rhodes chords, gives it a lot of melancholy and makes it lean a little towards Portishead - good thing IMO.

Yeah, lovely track again. You really have a great arsenal of instruments and use them really well. Post some lyrics in your reply though, I'm really curious what the hell you're singing about :)

5, download. Check my new track out too.

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

respec the tjeerd,
for the record i hate that sentance...
lyrics -

i thought i told u not to put that up ur nose
coz 1 day u'll start flying

(the voice of drugs)-
yo,
good to see y'all here
i see y'all walkin around
i've seen y'all b4 now
and i can gaurantee i'll see y'all again

no matter what i say
i'll see u there again x4

through my hardened eyes i see, the glaze on one, crab hands on another
interspaced rushes, good vibe, no hushes
this i can love but the grab is one that i can't abide
if clocks weren't there and all societies cages
think about the image and what it so implies
travels would be undertaken daily, bonds formed strongly

part2

u know just where ur headed next
balcony, a street, just not on me
and it don't matter to us anyway
if i lean on u, just lean on me

(spoken)
i'd just like to say er
thankyou all for coming errr
hope u had a good time
got really fucked
and errrr yeah

jesus christ i'm flying
no i ain't lying
pupils dilated like gates to hades
gief my shadeys
and pass my hat and my tie
i'm ready to hit the floor
so come and laugh at the fool
who's sketching out like a tool

and join me if u please
and don't u call the police
coz no 1 needs that when they're spooning out
so pass my hat and my tie
i'm ready to hit the floor
so come and laugh at the fool
who's sketching out like a tool

out of my way if u would

;ped

[F,M.F.I.H.F.O.T.B.T]

Zeroed by cunts. Fived by happy cunts.

As it happens I've just been enjoying some well-crafted dutch White Widow weed (www, l0lz), and I couldn't have picked a better state of mind to listen to this new tune of yours.

I have to hit Backspace way too much tho.

Anywho, one of your most simplistic tracks, somehow it works wonders. The title is almost as good as the time I came up with "Birthdays of people you're not particularly interested in". :D

It has the Sigur Ros and Mogwai elements all over again, the glassy synth, the shards of flanger, the monotonous muffled drums, the arpeggiated overdriven guitar. Also made me think of Grandaddy btw.

But enough comparisons, the song is definitely an original pitbulljones, it makes me see things, and stuff. Lol. I crack myself up sometimes.

Not the best you've ever done composition-wise, but a great exercise in pure atmosphere.

I really can't think of anything useful to say, I keep making paragraphs and they don't ever seem to end properl

Here's a five and go check on my new tune, which I think is pretty good.

pitbulljones responds:

haha a stoner review, brilliant. i don't think i can take much from that review tbh but i think you liked the track XD sigur ros and mogwai again hmmmmm possibly, not so much as on others tho. anyways thanks for the 5.

pitters

[Pascal and Prime]

Great job!

A mathematical piece that worked well. Kudos on choosing a mean synth for the lead, if you're gonna make it sound unconventional, might as well do it right :)
The groovy drums really help it escape from just the concept. It's not for the faint of heart, but I can certainly enjoy it! 5/5!

Heard mine yet?

[Khuskan - Prelude in Pi]

Pi

Excellent idea and worked out very nice. The 10 phrases are easily remembered and recognized, and apart from a few pretty blunt pitch changes they follow each other smoothly.

It's true that the repetitiveness is inherent to the format you're using, but I'd say this can really go places if you apply more pi-rules to different musical elements.
For example, dynamics: you could have 3 phrases piano, 1 phrase fortissimo, 4 phrases mezzoforte, 1 phrase pianissimo, 5 phrases forte, etc. You could put accents, staccatos, whatever, all following pi.

The greater the conceptual virtuosity, the livilier the piece will become. This might just be the blueprint for something legendary, if you put enough thought into it you can easily make it last 20 minutes and every note will be exciting

Khuskan responds:

I'm seriously loving your dynamics idea. I'm inspired to take this and compose it for orchestera using a similar idea to that, maybe even steming off into time or playing style. The only problem that i'm having at the moment, and the cause for the 'blunt pitch changes' is geting all the parts to merge together but yet still be playable by the performer. Theres some pretty extreme jumps in there already - difficult yet not impossible.

[A Mad Karmic Stat Disc]

My last review before submitting to sleep

This is pretty damn great again, nicely loose... loved the scratchy synth and the sparse pad snippets. Mastering is wonderful as usual!

But I feel it should've really climaxed in the end... I'd been waiting (by no means impatiently) a while for that breakbeat to get in full gear and craved for some really heavy hypnotizing D'nB action, full on bass, gradually increasing dynamics Underworld-style. That I might bob my head, close my eyes and pretend I'm having an LSD trip.

Probably not what you intended though. Oh well :)
5/5 anyway.

Off to bed I am.

LJCoffee responds:

Maybe a longer piece would help - If would definitely need all of the above if it were another 3 or 4 minutes longer.

As for intention - there really wasn't any :D - I just sort of poured it all into a bowl and shook it a little - baked it at 350 for 20 minutes and this is what came out. Sort of a musical quiche I s'poze...

WinTanks !!!

[Pat Methenystique]

The name is Beck... Jeff Beck

Wonderful. Hammond work is ace. Guitarwork is perfect. Great to see you put so much thought in details again, like the various drum fills, the little modulations. Overall structure is wonderful. I've heard Pat Metheny a few times, quite liked it but found some of it to be a little overproduced. I can't say that for this piece - it has, to quote another great musician, "everything in its right place".
Your music is so transparant man, I can hear everything you're doing, wishing I'd thought of it myself. I'm a fan.

sorohanro responds:

thanx
as usual, a very nice review with very kind words for my music ...
thanx again
structure was a work in progress, i started this and after the guitars were recorded i felt that is somehow empty and i made the middle part (bridge, "B" theme... whatever)
weyrd way to work ...

[Ethnography]

Priceless.

This is just utterly brilliant.
I'm just going to deviate from my habit of pointing out the individual components of songs. Everything is well-placed. It grooves me to death. It's melancholy, funkiness and Middle East propaganda combined :)

Priceless.

sorohanro responds:

LONG LIVE TO PROPAGANDA !!!

[Blue Ballz]

Yeah. Yeah. YEAH!!

I owe you some reviews, good sir. I've been listening to your stuff already, and it's really some of the best I've come across. You have talents on many platforms and the productive skills to back them up.

As for this track, great work: it's very funky, and rich on detail. Somewhat cheesy in parts which only adds to the fun. Hints of Zappa, and Beck, and maybe even a little Basement Jaxx :)

Highly enjoy your stuff man, I think I already fived all your tracks, but I'll doublecheck! Keep submitting, you'll eventually get famous here. And probably even outside of Newgrounds.

sorohanro responds:

thanx for the very nice review.i was in Lithuania for one month ,so i didn't had time to respond to reviews and check on works,but now...hehe...now!!!
thanx again

[[[=Please (REMIX)=]]]

gasp.

Hey!
This is very nice!!

The vocals are decent, unconventional which is always applaudable, even though I don't particularly like them. :)
The arrangement is wonderful and I love these swaying 6/8's. You found a nice balance between synths and (probably semi-)real instruments, and the mastering is very thorough. The drums are great.

Great job, you're a find!

5/5!

Nostrap responds:

Coming from you that means a lot :)

[Clam]

One-line summary

My head spins from all the name changes. Ok, Syntrus is ZeroLevel from now on :)

I can be short about this song, I liked all elements except for the drums. They were too loud and too aggressive, mainly the clap... I'd have much preferred some reverbed or otherwise muffled breakbeat type of stuff.
Otherwise, there's lots to enjoy, the vocoder snippets and delayed synths are very cool.

Keep em cominnnn

Syntrus responds:

You know it dude