phosphorusprocedure's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Be Patient[caution:silly]]

Love the vocals. The track is so blunted.

[Inspiration]

OOH shit I'm digging this.

[-GM- Canary Out the Cage]

Real dense. Love the quick piano scale that pops in throughout. Flutes are dope. Reminds me of Large Professor type shit.

[Rising 7 (Not Sure If)]

OOH sounds like Big Poppa. Really smooth vibe going on. I think the hi hats in the 2nd half were a bit loud, but otherwise I really dug the drum sounds. Synths sounded very warm and elegant.

xxxZigZagxxx responds:

True that. Thanks for the feedback, I'm re-editing the song right now.

[Robot Lullaby]

Reminds me of the Portal 2 soundtrack. Kinda hypnotic. Really like the bassline that comes in around 1:10. Or low voiced detuned synth, or whatever it is. The part at 1:46 is really cool too, with that descending motion to it. Some of the sounds got kinda grating, though a bit more EQ would probably alleviate that. Otherwise, quite cool.

[.annihilator.]

Ooh, I dig it. The lead synths remind me of 1997-era Boards of Canada, while the drums remind me of the retro zones from Super Meat Boy. Really cool combination. Mixed really well, too. Good shit, man.

VegetarianMeat responds:

I love Boards of Canada. Definitely a favorite of mine, so your comparison here makes me feel good, heh!

Thanks!

[New Spin Attack]

Ooh shit, this is the best rapping I've ever heard you do. Between this and the Alchemist's Beginning, I think you sound a lot better on fast beats. So much energy. The beat's great, too. Dig the part 2 minutes in when it all goes all Voodoo People with that synth.

[Aphelion]

I like those cool Elektrobank-esque traffic noises throughout. The ocean splashing was an interesting touch. It was odd how the ocean wasn't panned much at all (so I visualized staring right out into the ocean, scarcely moving), but lots of the low-frequency stuff was panned quite extremely, which gave me the sensation that I was spinning around in a room as I was listening to it (this sound is in my left ear, now it's in my right ear, etc), and the 2 sensations felt at odds at certain points. That might just be flanger or something. I have no idea. I would imagine listening to this on speakers would sound amazing.

Mich responds:

Hey, thanks!

Those noises and ocean splashing are a result of a whole bunch of LFO linking in Native instruments' Massive; I was't trying to emulate any particular sound there, just going with what sounded nice to me. So there was no particular intention for it to sound like ocean waves or anything. I've had that comment before though.

I have indeed played with some stereo manipulation for some of the sounds here, mostly in the form of heavy re-verbs and phasers. I may have over-done it a bit.

I personally think it does sound decent on speakers, yeah. =)

Thanks muchly for the review, and I'm glad you liked it!

[Brave enough]

Huh. Reminds me more of bossa nova than funk. It might be the choice of chords. That is, until 0:50. Then it sounds like one of those odd indie rock songs. I don't know how to categorize this track at all. 1:24 bass solo was very surprising. Dug the "yeah" ad-libs sprinkled throughout that. Definitely a cool singing voice. Reminds me of that David Sylvian album Secrets of the Beehive.

IIPhase responds:

I had trouble to put it in a genre. ?
But i really like the compliments you are giving me :D
I am very happy about that!

[DOTM - 4 - the world.]

1:25 to 1:33 was real elegant. The chord progressions flow well, but I think some of the chords themselves have voicings a little too low. There's this weird buzzy oscillation thing going on when two many low notes play on that synthesizer. Then again, it might be something you're going for. It has an interesting dystopian effect to it. I have a question: at this point, this batch of tracks you've made sounds like the soundtrack to a game that doesn't exist yet. What kind of game do you think it will be? I imagine you're envisioning something in your head when you write these tracks.

Calamaistr responds:

First off, i do always go for whatever i upload :)
Everything people wrote a review and talk about things that sound wrong and try to make me correct something i chuckle a bit so im glad you thought of it cause i never upload (atleast nothing recent) a work in wich theres a mistake i could easily fix, the oscillation is 100% intentional, i try to go for new sounds through synergy in 8bit all the time, since i work with a rather small amount of soundbits that i can only tweak minimally when i make chiptunes i have to combine some noises so they automatically start to conflict and create a new sound from it. Thats what i succeeded at in this track :)

As for the game, i can only post it in this section since there is no genre for this music, if there was a general chiptune genre to select i would put it there :)
But maybe also so its easier for gamemakers to get inspired and want to use my music wich has happened more than once mind you :)

What i invisioned is pretty much what i tried to write down in opera form, afterall this is a 8bit opera about my idea of what would happen if all electornics would become sentient, this idea started naturally with the album 'the machine', i elaborated on it in 'back to the machine', this last album 'dream of the machine' is more about the waking of the machine and why the world went to hell because of the so called 'browser', the antagonist entity of the series.

thanks again.
-cal.
(hope this helped)