Calamaistr's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

['10 Streets of Rage Round]

Alot of energy, you should do stage 2 track xD (thats my fav)
I remember how streets of rage made me think people really were walking around town like that at night when i had to go to bed (technically they did, appart from throwing lead pipes and knifes around)
-cal

['09 In another life]

What emediately caught my attention is the piano note on 01:33, VERY refreshing :)

The brilliant manual use of echo is also noticed (since i do that myself with piano compositions)

This track reminds me of the final part in the game Journey.

But also makes me daydream of a slowly rising sun on vibrant landscapes.
Its going straight into my favorites. woosh.

-cal.

[2-bits: Alpha and Beta]

I love the hihat so much, also incredimuch dissonance wich does the track good for the atmosphere.
I particular love the 01:15 transition into melody, with the thumps in the background.

The dissonance, need to mention it again, makes this track extremely tragic as if the whole world is on the shoulders of the 'computers, forces it to existential levels.

The aim 'romantic does elude me a bit but i suppose thats because i am not familiar with the game it was made for.

-cal.

(id like to hear something straightforward 8bit from you sometime btw, like a soft true classical piece)

[One Trick Pony]

This is way to cute, pretty fun how basic jazzy melodies can sound good combined with weird hiphop :P

[Rosso]

Emediately caught my attention cause the background during the intro sounds almost identical to one of my old music®ftp works :D (calamaistr's butterfly, its on ng), im very anti dupstep and dupstep influences so i cant say i enjoy the synth effect but overall this track sounds original and very professional. :)

[A Storm Over Lavender Lane]

1:10 and on caught my main attention, not that i dont appreciate fast compositions but i just didnt feel the theme in that part (probably because it felt more like a breeze than a storm), the slow part felt a bit like waking up and opening your front door and meeting a empty street filled with leaves.

:)

headphoamz responds:

Gotcha, some people like it fast and some like it slower. :P

[Chant de l'Eveil]

I cant remember much music from the original legend of zelda, i was still like 10-12 years old back then or so.

But regardless of that, the atmosphere in this piece is sublime. I love the instrument choices, they sound so crisp and natural. Your voice is also very natural.
Most people try to hard to emitt a 'perfect, faultless voice', wich makes it sound artificial. You do not, you just sing wich befits the universe of zelda :)

Ill listen to this again sometime so ill fav it.

greets.
-cal.

Troisnyx responds:

Cheers, thanks a lot for listening! <3 The instrument choices were the closest I could get to match the Eight Instruments of the Sirens in Link's Awakening. I missed out the Conch Horn, unfortunately, but I got the rest of them in. My bodhran seems to be the "Thunder Drum" of this piece, which I'm grateful for.

I'm glad that you love the voice too... while it was painful for me to get the mic to work half the time, I do know that I did enjoy producing it. ^_^

[Blind Maiden]

Im no fan of autotune wich i heard a bit at the start but that aside, this is very original and immersive.
Im not going to say where i could see it in but instead let me say i could simply lose myself in the atmosphere and im sure those are more fitting words.
I also take it you wrote the text yourself,
If i win round 1 i hope im not put against you or ill have to compose a 6 minute long 8bit opera xD

good job and good luck :)
-cal

etherealwinds responds:

There's absolutely no pitch correction or autotune used ^^ I've practised vocal breaks from chest to head and other techniques such as yodels which could be confused as autotune effects. I did indeed, I like to write poetry in my spare time which helps when writing story-like lyrics. You're very kind, thank you and good luck!

[Anthem of the Adventurer]

Its a bit generic, but very clean and proper aswell, good job :)

ChronoNomad responds:

I suppose that everything is basically generic because it's all been done before. Nothing new under the Sun, and all that. Looking forward to your generic entry for this fantastically generic contest! Let's get...generic. :P

Better generic than geriatric, I suppose.

Anyway, thanks for the generic review. Clean and proper seems legit--in a generic sort of way. Without some explanation about what you think is so 'generic' about it, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. :)