SpoonMix's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Infatuation]

Reminds me of an artist I used to listen to -- Plus-Tech Squeeze Box... Maybe it's time to revisit them. Hopefully, they're on Spotify... I really love this! ..the ending, wow! Brilliant..

[Underground - Extended Vocal]

I remember I was into DMC DJ contests when I was young.. Spinning real vinyl records.. I remember being blown away! I wonder how that has evolved (checks YouTube).. are there turntablists on NG?

* I wish I knew how to dance.. The best I can do is when I move while playing bass or guitar with my band

[LL (Old) - Sunshine Slaughterhouse (Reinjection)]

I'm no stranger to industrial music because of my friends. We had different musical tastes, bonded together by cannabis. The genre isn't popular, but they released an album a long time ago. They're more of a darkwave industrial group...

[LL (Old) - End It All]

You've grown and evolved with your music for sure. Were you already making stuff like your present works back in 2017? I'll be honest, not feeling this as much as your newer stuff... Still a 5. Maybe your newer stuff should be a 6, but there's no 6... maybe in 32 bit there is

...that gunshot in the end. Ugh! Yeah, suicide is disturbing, 100%

[The Tridecahedron Blood Summoning - Insanity Abstract Emerges]

Ok, this time I was prepared... I knew there'd be a creepy voice, and it's not just in my head (wait, was it?)

[As Screaming Shadows Consume Us]

My only hope is that this creature doesn't show up in my dream and turn it upside down... I mean, music is music, but adding the visual... whoo. Stuff for movies. You must be a rockstar in the movie industry...

LD-W responds:

Ayy thanks! Yeah I composed this piece last year based both around the artwork inspiration, alongside the inspiration of being underneath a hallucinatory 'Paralysis Demon' styled sleep-paralysis episode from start to finish. Haven't been able to get into any scoring for film types of work yet, although I'd love to give it a go

[Lament Of Dissolving Angels]

Thanks for the share, LD. Yeah Trois was right, this can be disturbing. There's so much depth in this piece. I hate that instead of listening, I was trying to figure out what scale you were using... It sounded similar to the 'Lord of the Rings' opening theme, but dipped in acid. Don't tell me the correct answer, but it sounds like you were mixing up harmonic minor scales. Maybe one day I'd be able to compose using those :D

LD-W responds:

Telling you anyway since there's abit more going on than at first glance ;) The main pad was recorded live in Half-Whole Diminished, with said pad having two LFO's (one per layer) in a sine-pattern shifting the microtuning up and down by around half a semi-tone to somewhat throw listerners off what it really is haha

Half-Whole Diminished is pretty easy to remember tbh: it's just three different 8-key scales, with all the other 'modes' just being alternative starting points for those three scales. You could probably to learn how to compose & improv in that, in a day at most

[Safe in Sound]

I think the level is fine, especially for a track like this. it's beautiful... It got me soaring

[Necroswamp Abomination]

02:15 Amazing transition (all transitions are) 120GB of RAM! gulp! That's a lot (my workaround is to print to audio, I only got 16GB lol). Do you work with the piano roll or do you use notation? You are a genius! Beautiful work!

LD-W responds:

Thanks for checking the track out! Glad you like it

Yeah I'm an FL user and I do everything from a mixture of mouse & MIDI Live Recordings at high speed to get down thousands of notes per hour for these kinds of projects. Lead lines @ all speeds (including Legato's) are all typically done live at a lower buffer size straight from my MIDI Keyboard, and I'll do any manual stuff via mouse at a higher buffer size for extra CPU-overhead when processing everything later on (mouse-notasted stuff is always done after live-leads for me)

I tend to stack as much RAM as physically supported in my system so I can avoid having to bounce audio down to WAV's (one of my pet peeves in audio processing as a whole), to the point that I've got plans to get a second rack built up so I can double-up my total capacity again for some enormous projects in the future which make this AIM track look small ;)

[vertigo⅄sea]

Hey, so I want to try to build upon your work if I can, is that ok? If I make something good I'll post it on Newgrounds... If :D

nascene responds:

yeah sure you can remix my stuff if you want just give credit yada yada yada