LucidShadowDreamer's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Precipice Impediment]

I don't have time to leave a big review atm, but just wanted to let you know I enjoyed the listen :D
This would fit so nicely in a game or a movie!
Keep it up ;)

backwardecho responds:

Thanks so much, LucidShadowDreamer! I'm always happy to receive a review from ya, whether lengthy or brief!^^

[Children of the Circuit]

I said I'd write a review later because I felt like leaving a more proper one, but it has been a while now, and I've been listening to the piece more than I have been writing :)
So I wanted to leave a few words her before I completely forget.
1:51 is soo cool o.O

And after minutes upon minutes of awesome music, the end segments are quite epic!
So many genres included here too :V

I wish I could make something like this :O
The loop is mostly smooth too :)

Actually, the whole track is just so full of super cool effects. And sounds, and even melodies + progressions. The transitions are very effective, and this piece NEVER gets boring.

Seriously, you're incredible for creating such wonderous compositions, so rapidly. This one especially, is a beast to say the least! (#DankRhymes)

Keep it up!!!

zybor responds:

The whole track's theme is about escapism in post-modern society, and we all are living in it. My life, your life, Yuki's life, Jordi's, Mattashi's, Soundchris'... we are all being consumed by it every second, until we are sunk into it so deep that escapism becomes our reality. And we seek for music as a way to escape suffering in the real world. We create our own worlds. The world that cannot be destroy, maybe even after we leave this world.

This is the reason why I prefer to explore music in a unique way, and avoiding to restrain my own exploration upon certain genre or style.

I have to be honest with you. I am tired of this life. Tired of running, hiding, being shamed, being looked down like an animal, being there to always suffer. I wish I had a great life, so I could stop worrying about what time that I gonna line up at food bank for canned corns, or where to bathe at 1 AM. I'm mostly tired of being alone. I can't be myself. I wish.

It's a good thing that I have leukemia. Maybe it's not going to hurt if time come. I hope.

[Ever-Changing]

You're on a roll with creating awesome music lately. Seriously!
The stuff around the 1:30 mark is super cool :O! Same thing for after 4 minutes.
I'm soon going to sleep, so I don't have time to write too much, but I wanted to let you know that I enjoyed the piece ^ ^
As I do all of your music.

Once again, you're amazing at exploring so many different styles!

zybor responds:

Thank you very much for your reviews! :)

[Fly Away]

This is incredibly beautiful!
In every way o.O

I didn't expect such a heavily melodic track from you! Reminds me a bit of Danny Elfman's work. Everything from the synths (arps), the claps (such a simple yet effective beat, btw), the dynamics, strings to the singer harmonise perfectly.

The loop is quite perfect too!

However, I think the render missed something at 2:36. You might want to look into that!

This is, as I said, an incredibly beautiful piece. So if there's a possibility to rerender it, you could make it even more amazing. Wonderful job with this. Really. You're always reaching new heights!
In that sense, I guess you might already be flying.

zybor responds:

Thank you for your thoughtful review! I noticed the cut off but did not have time to record it again. I will fix it sometime this week. :)

[Catharsis]

Really catchy! I like what you did halfway. Anything new which is not exceptionally bad or nonfunctional, is good :)
In fact, I'd say I like the second part, after the breakdown, even more than the first :D

Geoplex responds:

Thanks dude :D I too liked the second part more in the end, I just wasn't sure if the first would end up feeling a bid redundant - especially if people really preferred one over the other.

[What I Couldn't Say]

I love stuff like this. Thus, I love this.

larrynachos responds:

Thanks lsd :)

[Ground Zero]

Congratulations on finishing the album!
There is so much going on here, I don't even know exactly what to say!

The first thing I noticed, are the avant-garde rhythmic elements, that roll on, yet vary throughout the track!
All the atmospheric sounds included are amazing, and you did a good job of blending them all together. It's very pleasant to listen to the track, even if it keeps taking me by surprise. I don't know hom you even manage to come up with all this xD
And an even tougher question, is how you managed to mix and render this? That's quite a feat!

There are lots of interesting transitions too.

All in all, I found the track very enjoyable!
I'd like to ask, what would you describe to be your main inspiration for the track, and the album?

Thanks for sharing!

zybor responds:

Most of the mixes happened in post production so it was quite easy. The synths weren't hard to master and mix, what difficult were the organic instruments, guitars and percussion. The percussions were especially difficult because most of them in low ranges. It was hard to keep everything in place without one drowning another. I recorded this instead of rendering, because my machine could never handle this much data. Took a dozen of different records to get it right.

Mixing was never a problem. Post production like FXs was the hardest part. Had to get the reverb and convolution right for most of them. LFO, distort, lofi, flanger, chorus, stereo, vocoder, delay, phaser... these were what given each sound their own voices. I went lazy with the guitars and applied Guitar Rig on all of them. The arps were auto FX with Movement, Replika XT, Form and Flesh. Form and Flesh are fucking amazing, because you could turn samples into magic. Movement did the rest justice on rhythmic glitches.

The main inspirations came from favorite artists. But also on the high of whatever going on around me, and in this world. The world has come to the end of human civilization. The height of total collapse on both survival and resource. We are not far from extinction. It was always a conscious hunch for it (as you said I'm a master of hunches). But this time it's real.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-04/new-research-tracks-40-year-old-prediction-world-economy-will-collapse-2030

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/looking-back-on-the-limits-of-growth-125269840/#

We are on the end of the ride, and it's beginning to happen. Ground Zero symbolizes everything that we have. If you listened throughout the track, it represents a lot of thing happened in our world. If you wish, I could explain more over Skype.

[Wakey Wakey]

Catchy stuff :O

Satyre responds:

Thanks :D

[Anytown, RPG]

Haha, I definitely know about those towns, and these kinds of tracks xD
As you might remember, Mattashi and I actually composed a similarly themed piece last year, around the same time (not a pixel, aka 8-bit etc. inspired track though).

The style is very true to what an actual piece in a game would sound like! I'd love it if this was used in one (with your permission, ofc). The loop is super smooth, btw.

Well, what more to say. You know I love it ^ ^
A very worthy Pixel Day submission <3

ChronoNomad responds:

I knew you'd know! Gotta love those happy little townspeople and their upbeat homesteads. I had to pop over to your submissions and refresh my memory, but it only took me a few seconds to find the track due to its rather appropriate name. Of course I had to give it a listen, you know...for nostalgia's sake. :D

I certainly wouldn't mind hearing this in someone's game. All they'd have to do is ask! And I'm also pretty jazzed that the loop is nice and smooth. Thanks for saying so!

Really happy to know that you enjoy the track, my friend. High fives all around. Happy Pixel Day!