ForgottenDawn's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Lucid]

Welcome back, Step. Missed your music. c:
I hope we can catch up someday. I'm glad you made this piece. Very pleasant and well produced. This easily slips into my favorites.

Step responds:

FD! It has been a while! Really glad that you enjoyed the piece, especially since I can always trust you to be honest about what you think.

Hope things are going well on your end. Thanks a lot for the review!

[Abstract Land]

Bella! Industrial, ma allo stesso tempo molto organica e spaziale. Hai avuto modo di lavorarci su al nostro collab?

terroristimusicali responds:

Grazie mille! Qui sono tornato un pò sperimentale... ho suonato la chitarra con una scheda sulle corde... per il brano ancora non ho avuto tempo... sto facendo un pò di esperimenti video ma al momento non trovo nulla che mi affascini... se puoi spediscimi comunque il brano via mail così appena ho l'ispirazione ci lavoro su!

[Glass Building]

That's a nice remix, pretty chill and cozy. Could be some next gen elevator music in some futuristic corporate building. Thanks for resurrecting one of my old tracks.

Drakensson responds:

Nice to read. Thank you

[See You]

It's good to see newer talents grow over time. Sleek breakcore, kinda rewinds me back to earlier Newgrounds. Nice breakdown in the middle, too. It's simple, but genuine, like the whole track. Nice and chill. Good job.

5TanLey responds:

thanks :)

[Luminous Skyline Dream]

I love its hazy simplicity <3 This is a favorite, for sure.

zybor responds:

Hey long time no see. :)

Thank you for your review. Cheers.

[Final Form]

It seems we exchange frontpage features lately, lol
Good job mate

zybor responds:

wot, another frontpage :O

thank you for the review bro! :)

[AIM - Faith in Freedom]

Classic.

Let's see... Mirror's Edge inspiration. Check.
Typical hybrid synth galore at 140 BPM. Check.
Haunting voice wailing in the foreground. Check.
Lengthy compositions with a cyberpunk edge. Check.
Something something freedom. Check.

Yup, OK. There's everything. Insta-fave'd. :D

zybor responds:

Thanks bro :D.

I LOVE mirror's edge.

I am very sure you will come with stuff ten times more awesome. Can't wait for it!

[Ambient Improv]

That's some fat, breathy ambiance you got there :) Classic vibes, very 80's.
Besides, the JP-8000 is a quite versatile instrument. I like the improv here, you might be onto something nice. The quieter parts remind me of Steve Roach, especially in Dreamtime Return, which is always a good thing. Keep up the ambient vibes!

Mich responds:

Thanks muchly!

I agree about the JP-8000; it's mostly known for its late 90s/early 00s trance supersaws, but it certainly has a bunch more under the hood than that. Thank you for the compliments. I'll have to have a listen to Roach's stuff some time; I see the name mentioned a lot but don't really know his music.

More ambient to come this year!

[Constellation]

Nice! Mellow and spacey. Surprisingly cool change of pace from your usual stuff ;)
Have you tried venturing deeper into ambient music? I think you got the right mindset for it.

5TanLey responds:

thanks, currently, I'm into dreamy over-reverbed stuff so something similar could appear sooner or later :)

[Sempiternal Rhapsody]

I've had the honor to hear the unfinished version of this track, which was already pretty good.
But this is a beast in its own right. What a way to end the year, eh? It feels somewhat nostalgic to me. It might be your style, as it reminds me of different video games and even anime, but even then, it does have a kind of quality that makes the experience more personal and relatable. I'd say it's a step in the right direction, composition-wise and musically. It's very melodic, but multiplexed, making it fairly unpredictable. Well, it is a rhapsody, after all. :)
May the new year bring more brilliant music like this one.

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

I'm glad to hear that the finished version is better than the almost finished one :D
I wanted to end the year with this composition. Partly, because I happened to finish it so close to the end of it anyway, but mostly, because it shows my effort to make sure I put out at least something good in terms of music, this year too (it's more dramatic if there's a turnaround just at the end, no?).
It's cool if it already sounds nostalgic!
Personally, I feel that this piece is a bit more classical than most of my compositions are, but there are definitely segments and portions where the anime and video game styles shine through, since those are pretty much the core of my piano playing (along with other OSTs, such as from movies).
I tend to have a thing for more melodic music, especially if it's a solo instrument. I also have a tendency to change around my compositions a lot, instead of repeating the same refrain two thousand times (sometimes, that really works though). I always try to return to the same themes though, so there is some repetition in here too. Most notable, is that the same melody and chords that are played in the beginning are returned to now and then, a fair amount of times (in different variations).
I hope the New Year will bring out a lot of gems in terms of your music as well! Thank you for your review :'3