johnfn's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[entranced in the city lights]

CRUD LIVES!!! and the world is better for it.

Good to see your back =), even if for a short time. I havent had much to listen to while you were gone =P. This song is nice sounding trance indeed. Long songs like this are different then your normal style, and personally i like songs that build up fast, but this song is great in its own respective rights. Excellent work, and good to listen to some music again! =)

crud responds:

i do enjoy the short songs as well, i want people to be able to hear them right away and not have to wait too long to download. But on this one, i really just kept going and going...ridiculous. hopefully i can get some more tunes coming, but it's christmas break now and I'll be away from the computer....arghh!!!

[The Depths]

Ha! I knew it was metroid!

I heard something MPish about this song, unconciously or not i dont know. But i could definately hear it. And somehow, it fits beautifuly, just like everything else. I think the only reason this isnt the single best track of the NG techno section is the slow begining. I mean, it takes about a minute to get into the real song, but man is it worth it! This song is wonderfully catchy, beautfully timed, wonderfully technoish, and absolutely perfect! I can say no better praise then that. And the piano too... gee, i wish i could make music half this good.

Keep up the beautiful pieces of art you seem to be churning out like a factory.

Btw, I love MP! MP2 will rock the world! Muahahaha! =D

XsToRmEr1 responds:

Hehe. Good guess on the MP part. I just couldn't resist. The scratchy alien sound was speaking to me. I wouldn't have dragged it on so long if a certain friend of mine bitched to me saying how my stuff goes in too quickly. I like it that way, but I gave the long intro thing a shot. I didn't really feel comfortable with it. Oh well. Glad you enjoyed the song :).

[Bliss]

Brilliant

Once again, an excellent song from you. Your music is incredible, made even more incredible by the fact that your only 14... wow. This song has a beautiful ... err, whats it called, main part of the song...yeah... made even better by the fact that its quiet yet still audible and seems to go perfectly. The chime arpeggioes along with the wonderful techno bass and the beat and... just everything seems to fit together wonderfully.

Newgrounds needs more music like this.

XsToRmEr1 responds:

You mean melody? =P

[Flames of the Sky]

Excellent!

This is an excellent piece of work. It really has that techno feel everyone seems to want but no one seems to have. Everything fits together flawlessly and the piano really works well with the melody. I can forsee excellent music from you my good sir! ;)

[Tricky Concert]

Beautiful

Simply beautiful. I beg of you, give us a link to more of your works, or submit some more. Your audio is simply excellent. How the heck do you do it...

[Apochrypha (Crud v.s. AaronR)]

Different indeed

But excellent, even better then a good bit of your other works. It really has that excellent tranceish feel, and everything from the drum roll to the synths fits excellently. This is a different style of music then I normally hear from you, but what can be expected from a collab is such. AaronR, excellent job, I can hear the parts that arent crud (I'm fairly farmiliar to his music) and hope to hear more from you as well :)

Good job to the both of you, I hope to hear more :)

crud responds:

always a pleasure hearing from you. I'd be hard pressed to figure out which parts were Aaron's or mine just by listening, so i'm impressed that you can. This was a very fun project cause he made crazy good riffs and we just played off each other to make the final project which i'm really glad you like. makes me feel all gooey inside. Hopefully a new song will be coming out soon.
"they should make a club in a mining shaft, but instead of mining for minerals, we'd mine for Ectasy! it just makes sense!!"

[Buired in Dust (2:48)]

Beautiful

All your work shows you've truly mastered the music. This piece is no exception. After hearing your first three I waited for another, but i slowly forgot, then comming back to hear this masterpiece is awesome. This audio really flows very well. There are no jumps between themes and that phasing synth really works wonders. Just...gee, listening to this makes me think that the portal isnt (almost) filled with crap after all. Upload some of your other work if possible, because this is excellent stuff :)

TBF responds:

You're making me blush man. Im so glad that you like my music, thank you for all the positive feedback. I have a few more tunes but none of them are at the point where I feel they are good enough to upload right now. Pretty Soon though I will have another one to upload. Thx Again.

[The Ocean Is seamless]

Excellent as always

Very nice audio you have here. It starts off almost ambient, and when I heard the beginning I almost turned it off, but I perservered and it slowly but surely turns into an excellent techno echoey song. Not only that but after it loops around you can really hear that the beginning fits into the song excellently. I find it amazing that you can master everything you set out to do, from happy songs to sadder variations, even from zippy techno to slower songs like this, and its all good.

Well, great job as always. And dont leave beacuse of school... its fine if you put out a song every 2 weeks, just dont leave. Your pretty much the only reason I come to the audio portal anymore... Well, I dont want to pressure you.

crud responds:

it's great to hear from my hardcore fan, i owe a lot to you. but when i go to school i will be studying abroad in Austria, it will be really difficult to travel, do homework (party) and keep on making music...but you can rest assured in the fact that i absolutely LOVE TO MAKE TECHNO!!! so the submissions will not stop, i will do anything to keep up when i can. besides, i don't leave for a week and a half....still more to come ;)

[Drawing in the sand]

I like that!

At first when I listened to this song I thought it wasnt so good and ignored it, until a bit later when it goes into the main melody. I really like the sadish tone of the bells and the accompinament (sp?) in the background and they really fit together nicely. And then the synths come in reinforcing the bells... its a really nice song indeed, I'm very disappointed it only has a 2.5. Its too bad you can only vote once on a song because I would have voted 5 on your songs so many times... Meh. I'll spare you the long review and end it her-

crud responds:

yeah, i didn't spend too much time on this song, originally i had planned to have some lyrics in there, so that's why it kinda repeats in the beginning. But yeah, the bass starts out weird too, but smooths out and sounds cool.I'm glad you stuck it through and listened to the whole thing! just get all your friends to vote! or at least just listen! have a safe and enjoyable day!

[Skyscrapers]

WOW!!

Maybe its because I dont pay much attention to drum and bass, but this one completely blows me away. That arpeggio synth fits amazingly well with the drums that rock the song so well. I love the drumrolls, and the drums themselves are just awesome. The beginning isnt so great, but if it just started insanely, it wouldnt go right, so i guess its sort of a tradeoff.

Heh, it bugs me that i cant vote more than once or i would vote 5 on this so many times... Really though I've thought that with a lot of your songs, to equal out whatever or whomever is decreasing the score (thinking about it makes me angry, these songs are masterpieces, each in their own right)

Personally I thought the same with CRUD breathes the thick air (except in that case the beginning rocks as well), perhaps I'll go write a review on that one.

Additionally its nice that your really good songs (i.e. just a tickle, thick air) still manage to have a high rating even though they get nuked. HA.

I'm also glad that you release your music so fast, I come back tommorrow and there are 2 new tunes (and somehow they still completely 0wn). I think sometime you should try putting a lot of time into a piece, it would probably rock the portal as these do themselves but with even more work it could be really spectacular. Just a suggestion, personally I think your songs 0wn anyways, but it might be a fun experiment.

Whoa... that was even longer. You'll probably waste half your life reading my reviews :P. I must be long winded.

I eagerly await your next song!

crud responds:

Christ man! you do love to leave some massive reviews!;)yet everything you say has a point. thanks for all the points made. I actually have thought about doing some immensely long and tedious song like how dreamscaper puts out 8 min songs...but i think my ADD wouldn't allow it. However, i definitely will get to a point where i will work endlessly on a song. Just you wait :)