Axolotl's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Summer Lovin]

I want more liquid DnB on Newgrounds like this... It's so much fun, yet it has a lot of emotion behind it. Great job, I need all of this forever.

[Berlin]

Oh jeez... This is just... uhhhnnnfff....

It's so fluid and yet energetic... It's peaceful, refined and complex at the same time. I love this... It takes the listener to another place. I'm totally in love with this track.

Great work. I can't wait to see a lot more of your stuff. :D

[Highlighters & Microwaves]

It has this... futuristic aspect to it. I love it. It's technical, sophisticated and edgy at the same time, and it gets away with it perfectly... If that makes sense. It's definitely one of my favorites on Newgrounds at the moment. Very fun, very whimsical and very catchy. :D

[12/23/2013]

This is insane, and I love it. It's so much different than anything I've heard on Newgrounds. I just wish it was finished! It would totally be my new favorite song on NG if it went on longer.

Any plans on finishing this piece? I'd love to see where you could go with it. It's just so upbeat and whimsical and fun as hell.

[Mystical Mountain]

If this doesn't scream Golden Dun, then en I don't know what does. This has the perfecct.

[RPG Overworld Theme]

Really solid loop. It could be for something as simple as an RPG overworld, but I could see it being something like a menu song for some kind of space-epic. Think StarFox multiplayer: Choose your character! Choose your ship!

I hate comparing songs to things that already exists, but sometimes it's the best way to convey a specific "feeling" or "setting", if you know what I mean.

Regardless, great work.

[Setting Out]

All I have in my head is the soundtrack to a Miyazaki film (so sad to see he's retiring). It's so adventurous, ambitious and whimsical. One of my favorite submissions to Newgrounds of all time. The song really takes the listener on a journey. I got imagery from this, lots of imagery. Flowing fields, forests, a lone person or a group traveling a lush green countryside with the wind at their backs.

This is such a fun composition to listen to. 5/5 across the board.

BlazingDragon responds:

Thank you so much! Miyazaki is one of my heroes and his films are a major source of inspiration for me. You rock. :)

[Frozen Cave]

Reminiscent of the barren, lonely and often spooky isolation an desolation of both the locations and music of the Metroid Prime games. It gave me chills... Heh, a pun on the name of the song... >_> But really, this is incredible and I love the slow, unsettling mysteriousness of it. I'm not sure if you did this in a certain key, but if you did, it can't get more perfect than this. Can't spot keys and all that, so sorry if I'm being a bit ignorant - I appreciate creativity in music (and this piece brings it), but I can only really "visualize" my own melodies and such, as I lack the abilities to read/write music, and I won't even go into my keyboard/guitar "skill level".

Anyway, enough of that tangent. More comments! At 1:26-27, that 8-bit-ish sytnth kicks in. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the Game Boy Advance series "Boktai" (if you're one of us lucky few to have played even just one of the games, you're a blessed soul), but the second half of the song kinda instantly make me think of the way the music in said games plays out, what with all the other instruments in the background.

Very well done. I've had this looping for about 20 minutes now, so clearly this is a winner, haha. Rating 5/5 And giving 5/5 stars.

Jonicorn responds:

Woooooow man, thank YOU! Haha, i LOVE the music in the metroid prime games. Although I wasn't directly influenced when I made this, maybe it had been slowly been cooking and somehow boiled down to this.
Nope I didnt place it in a certain key, but it certanley is in one^^ Cant say what key right now though...
Yeah, I actually have the same problem, since i cant write/read sheetmusic in such a pace that it benefits my workflow. So what happens is that I have this idea, try to make it as closley as I can to that in a midi program or on a guitar, but since I have to "listen for the melody" rather than just write it down from the top of my head, it never is quite as I pictured it. But this song really came out nice anyway!

Nope! I have not played Boktai, but I have heard of it and now I certanly will try to get my hands on it, in some form.

And that, that you had this looping for 20 minutes, it's just wow. I'm so happy that you liked it. Thanks for listening! I have no idea when il be making more, but check back in maybe a couple of months and there'l be something new.. Maybe.

Thanks for the review!

[Frost Bite]

This is totally amazing and I have not been able to not listen to it for more than a few hours apart. XD

I know this was created using digital means, but if you're skilled in tab-writing, it would be so cool to learn how to play the rhythm of this song. I've been learning to play guitar and I think this is the style that I would like to follow-up into.... Especially since I do weird, off-beat animations.

DragonX016 responds:

The Rhythm part...It follows very similar chord changes as Autumn Leaves. If you learn the chord changes to that one (which...isn't a bad idea because it's the go-to jazz standard), you'll be able to pick out the changes in this. It's in Gmin. I know for sure-there's not a chord in this that's not in Autumn Leaves. If I ever get around to charting it, I'll put the changes up in the description. Cheers and thanks so much for the kind words!

[Little Red Riding Hood]

I have yet to see another fairy tale-esque song with as much as charm and eeriness as this. I really love this. It's very original. And that bass in the more intense moments - it's so fitting and perfect for the story. I would love to use this in something at some point, so I'm favoriting it for now and forever. :D