50Steaks's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

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I’m not sure how you keep pumping out these tracks, and they’re all bangers of course and just super fun to listen to one after the other. However, I also am beginning to notice that your style of music restricts variation to a certain degree; it kind of feels like all of your songs blend together, which is a double edged sword in my opinion. On the one hand, this is a very unique style of music and, if someone is looking for it specifically, you’re the only one who makes it properly consistently. On the other hand, if they’re looking for literally anything else, there isn’t much else to find. The reason I say this is because there’s a very tricky balance between variety and still keeping a baseline, and I also have been trying very hard to strike it. At first, I was solely trance/dance/techno, as indicated by the first 25 or so songs on my account. Then I decided I’d go completely off the rails after I released Wyoming and experiment with literally everything including discordant jazz, real instruments, remixing classical pieces (and remixing in general), and dissonant chords (note: I think you’d be really good at jazz music, but that’s just me). After that jazz thing I made I decided to tone it down and just start returning to my roots in the form of more electronic music, and I think I’ve found a happy medium at this point (subject to change). Point is, variety is the spice of life, and it would be really cool to see you try other genres or major variations on your favorite genre. Thanks for reading!

wilidacious responds:

thank you so much, i always love your analyses! i am definitely a creature of habit and branching out of my comfort zone has always been difficult. i consider everything on here as work in progress, and hopefully refinement? i am trying not to be cheap or redundant, but i absolutely agree that i have a cycle of about four or five types of sound design that i gravitate toward and it does keep me awake at night wondering if it is all blurring and what comes next. i have thought about taking a hiatus sometimes to sort of gain some perspective and space, but then i get really neurotic that i'll lose something in the process, or become preoccupied with something else entirely? sorry, i am kind of just wondering aloud here. anyways, i really appreciate your time and consideration.

[Allium]

Alright that’s one of the better of these types of beats, and for being someone who only started making music 2 years ago, I’m thoroughly impressed. I will say one thing: you need to go on discord and message a GD moderator to be whitelisted, although I will scout you nonetheless because this deserves to be heard.

Rainful responds:

Thanks for the kind words! I'll dm a mod :)

[~NK~ Figures]

Yeah I’ve never been much of a dubstep fan, but this song sticks out to me, specifically because of 2:07. That part just hits different than any other dubstep I’ve ever heard, and has earned this artist his greatest song and, in my opinion, one the magnum opi of the whole genre.

[9. Toaster Love]

This reminds me of the Wikipedia article on cock and ball torture; the heavy metal-esc screaming fits perfectly with what this character is actually doing in the song, which makes it quite interesting to listen to. Unfortunately you do get knocked down for making me wince every time he says a word (lyric-wise), but the weird and creepy outro is so random and unexplained that I consider it to be a representation of the remains of this dude’s destroyed cock.

guyfromKillerRAT responds:

I definitely do like to hear interpretations of things I did in songs without verbally explaining. I believe that your interpretation very much does sound like something I would do. Is it true though? Well, I'll leave you to decide that.

[Let's Skip Christmas]

This is how I feel about Christmas every year now. Finally a NEW original Christmas song instead of the same 10-15 that have been overplayed since the beginning of time. I swear the last new one I cam remember is Mariah Carey, and yet this is the next.

[carrier]

Wow. This blew me away, not just because it sounds so different than what you usually post, not just because it is in 6/8, but the structuring and melodic blending you use here is not of the ordinary. This is genuinely something I could just randomly hum the melody of, similar to a lot of classical music. The percussion is actually my favorite of all your songs so far, it’s great. The time signature really is the “signature” of this song and it was executed really well. I see some producers attempt a 3/4 or 6/8 time only to make a 4/4 track with swing, but this is anything but that. Also I love that outro that you can tell is coming, but only subconsciously so. Really really well done here, as always, and I’m glad to see you try something a little bit different.

wilidacious responds:

thank you so much!

[THE NOISE EXPERIMENT (Old Version)]

This has to be the absolute scariest song I've ever heard, and I am no stranger to scary songs. This specifically, the way it connects to a horrific real life illness, the way I feel as if this could happen to me one day due to how common it is, and especially -- ESPECIALLY-- 3:08-4:26; it all combines to make a version so so much scarier than the original. I could see a save as sequel being made based on 3:08-4:26 alone and it would be awesome.

[TGRI - Phantom over the Ocean]

What? I never reviewed this? I could have sworn I did. Anyways in the review I thought I posted, I talked about how I had some “strong opinions” about the piece of artwork associated with this song, despite the song itself being really good. You’re really getting better at creating progression and integrating different musical ideas. Not to mention, it feels like you use at least one new instrument every song; here you used the organ. It’s a good soundfont for the organ; to be fair, it could use a touch more reverb. Either way, the atmosphere that the art attempts to encapsulate is emulated really well here. The melody here isn’t quite as melancholy as I thought it would be, but that’s fine I suppose. I was expecting a wistful, almost nostalgic vibe, but it came out as more of a mourning tone, which is also fitting. Overall, really well done yet again.

[|21| PRINTIN' (yELLOW) COLOURS]

I fail to see how this or the other four color songs correlate at all with the colors you gave them: I would imagine this one being blue, for example, because it’s chill and smooth. Either way this is probably your best song because I have a soft spot for atmospheric tracks recently lol.

PartyBalloof responds:

I was never good with associating something with other things, thus whenever I do an analogy my friends have no idea what I'm talking about!

[TGRI - Frosty Breeze]

And this is where I forget that you guys are all upside down. The Christmas season is usually associated with snow, warm fires, and Christmas trees, all of which is just not present in the Southern Hemisphere. Imagine having Christmas be filled with days to the beach and tans.
About the song, I really liked this one. It must be strange naming a Christmas themed song frosty breeze having never experienced a frosty Christmas lol. Either way it’s executed really well here. I will say the flute hanging around leading up to the outro was a little artificial sounding, almost like it was a post production addition to pad out the song. But that’s entirely made up for by the surprising accelerando at 2:13 that really ups the intensity, followed by the most overture parodic (a parody of… is parodic even a word?) section where the same 8 not3s repeat with cymbals at a faster tempo. I’m glad to see it randomly here because it brings a lot more immersion with the second half. Of course the first half is simply leading up to that though so it did fade into the background a little until then, which isn’t a bad thing at all. Overall really well done here of course, and I’m glad to see you take more advantage of the software.