ZLEAP's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[MM1: The Living and Breathing Machine]

I don't know how your music kick starts my imagination. Don't stop.

While listening to this, I involuntarily imagined a massive Mother Machine in her final stage of production/repair. Millions of worker machines scurrying about her body, preparing to unleash her upon the world.

Anchorwind responds:

"I don't know how..." Yes you do. We tell stories with our sounds, reflect upon moods and explore concepts. At times it may not even be a choice, or a conscious effort: it's just what we do.

[MM1: Enter The Mother Machine]

I'm extremely grateful that today wasn't the day I started taking hallucinogenic drugs again. Well, the day is still young. At :32 the track switched gears on me and really took off. I didn't know what to expect from there.

The dense wall of sound really makes this work. I like how it can either smack you in the face or swell up from below. Very disorienting and chaotic. The ambiance really sucked me into a daydream.

Anchorwind responds:

Thanks for taking the time to review. The Smacking of Faces and Swelling up from Below are both intentional. At this point in the Mother Machine story, Having just been revived, she's in full pursuit mode: it's the creepy-look-out-behind-you-here-she-comes section followed by the burst-into-the-room part.

[NG: The Challenge (AW|RX)]

It sounded as if the softer elements of this song were fighting it out with the guitar for dominance on this track. It was a good mix of the two though. I was kind of waiting for it to explode into a metal frenzy but it never came. I suppose it served it's purpose and left me at the edge, waiting for more.

Anchorwind responds:

I love metal frenzies when done right. I'm glad you enjoyed, and thanks for taking the time to review.

[Marx (Spiderbee)]

I enjoyed this thoroughly. Although, I didn't get full blown happiness from the track. Yes there are plenty of elements to it that would suggest it but things like the synth that runs through it takes my mind to darker places. It's almost like you think you're happy but a constant in your life is always fucking you over. Just when you think you are happy the pain returns, making you shy from happiness all together.

It's that, or I've translated your song to fit my own psychological problems.

Great job!

LuigiofDarkness responds:

Thank you very much. :D

[Guardian Angel]

This seemed sincere. Straight from the soul. Good job.

[This my Jam]

DOOM

[MM1: The Burning Facility]

This wakes the pyromaniac in me. It speaks to it. It tells it to cleanse by fire. Purify the world.

Anchorwind responds:

Mother Machine cleanses. Mother Machine rebirths. We are all but specks of stardust, fighting the inevitable, failing away against that which we do not resemble or understand.

[DC: Frozen Wastes of a Lonely Heart]

it's entirely too easy to get lost in this one.

Anchorwind responds:

I thought about a response for this. I keep coming back to "While I'm glad you like it, I'm sorry you understand."

[The Hammer of Eden]

I like how you tried to explore different ideas with this track without straying from the structure and general sound of it. I guess my biggest complaint would be the guitar. It sounds a bit forced to me. Other than that it's a unique piece of music.

LuigiofDarkness responds:

Yeah, I had the guitar sort of glitching out there as a contrast to the melodic-ness of the synths, but it become a little more disconcerting than I wanted.

Thanks for the review!