Tangerine's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Shifting]

Very trippy. Would have been nice to hear it go forward and other directions.

[Toshii - Boring Day]

The distorted fuzzing, waving of notes and the beat all give me some real lofi-hip hop vibes. Very lovely piece!

[Deadgreenbird & DJ Spyroof - Loss Of An Angel]

I like this a lot! EDM is one of my favourite genres despite it being one of the only ones I can't do. I really love the overall feeling and vibe of this song. Great job!

[Iowa]

This is a very nice song. I really like the use of contrasting low notes throughout the song. It's something that I haven't seen you use much and I feel like you used the low notes great here. They really bring depth to the song and makes the song feel richer as a whole. I really like the piano solo in the middle of the song. I'm very sorry for taking so long to respond to the song. I didn't see it initially until I went on your account and saw it there. I can really feel the Halloween vibes from this. Honestly, I feel like this is your best song yet. The general theme and feel of this song are great. It's very different from your songs in terms of style and range. My favourite of your songs constantly changes because you improve production and general musicality in every song. I really love the use of distorted and mangled notes towards the end of the song. It was a giant surprise and it made this piece sounds a whole lot better. You ended the song off phenomenally. Overall, I really love the song. I look forward to what you make next!

I just have a quick question; what are you going to do once you do every state of the US? Will you find a new naming scheme or will you just start making songs without any correlation with one another?

50Steaks responds:

There were just so many subtleties I wanted to include with this one. I’ve at this point had five chances to remake the melody from early July of 2020, so I wanted this to live up to how I thought the best Missouri would sound like. What I accomplished exceeded my expectations: this atmosphere is really what I wanted from the beginning. At the final climax, 3:57, the distortion goes away and you can hear the song clearly one last time. It was almost like the peak of the Missouri melody. On top of that, what I did with the low notes as you said is I gave them a ton of bass and no high frequencies and did the opposite for most of the other instruments. This produced a gritty, slightly distorted sound that I adored and still left enough room to not sound messy. As for the pitch bending at the end, I felt it was the most appropriate ending for a Halloween song such as this.
What do I plan to do after I’m done? I talked about this in a news post a few months back: essentially I joked about making a song for every country. Honestly there are close to 200 countries currently on this planet, and some of them I know absolutely nothing about so that wouldn’t really work that well. Another option is to just post random songs, but I was kinda planning to just have this account be dedicated to the series as a sort of piece of internet history, and to release more songs would only bloat what’s already there, if that makes any sense. In other words, 50 songs for 50 states; I could just as easily make an alternate account to post future songs on if I were to go the route of posting random songs with no correlation. At this point I haven’t decided which, or a third option to start making songs on cities, which would also be difficult. Another option I see is to make songs on Canadian provinces, but I can’t tell you two differences between Saskatchewan and Alberta. This issue is even a problem right now as I struggle to see if I can make two songs for North and South Dakota when they are practically the same thing.
A long review deserves a long reply lol. TL:DR I am surprised you thought this was my best as always, although I did put a lot of effort into sound design. For the future I don’t know but am considering making a second account.

[The Amiable]

Very soft and relaxing piano. Very nice! I really like the shift in tone at 00:29. It adds a good flavour to the music.

BigBoyGotRefund responds:

Thank you (:

[Talking To The Moon]

Your ancestors over the years smiling at the person you've become.

[Autumn Party]

This is a very interesting one. Perhaps use a little fewer notes for the melody and cut down a little on the discordance. A chord backing to fill up the background would be a good step forward. This reminds me to when I used to make music on this iPad app called Auxi. This gives me some heavy vibes of that. The melody from this song: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1023053 is something I made on Auxi back in 2016. Good times. As long as you keep going, you'll start making commercial-grade music. You just need to keep going.