I Think This is a Fresh Little Diggy Right Here! I love the upbeat Dance Rhythm you've got going on here! The Ora Reminds Me of an old school Sega Sonic type Beat!
Reviews for "Light Up"
johnfn responds:
Woot :D
YES!! It's really exciting to see another full-length track from you, Johnfn. :D The melodies are awesome. This piece is full of climaxes, gooey synth lines and counter-melodies. It's definitely upbeat enough for the "chiptune dance club," that's for sure. ;) I especially love the solo that starts around 2:20. It's extremely smooth-flowing, catchy and engaging. It's the perfect balance of energetic and atmospheric if you ask me. The modulation at 3:05 was a little sudden, but other than that the transitions in this piece are solid. The ending felt conclusive, there was a significant amount of melodic development and dynamic contrast, and, overall, you hit the jackpot again, Johnfn! Hopefully you'll have more time to make music this summer (?). Keep it up, man! ^^
johnfn responds:
Woohoo! Thanks! I work a job now so THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SUMMER. JUST ENDLESS WORK FOREVER. Unless I get fired.
Really digging this man! I'm loving that lead, you slay those riffs and keep me grooving to it. I don't know if this is so much Chipstep as it is Disco with those 16th high hats. I don't know the full characteristics of Chipstep, but no matter.
Great mixing and sound design. Your transitions are very smooth how you introduce other harmonies and have these dips and dives. Nothing ever stays the same with those crazy solos!
Love it!
You should put this on band camp or iTunes. i would totally buy this.
johnfn responds:
Wow, thanks! I've had a couple of people mention disco, which I find kinda funny because I have never listened to a disco song as far as I can remember. Hooray for independent reinvention of genres! :P (I put all my chiptune in chipstep because there is no chiptune genre. Thanks mods for thinking that chipstep is a genre but chiptune isn't -_-)
Thanks for the nice words! I don't think I'm gonna write an album in the immediate future, but then again, who knows..? :O...
Oh my gourd, this is fantastic! You weren't lying when you nailed the mixing! I actually can't find a single flaw in this song. I'll read into your news post. I really need to get better at mixing :X
johnfn responds:
Wow! Thanks! :D
My newspost has most of the basics I think. I hope it helps you! There are a few more things I've been meaning to write up but haven't had the time. I'll see if I can do that soon.
Holy shit John. This is really neat, super cool leads and damn, that mixing. Also, the melody is so catchy!
Would definitely hear more like this. Keep up man!
johnfn responds:
Thanks Aeron! :D
I just wrote a really big post about how I did the mixing in this song
http://johnfn.newgrounds.com/news/post/930135
Honestly I think your mixing is really good, and you probably know all of this stuff plus more, but who knows :P