JJM121's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Maurya Thunder - RAC'12]

Honestly, this genre of music doesn't really appeal to me. Much prefer songs with a sweeping theme going for it than so many random psychedelic effects.

You kind of did make it a bit Indian, but everything else kind of drowns that out by the end.

AKACCMIOF responds:

Wow, well thanks for honest critical opinion :) Thing is I think with Indian music, is that it has always kinda carried a programmatic philosophy, which back in the classical era tended to mean you have one theme which symbolises and represents an emotion/ image which is then manipulated. Things have moved on though, in East and West with the leitmotif technique becoming pretty much universal. For this reason, I thought it might be a better modernisation of the raag techniques and the Indian classical philosophy if I used a number of motifs depicting different moods to paint the image of the last great Maurya battle.

I understand your critique of the D/s elements being somewhat overpowering and at times "random", and in a way that distracts from the psychedelic, meditative mood, but I chose to use such chaotic sounds to paint a picture of a time that wasn't peaceful or meditative, a time when the sanatan dharma was taken as coherent with imperialism and tribal warfare. People forget, I think, how much Ashoka the Great's reign changed things.

Not everyone will like dubstep (or indeed any form of dark, dissonant dynamic music), and it would be boring if everyone did, but I think it's somewhat shallow to dismiss a song out of hand for using such influences. Honest criticism will always be welcome though :)