Love the use of all these risers and FX elements to accentuate the transitions between different sections, and the integration of the actual train SFX was really well done! Great work.
What an interesting take on the theme! Feels very grounded, with tons of interesting sounds and little glitchies here and there to keep you interested.
Great job on the mix, really liked your choices of percussion and synth instruments! My one nitpick would be that the laser-like kick sound gets a little fatiguing after the track has been playing for a bit, but that’s a minor flaw in an otherwise great track.
Love the idea of doing a track for each of the characters in the jam image! I had a very similar idea, but ended up cutting it due to lack of time. I know time stopped you from finishing all the tracks you wanted to make, but I’m really glared you shared with us what you could.
I am totally down with Cyberfunk! Everybody loves a drill solo. The harmony drills are a great touch!
Really interesting to hear this done with a bunch of hardware supplies! The making-of video was also really fun to watch, thank you so much for making it and sharing it with us!
Oooh, loving the break-y drums right off the bat. Fun little micro-edits, giving the whole thing a slightly more aggressive lo-fi hip-hop vibe… Smoke and Mirrors definitely gives me “cyberpunk jazz club” feels!
Really enjoyed the drop into sidechained drums about half-way through Chip Hunter, too, and the sinister bassline in Now It’s Personal was also a delight.
Strong feelings of determination, here, with that hearbeat-like kick drum running all throughout the first track.
Would have loved to hear a bit more rhythmic variation, and maybe some reverb on the cymbals to help them fill out the space, since they fade pretty abruptly!
Oooh, the change in energy from Enhancements to Cyberpunkin’ was really fun! Excited to hear something more uptempo after the relative calm of the first two tracks. Really fun gutteral basses, too!
quite literally, this CEO has been locked in an elevator made of steel plate and plexiglass, with no way out
cybernetics are often visualized in Cyberpunk as gleaming metal and smooth, glossy plastic. “Every damn line I hock at these jocks got ‘em locked in a heap of plastic and plate” is a reference to overcoming the overwhelming strength and power of a corpo-cyborg-militia through subterfuge, hacking, and clever manipulation. If you shut down a cyborg’s robotic components, they’d be helpless, weighed down by their non-functional body parts.
plastic and plate metal are both evocative of industry, to me. At the end, suggesting that the CEO will “take ‘til [his] heart is plastic and plate” is saying that he’ll keep amassing power and wealth at the expense of others until capitalism devours his heart completely, removing his humanity.
I was expecting a bunch of chill tracks after the Intro, but Endless Corridors really hooked me with its juicy bass and pounding drum track. Feels very tense and foreboding.
Some really cool pads and synth patches all over this soundtrack, definitely gives me alien vibes. Open fire is a lot of fun, too!
Love how hard you went on the backstory for this! Really fun to hear what these songs represent to you, and to associate the story beats to the sounds.
That lead synth/bass line at the start of Metro is killer, too!
