Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Gamespy.com
“There's a beautiful orchestral score playing at almost all times, too, adding some excellent sonic punch to the game. Truly, this is a game that's just lovely to sit back with and soak up the visuals and music and enjoy.”
Gamezone.com
“The music in Crimson Skies High Road to Revenge is really outstanding! It is a symphony that sets the whole pace for the entire game. The music is calm and tranquil while being harsh and ramping up for action all in one. It is a real treat for anyone who gets to hear it.”
Gaming-age.com
“…the game is chock full of motion picture quality music, and you would swear that John Williams was somehow involved.”
Gameover.com
“Sound is just as good as the graphics, with an orchestral soundtrack that tends to fade away as you’re searching the land looking for something to do, picking up during successful completion of missions or at the end of battles. This adds a great air of verisimilitude to the 1930s serial flair from the game, and makes you feel like you’re a swashbuckling pirate in the skies.”
Game-revolution.com
“Great sound effects and a rousing score draw you into the experience.”
Gamepower.com.au
“…the music is simply a masterpiece. You'll hear plenty of epic symphonic pieces, from calm tunes to raging ballads, and these all play dynamically in accordance with what's happening in the game, making for an edge-of-your-seat experience.”
Msxbox-world.com
“Complimenting this dramatic storyline is a musical score that sounds like it’s straight out of Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings. The music is used to perfection, with tense audio filling the air in impossible looking dogfights, and lighter tunes playing in the background as you explore the surrounding area.”
Amazon.com
[***** Stars] “Best game music ever!” - November 11, 2003“This is amazing - not too long ago it seemed inconceivable that a game soundtrack could come anywhere close in quality to a movie soundtrack. The music for Crimson Skies is better than most movies, on par with the best. John Williams, eat your heart out - Stan LePard has arrived!”
Gamechronicles.com [Game Chronicles Magazine]
“The music in Crimson Skies not only fits the genre but also the time period. This soundtrack could easily drop into any of the Indiana Jones movies and work just as well. The movies have scripted scores but the music during gameplay is dynamic and cues to the action. You’ll get this pleasant majestic score as you are casually exploring the area then as enemy planes start swooping in the music intensifies creating a very exciting mood.”
Gamebiz.com
“The entire musical score for Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge is breathtaking. The music is very fitting to the atmosphere of Crimson Skies the sound track is cinematic and fits the entire storyline.”
Xboxsolution.com
“The soundtrack for the single player game sets the tone perfectly.”
Talkxbox.com
“The music is beautiful; it always fits the atmosphere the graphics create. It reminds me of Indiana Jones.”
Deeko.com
“The musical score is mesmerizing and seems as if it was taken from those old 30’s serial movies I spoke about earlier. Lending an air of adventure and excitement, the musical score quite effectively augments your gaming experience.”
1up.com
“The music is all straight out of a '30s action film: it's brassy and sassy, and it flits up and down in tone based on how you're faring on the battlefield.”
New Zealand Herald
“Top notch graphics and a soaring musical score turn camp into high adventure.”
Gamepro.com
“…full orchestral soundtrack that sounds like it came straight out of an Errol Flynn serial.”
Gamespot.com
“The game's great music, along with Nathan Zachary's confident, lady-killing charm, gives the game a nice atmosphere that flies in the same airspace as the Indiana Jones series.”
Avault.com [The Adrenaline Vault]
[**** Stars] “The music serves as more than just a simple backdrop for the action. It invigorates the scene, doing its part to emphasize the pace and desperation of fighting a pitched battle. If the frantic dogfighting doesn't bring beads of sweat to your brow, the music surely will. Of course, such tunes would be inappropriate for exploration. Fortunately, the music is sensitive to your situation, relaxing into a slow mellow score in times of peace.”
Crimson Skies [original PC version ]
Avault.com [The Adrenaline Vault]
[**** Stars] “The music is generally very professional and extremely well suited to the theme of the game, a case in point that other developers should take into consideration when doing their hiring for musical scores.”
Game Revolution
“Everything about the game, from the characters to the movies to the sound, simply screams romantic era 1930's America… The game's music also immerses you completely in a 1930's mindset with authentic sounding swing music.”
Eurogamer
“The sound is also very impressive…the music is not only appropriate but alters to fit the current situation.”
Gameblitz.com
“The orchestral score is quite grandiose, but very fitting given the 1930s setting.”
Deadalf.com
“… the music is suitably orchestrated and over the top.”
STEEL PORN RHINO track "Aka Electric" on WaxTrax! Records' Ethnotechno
Alternative Press:
“But it is Steel Porn Rhino's "Aka Electric" that owns this record. Looped recordings of pygmy tribal chants form a rhythm enhanced by ambient and trance styles of modern electronic music. What's most interesting about this track is the subtle alteration of the tribal voices. They are compressed, reversed and otherwise fractured as the piece progresses, yet we never lose the ability to identify the piece's source.”
RM Dance Update
“...dazzling performance from Steel Porn Rhino...”
Billboard
“Standout tracks include "Aka Electric" by Steel Porn Rhino...”
STEEL PORN RHINO debut CD on Hangman Records
Keyboard Magazine
“[Steel Porn Rhino] has all it takes - ears, imagination, and a sense of the absurd - to stand out from the club music crowd. Their migraine-throb beats are skeletons for the Frankensteinian constructions they assemble from scratches and textured samples. Textures and verbal images collide to evocative, if bewildering effect... Though best appreciated from within a mob of agitated dancers, Steel Porn Rhino has enough substance and sheer slam power to keep even armchair aficionados awake.”
Alternative Press
“The eponymous Steel Porn Rhino comes from the same basic direction as Meat Beat Manifesto, placing distorted buzz-raps within a hip-hop industrial setting. Pinhas-styled complexities and continuous changes mark the rhythms, and songs such as "The Holy Hand" even add an eastern touch of religious chanting. The CD stand-out is "Sandman," whose industrialized sound transcends ordinary house rap and moves into truly dangerous territory.”
XLR8R
“Somewhere below techno and above the angstful assault of machines... The sounds are at first inviting, come-hither almost, then lock in and send you into a dysfunctional dance.”
Skull Press
“...this music is a mind fuck...the production quality is immaculate.”
The Rocket
“There is no virtual about SPR's reality, they are a wall of sound, information and beats that crush.”