Coop's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[==(Northern Light)==]

Sounds like a B movie

The way it gets going sounds like the start of Beverly Hills Cop - the budget version, starring some actors that no-one has ever heard of. Not that I'm knocking it, because that movie didn't really have many well known actors and it made Eddie Murphy :P

Very mid-80s, in the way that you've played the keyboards and piano, it all comes together very nicely and I can imagine things like either the start of BHC or maybe flying close to the surface of the water, across a calm lake or sea.

The ending was too drawn out and maybe you could have considered adding a pause for the keyboard / strings, to give a small drum solo - keeps the listener on their toes and gives them something to say 'Ah, the artist is still committed here'

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[Warp away]

Nice but short

This has the beginnings of a good tune, with the well displayed properties of making the title of the tune related to the tune itself.

It really needs to be something longer, in order to make the grade, but at least you've got it looping nicely.

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Cyberdevil responds:

Thanks for the review! Maybe I'll make a longer version of this . . .

[Sometime]

Drop the 'four note'

After a few bars, the four notes which you've played through the song seems to be a little out of place. I'd suggest that you dropped it and made a move towards the rest of the tune.

You're good enough to remember rhythm and the best part of this particular piece was in the middle, when you did drop it. To me, it is like riding a bike with stabilisers. You're capable of riding without, so ride without them.

A nice introduction of the drum beat as well, but I think you can do so much more with just keeping this piece to Piano, honestly.

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[White]

Turn professional!

This is a truly amazing piece and I'm surprised that if you haven't already become a professional musician, you need to consider it.

While this is a nice gig on the side, you gould be pulling in a large audience who would pay good money (real money) to listen to you perform. There is no higher praise that I can give for this piece, as you have certainly smoothed out a few earlier rough edges in your style and this sounds eerily reminiscent of the one tune played at the end of a certain Lee Evans gig. He's a funny man, but he can play a good piano as well.

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[Talking To Myself]

Well worked

I'm not entirely sure about the sound that starts at the intro - I don't even know what instrument it is, but I personally found it really annoying and I think it is holding your song back a little.

The pause in the middle could have been made just that little bit longer, for more effect. Those are the only niggles, with what i found was overall a very nice song.

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LenardNotLenny responds:

Cool. Yeah... it was a synth on a keyboard with a very obscure Garageband filter. Thanks for your feedback.

[Computer LuV]

Not sure about the title...

But this is still a nice tunem, nonetheless. Ah, so you've done a remake of something by Kraftwerk. That explains a lot, really.

Not that I've got anything against them - I've heard Bill Bailey's rendition of 'Das Hokie Kokie', which was a very good interpretation of the tune.

You've given us a nice insight into what goes on inside the minds of the members of Kraftwerk - gears meshing in perfect synchronisation.

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[Zafer-- Tribute of XEPHER]

Sounds like TATU

Not that that's exactly a bad thing. The start of the tune, with the vocals sounding like a band which used sexuality to get to the top of the UK charts.

You certainly cut loose from that after the intro, didn't you? The tempo leapt to light-speed, which in all honesty was just a little too quick for my liking. I quite liked the addition of the occasional piece of guitar, or similar sounding instrument. It wasn't quite trance enough, because I thought that trance tunes were meant to make your ears bleed, weren't they?

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[//Spanish Intrustion [Fire]]

Ambient

Not exactly my kind of music, but I can see the inspiration being something of a hot day in either Spain or Mexico, with the dust blowing lazily around a courtyard and the locals taking a quick siesta.

This seems like they are getting ready to rteturn to their tasks, as the way the music seems to work, it sounds as if they are slowly and tiredly getting up and having a stretch.

Maybe add a second guitar at points, to give a counter melody, which would probably enhance the voerall appearance of the tune.

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[Spanish Inspiration [Cardiac]]

Not sure about the intro, to be honest

A good song - well delivered on the guitar, but I think that the artist talking at the start was just a waste of time. Just give us the guitar in its own right, where it can be showcased for how good it is.

I saw it was a Hip Hop song, but I really don't think that it was, as I kept expecting some rapper to give some lyrical assistance to the tune. That is Hip Hop, isn't it?

The tempo was good, as was the rhythm. Maybe needed to ahve a little piece which deviated from the actual pattern of the tune itself, otherwise it is just ambient, which I don't think you were gunning for here.

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[Man In the Smoking Mirror]

Creepy and Surreal

The intro is very surreal, as if someone is walking through a deserted old house, full of dust and cobwebs.

Then it takes a turn for the macabre, as someone or something startles them and the chase is on. They run and somewhere along the line, there is either the chased being caught, or some other reason that the tune directs us back to the start. Maybe they were just listening to an old music box after all?

Goodnight children, sleep well. *Evil laugh*

An evil laugh would really have capped this off, not very loud, but in the background at the end, just enough to make the hairs on the back of the neck stand on end.

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WritersBlock responds:

Lol, nice story. The evil laugh is a good idea. I've got to remember that...