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[Industrial Cavern]

True industrial sounds!

A great track! I love the way that you're making most of this track with the backing of real industrial tools and the sounds from factories etc. The hisses of steam or pneumatic presses were brilliant and I'd love to hear more of your work in the Industrial genre.

I think that this is a nice little tune that works well with the fact that it starts slowly and gradually works its way up through the speeds, getting towards something that is workable with, as opposed to going for the fastest that you can achieve.

When you get to the highest tempo of the track, perhaps throw a solo in there, so that it breaks the track up a little - perhaps some noises of engines firing, or something similar - perhaps indicative of part of a construction, or industrial process that has reached conclusion.

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PuffballsUnited responds:

I don't think this song would have been as good if the tempo was too fast. Thanks for the review!

[byzentine awesome.]

A little basic

It's not a bad tune, as the Sacale is certainly an unusual instrument. I think that you could have used it more than just playing 2 or 3 different riffs over the start and finish of the tune and putting a bass beat in the middle of them.

Perhaps integration is what you need to practice this time around. Give it the chance to blend the two pieces in together and get it sorted that these two parts compliment each other, rather than making it sound like a recital, by adding the applause.

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mikkim responds:

no the instrument is a saxaphone. the melody is in the byzintine SCALE. sacale was an accidental mistyping.

[SN |Pristine| SN]

Nice - Congratulations on 50

I'm not sure about the vinyl record sound that you've got going for the start, middle and end of the piece here, but the drum and bass have a very nice pace that carries on well with the feel of the track. A great tune that I'd expect to hear in a gym, while people are trying to lift weights otherwise.

I love the way that the track winds itself up to start with and then launches into a superfast tempo that you've built up. I'm not sure about continuing with the piano sound when the drum and bass starts - perhaps something a little more befitting would suit. If it's going to be piano, have it graduate to a proper piano sound and take it from there with some real piano tunes, with chords and melody coming along and really smashing the song open with the bass as it's bitch and not the other way around ;)

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SessileNomad responds:

yeah thanks to a friend of mine i have a much better technique to create that vinyl sound, so anything after this that uses it should be fine

lol not somthing i would think to hear in a gym, well mabye the drums which i guess is what you were saying, only if it were to a different tune though xD

using the piano as the lead is sorta my style, im not really a fan of most of the DnB i hear where the bass is the lead

thanks for reviewing man

peace out

[One Gun]

Nice loop

Not a bad loop - it could be made longer and given more on the scope for variation, but other than that, it's a nice piece. With the way that the bass integrates itself with the keyboard melody, you've got a good sound that encourages people to just get on and move themselves to the beat.

As I said above, I could see this being about 2-3 minutes long, as opposed to just a 1 minute loop. With the way that the melody gets repetitive, you could do with having some sort of solo thrown into the mix, which would help to encourage natural breaks in the rhythm and stop people from getting bored and automatically drown out the music sound itself.

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[PPC2 - K Time]

Great Ambience

This is a nice sounding piece, but the guitar does get a little repetitive after a while. I know that ambience isn't supposed to distract from whatever the main feature of a piece is, but you could make the guitar sound a little different if you're adding variation in the forms of other sound effects. Those sounds aren't as dominant as the guitar, so it does end up with a nice sound, but the repeated guitar seems to drag on too long for me.

I think that you need to take about the last 30 seconds off the end of the track, as it's not really doing anything, just kind of a 'breezy' fade out, which could be brutally cut down to size. Taking a few bits out of the second half of the track will make it a more manageable piece that fits better to what you and flash authors might be looking for.

The reason I suggest cutting it down to size is that it's a 6.4 meg file - you want the animation to look good and do the tune justice, but only leaving an animator 3.6 meg to play with, if they haven't got "special dispensation" to submit a 10+ meg file, it probably won't be able to do your work justice.

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Monkeydelic responds:

Thank you :)
I'll attempt to re-record this song in a couple of weeks with a better mic, i'll defineatly make it a bit shorter then, this was really just me wanting to test out some ideas, some worked out, and some didn't, so the finished version will defineatly be shorter.
I'll also work more on the guitar, as i focused completely on the effects, and added the guitar only to have a backdrop.

Thanks for the review :)

Namaste.

[PPC2 - Forest II]

Great melody

A really nice mellow tune, this one. I like the way that it, in combination with the name of the track just brings to the mind a scene of a guy or two, sitting up in a tree, playing a little tune with one another, slowly enjoying the late summer / early autumn weather.

Perhaps it's a little on the slow side and maybe you could have used some sort or higher pitched solo, just to keep things different, as with the length of the tune, the variation is always something that needs to be concentrated on.

I'd suggest that perhaps you use some sort of drum beat within the track, as it started with the knocking on the guitar, but a simple bass drum beat at points in the song would work well.

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Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks:)

I'll experiment with drums and other stuff when re-recording, personally i think the tempo is perfect, but it doesn't hurt to check it out.

Thanks for the review :)

Namaste.

[PPC2 - Forest I]

Nice accoustic guitars

I like this track - it's got a nice mellow feel to it. A shame that there is a little static on the top of the louder notes, but it still sounds very nice all together.

It gets a little repetitive after about half of the track, which is a shame - I'd like to see more than just a reasonably short loop-sounding track. For me, the background singing came in too late at 3.20. Perhaps a minute or two quicker as a bridge between a verse and chorus? If you moved it forward like that, you'd be able to kill two birds with one stone and move swiftly on with a better sounding track to boot :)

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Monkeydelic responds:

Thanks :)

I'll try that out, and see how it works out.

Thanks for review :)

Namaste.

[=NGA= Pound The Beat]

Stephen Hawking remix!

I love the vocals that you've got going here - it just seems to make me feel that you've got Professor Hawking in the nightclub working the decks with his incredible wheelchair. I love the sound that it's got with those crazy vocal samples there.

Towards the end of the track, it gets very busy and things start to make the whole production tie itself in knots. Try expanding the track, so that people can actually hear the component parts, as they try to bring the track to a close - you're after them reaching some sort of harmony, not a loose, disorganised end, which was a poor way to end the track, sadly.

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[[dj-Jo] Raving Egyptians DEMO]

Stereotypical, but techno.

Ah, the stereotype of the 1980s "Walk like an Egyptian" How far music has come in 20 years.

It's taken this stereotypical edge and has been given additional bells and whistles to take it away from the stereotype, without becoming completely detached from the origins. I like the rising note that comes in there and seems to act as punctuation for the song, breaking it nicely into more manageable pieces. The addition of a few vocals might have been of a great benefit in this piece, as that's about the only thing I can see the piece lacking all told.

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[[dj-Jo] She (Aftermath Mix)]

Another great effort

A lovely piece that certainly sets you up as a prominent soundsmith on Newgrounds. If anything, it does get a little repetitive, but I think that does tend to be the way with techno, as it can drag on with the same recycled sound and throw a few bits and pieces in to try and make it sound different.

Perhaps a few changes here and there could help - the piano is a great instrument, so why try and drown it out with the rest of the track? Bring it forth and make it join in, where it can take the beat to places that other instruments really have not got a hope of reaching.

Perhaps a few additional instruments would help - if you're playing with the same instruments, it's going to sound the same, but if you change the instruments, you change the sound. Try that on for size.

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