LJCoffee's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Break Their Bones--_--LOOP]

Good stuff

Nice work - you're just kicking ass and taking anmes aren't you?

You get all 9's so that way I have somewhere to go to when you get the thing completely finished.

You'll get teh 5 too!

I'd love to hear the final - if it's too big for NG then please email it to me! please!

I've never been a huge trance fan in general but you seem to have developed a style and sound of your own and I think that it works really well.

I love that you don't stick to those sickly sweet happy little major chord progressions - I really dig the tnsion in this piece.

You keep this up and you'll be swimming in women (if you aren't already) You can get a pile of raver chicks together and put 'em all in a cuddle puddle to sleep on at night. you lucky little bastard!!!

GET SIGNED ALREADY - make some money - be famous - get the cars, the estate, the jet, and everything that goes with it. Don't be afraid to sell a little of your soul and grab for that brass ring man - you've got an immense amount of talent and it will take you places if you let it!

Just remember to say hi once you get there!

talk to you later

PERVOK responds:

Psh, if I get up there, I'm totally going to take you up there with me :D

Oh, and with that song, I'm going to host it on a site, then post it in the advertisements thread. So you all can enoy the all 12 minutes of it :D

Thanks for the review!

[-API- Toys]

you da man!

I can dig it...

Really nice job so far - didn't care for the pads so much but the rest was tops!

I really like the incomplete/disliked/experimental/stupid stuff

5/5 from me

[As a bird flies high]

Not really my thing, but....

This isn't my favorite style of music but I do think that it was very well done.

Excellent work - you're very talented. This would make great vespa cruising music :D

I see that you have music in many genres - I love that you are capable of producing different styles. Many people here stick to only one type of music and seem to be afraid to experiment a little.

I'll listen to and review more of your stuff when I have more time.

this get's a 5

No1r responds:

And i'll not never say enough how you, reviewers, make me pleasured with your comments :) Really thank you for your kind words. I like experiment also because i listen to a lot of genres. My love for music is nearly 360 :)

[Opening the stargate]

Very well done

Clean production - very well put together!

The swing beat gave it a very unusual feel - good though.

5/5

No1r responds:

Yup, swing beat has something -magical- for me..and i love to put it together with other stuff as pads, choirs and electronic sounds..:)
Thanks for your review and vote! (0 voters you suck!)

[Brooklyn]

a little syncopation eh?

Syncopation never hurt anyone! - Something about this sounds so familiar though - I can't quite put my finger on it... Pre-Existing loops maybe? Can't tell..

Either way - it's quite smooth enough and it goes down nice and easy so it gets a 5.

I love that you're experimenting a little with glitching up the track a bit. That's my thing - really glitchy filthy percussion - You could have pushed it a bit farther - make the transition from smooth to really chopped up.

Keep it up though - really nice work.

I mentioned in another review that you should consider a hip-hop/idm mix - I've been looking for a hip-hop artist or two that would be interested in a collab like that - if you're interested then contact me and we'll blow the doors off of this place.

Quriky responds:

Mos defiate Ill get back to you on that foe sure glad you liked it!!

[Lulaby (No Mercy Mix)]

Nice track

The piano could have been either a little more Rhodesish or a little more music-boxy this sounded like it fell right in between - I would have liked a smoother set of keys. Perhaps an ever so slightly longer attack?

The hits were... a little less than awesome but not too bad overall. The Vox took away - you really should have processed it a little. the whole ya-ga-yaw thing just didn't feel right - sounded more like someones laxative was kickin in and they were trying not to shit themself...

:D

The SFX that you used for the transition between the lullaby and the hook was way too high - both in colume and in frequency.

Your percussion was good and the melody itself was also nice.

Overall a good job though - I'd love to hear something like this segway into some IDM but then that's not really your style - it could work though - if you ever want to try it just contact me.

I'm voting 4 - there was too much more you could have done with this and it seemed to end very abrubptly.

One of your better tracks though!

peace

Quriky responds:

Thanks ill think about it but Iuno what IDM is? lol

[South Side VS West Side]

Hmmmm

Needs a little polich here and there - beats themselves are alright if a little repetitive but that's not necessarily a bad thing for this style.

I have to be honest - I hated the timbres - the instruments used for the bassline were annoying - they felt way too thin and weak which took away from the piece. Fatten up that bass - add a subbass perhaps?

Not sure if you're sidechaining or compressing the persussion but - or if you're even doing either - again - my biggest complaint was that it just wasn't fat enough - the gated drums were good but the overall impression of this track was that it was an amateur piece.

To fix that you'll need to get better samples and work on the instruments a little.

Other than that it was decent work - I'm voting 4/5 on this.

Quriky responds:

yeah threw this together at three in the morn jumped up made that sick bass thing but timbre i could of put more thought intothanks for the input

[Rucklo - Teknokrator]

Awesome job as usual!

Damn Rucklo - you da man!

Really nice work here - absolutely top notch.

you get teh 5!

Rucklo responds:

Hey man! Glad ya enjoyed this old piece of shit :D

<3

Thanx alot mate!

[RGH: Legendary Blue]

Excellent work!

completely wrong genre though :)

There's very little about this that I would consider ambient - I think you'd get a lot more downloads if it were submitted under a different genre. Sounded like a mix of VG and Orchestral to me - but then, what do I know...

All around great work though RyeGuy!

This was a well constructed bit of music.

The only thing that I could suggest is that you vary the velocity of your notes to make it more dynamic and to give the feeling that it was actually played by a person.

More often than not, when people use piano, or most other instrumetns for that matter, they forget to adjust the velocity for the notes and every note sounds like it was hit with the same exact amount or pressure - which in effect it is... This is usually a dead giveaway that it was sequenced and I personally feel that it takes away from the piece just a bit.

Try it with your next submission and if I'm wrong then I apologize but I think it'll help give your music a new level of expression.

Keep it up man - this is fantastic work and it most definitely rates my 5!

RyeGuyHead responds:

I think youll see the velocity changes in the piano in spring daze...
thanks for the advice

[Defcon Zero PX9- Remix]

Ahhh, the obligatory PX9 remix

OK - the 8 for originality is actually pretty high - usually anything that's a remix will get a lower score in that area from me but I added a few back on because this is actually a very different and quite original interpretation of the song.

Diversity only lost a point - not sure why - it just felt right.

Quite clear enough for the portal.

Effort - lost a single point and only because I think you could have pushed this just a hair parther - the slower tempo in the beginning almost made me expect a huge tempo change - yes that may be trite but still, I think it could have been very cool - go from half to original tempo to double... no worries because:

Overall I'm scoring it 9 and 5

I'm sure that if you spread word around a bit this would be picked up for a submission.

amibent responds:

Thanks...
I gotta keep up with posting