LJCoffee's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Anton]

It's been ages.

Erkie! Really nice work here - odd stuff. Very cinematic though. Aside from a few very minor issues with the volume on certain samples this was a really compelling track. I'm glad that you've throwing your hat back in here. I'm really looking forward to your next piece. Drop me a line when you upload your next. Also... if you're cool with it, could you you dump out a few .WAV's for me for remixing purposes? Let's talk about it a bit. I'll see if I can catch you online sometime.

Erkie responds:

Let's see what you can do to it.

[Finding That Something Special]

Nice synth work, monologue and crunching drums.

I can see where some people might think the intro is a bit long but I thought it was fine. Due to the length of the piece, it does seems a little repetitive in spots - only a bit though. Maybe next time around you should add a break every 4 bars or so to keep it a little more fresh. I guess we could talk about the psychology of that as well - by adding a break or two here in there to make a few bars stand out, you might be able to reinforce the message of the monologue - the breaks representing a person here and there that somehow stands out from the rest... I dunno - nevermind me man...

The drums were certainly nice & crunchy but they could have been a bit sharper - they felt good but a little distant... if that makes sense... Perhaps decreasing the density of the piece might have helped. Not sure how you could go about that though - maybe a gate with some aggressive settings...

I did like the monologue though, it broke the piece up nicely and te reversed reverb on it here and there gave it a sort of dreamy or even dissociative feeling. I've always been a fan of that effect on prose. :)

Overall, I think you could have taken a chance or two and pushed it just a little more, musically - but even where it sits, it's worth a 5/5 from me.

Great job mate!

[Electrick - Sunrise Drive]

Not too bad but it's not really doing it for me...

Honeslty, I didn't care much for this track. Sounds like you compressed it a bit too much - I can hear some of the mp3 artifacting - Oh well though, what can you do right? after all, you gotta use really aggressive compression with limited file sizes.

I can't quite put my finger on it but there is something about the overall mastering that I'm not crazy about. I don't know what it is but the whole track has a ... 80's sort of feel to it maybe?? I didn't really dig the samples - the car samples seemed a bit contrived and the vocals seemed a bit muddy.

As I said in another review, this really isn't my thing though so maybe that's all it is...

Keep making music though - you're good at what you do and even though this doesn't fit my personal tastes, I'm sure that many others out there can dig it.

4/5

[Electrick - Morphology]

Quite the clubby little track aint it? :D

Nice job on it - the chakuhachi sample fit well enough even though it's a little overused. You used a few really nice little tricks here and there - gotta love the reversed kick :)

I don't generally listen to a lot of this stuff but I understand it's appeal.

Not really my style at all but still, I can appreciate the time you put into it.
All in all, this is a solid piece of music and you're obviously talented. Keep it up!

5/5

Electrick responds:

thanks dude!

[Glib - Eye For a Leg]

Nice crossover

Really nice work. It's probably going to get hammered by the Hip-Hop crowd but screw 'em. It's probably a little too ambient/IDM-ish to score well in Hip-Hop but you never know, right? If you had some chopped up lyrics in there I think it would have more crossover appeal - then again, I don't know what I'm talking about most of the time so nevermind me...

5/5

[Treasure These Moments]

Nice track

Very cool stuff here. Loved the way the tail gets chopped off the end of the guitar sample - Blended nicely with the percussion to create a nanic stuttered feel. The vox swells were great - this was a really decent slice of audio cake. Great job on it!
»!5/5!«

pitbulljones responds:

cheers LJC, hehe i think you are on about the riff here aint ya? it's not actually intentionally cut like that, well it kinda is. I don't do my riffs in one go, i do each one separate to keep clarity and minimise hiss, so i usually overlap a bit of each tail then cut to keep the harmonic. But you may have picked it up via headphones i don't know, but if you liked it thats ll that matters.

as previously mentioned the beats were created in FL, then i exported and used the glitch plugin, restraining myself from going absolutley overboard with it to keep some semblance of the original beat, glad to see it works.

Ta on the vox too, i aint the best singer in the world, but it's something that i have started doing in my tracks as i feel a lot of em just need vocals or harmonies to push it into 'proper' tune status. so i am employing my limited vocal talents as best i can now. this track is really crying out for a vocal though and if you know anyone who could possibly do it by all measn let meknow.

thanks again man.

as you know hit me with a PM when you have anything up and i'll come a running.

pitters

[[MS] - Blue Oiled Potatoes]

Damn good stuff...

All around good track. The high end sounded just a hair hollow but that might be my speakers so it's not a big deal. Good bass. Very chilled out track - always nice to hear new stuff on NG that doesn't suck! :D

Keep 'em coming! And start looking into labels.

»!5/5!«

MackerelSalad responds:

this is my first finished track in a while. Haven't got much time, so I reserved a couple of hours for myself for a change. shitty school >8(
I may look into labels next year, or the year after, since I'm getting back a lot of my free time.
Thanks for your review, LJ. :D

[Leave Me Be]

Psychoactives in your cereal

Very cool track - Loved the drums, simple little melody was great. The little melody and the long drawn out whine contrasted nicely with the percussion. Vox were tripped out.

All out great track - listened several times. I'm diggin' it!

Not a single complaint from this side of the puddle.

»!5/5!«

pitbulljones responds:

hehe how do LJC, thanks for the review you crazy dogg, anyways, yea, dead simple track this, the drums were done with the infamous glitch plugin, that guitar constitutes a melody? cool. glad you like the vocals too, may d a few morw with daft manc tones squeelng over a track haha.

thanks again man

pitters

let me know when you have anything up too.

[C.Y.E.S.N.I.A.T.H]

Nice track

Good work all around - synths are nice, the timbres of your instruments are all good. Not much going on with the percussion but I guess that's alright - everything else makes up for it a bit.

Really good work - 5/5

pitbulljones responds:

Yo LJC thanks for the review mate, yea you know me and percussion it's a short and swift relationship, i make what i need to, not what i should lol.

Hope you liked it anyways and thanks again, pm me when you have anything you'd like my opinion on and i'll come running.

pitters