Cyberdevil's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Junglejazz Temple]

So jazzy! So rich and vibrant. Somewhat monotone after a while though NGL! Like it's intended to be a beat more so than a standalone song. An instrumental backing for something more; something that keeps it progressing even when the beat stays the same. Apart from the initial build with the intro it feels like it's pretty much all the same loop all the way through...

It's hella rich though. Love the sound. Little repetitive as is.

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bananam69 responds:

ur exactly correct, this was originally made to an intrumental/backing track for vocals. good ears man

[Sand in Bazarsopolis]

For a while this reminds me of a Blink 182 song. :) Just briefly, the 0:41 part...

Otherwise it really has an airy, exotic kind of vibe to it. Mysterious sometimes. Slow and atmospheric, but not ominous... the percussion really provides a good backing, both the more standard set and the tribal, djembe-like ones in back... they really adapt to the music overall. Never too much. Good transitions. Good beginning, good end.

The melody itself never grows stale either, it keeps evolving, yet keeps the red thread throughout...

It feels a bit short, would've liked it to go longer, but then again I really like how it turned out too. The atmosphere here's special... you can almost smell the sand, the warm dust and glimmer of a distant sun... it builds the setting well. And the groove's dynamic and rich.

Nice work.

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DaxCamdaxian responds:

I thought a lot about how to give that feeling of being in a bazaar walking through the sand.

I imagine that those who play this tune are characterized with their turbans, their rough cloth garments wrapped between their arms, covering part of their face, and their rustic instruments made of carved wood, and in the middle of them, a punk drummer.

Thanks for giving it a listen :)

[[Touhou Project ~ UFO] Heian Alien]

Eerie, atmospheric, ominous for a while before it really starts going full force forward...

It has that somewhat typical spooky kind of melody throughout, but so many layers beyond it, and pace shifts, pauses, the piano always hitting just the right; most titilating notes when it goes... the beat's comparatively simple, but functional; backs the track in a good way.

The instrumental sections do repeat themselves, but it never gets repetitive per se, the atmosphere holds all the way... love the slow fade with the ending too.

Nice work.

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[Sakuya VS Cirno ~ Beloved Flowering Tomboyish Night]

It's fast, it's energic, it's abrim with epicness and atmosphere!

Gets me thinking of games like Castlevania. Cinematic and adventurous. Both tense and victorious all the way throughout. Like you're fighting your fight, and you're winning it, always moving on, always with resolve and conviction...

Impressively well-composed and mixed too, even if that base melody kinda gets on your nerves occasionally. :) Like folk music. The softer breaks are really impeccable in comparison. Never repetitive at all. And the builds. The fanfare-like crescendo before the journey picks up again...

Awesome work on this.

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sylvysprit responds:

Thank you, it's nice that people still interact with things on Newgrounds

[Kudu]

Feels like Egypt this one, or Babylon, some ancient civilization on the rise...

Love the tempo changes and build... though the structure also at times feels a little aimless, intricate though the sound may be. It builds and breaks and keeps going, but takes a while to truly reach the crescendo I'm waiting for.

A little shorter might've been better maybe... or a different structure, a longer build for a minute or two, it builds relatively quickly, but has to pause and slow down to keep going again. There's so much progress in just the first minute, then not much structure at all for a long time, the red thread feels lost a bit.

I love the style though, the atmosphere! Reminds me of The Comet is Coming too, a jazz band with a style somewhat similar to this, by far my favorite within the genre!

This was great. Though structure-wise it feels a bit like pieces of a puzzle... that haven't totally fallen into place.

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ClitBait responds:

idk why i tend to make weird structures xD

[Autumn]

The beat comes in pretty suddenly hmm. :)

A lot of things about this feel unconventional, not just the intro timing, but the occasional pause and reconfiguration even later on. The instrumentation too feels like a mixture of something you'd hear in a game and something older, almost medieval... it's like folk and fantasy music in one, and like both a celebration and a saga; a bedtime story of sorts...

The tone overall's real soothing too. I love the vibe. The march-like drums. The dreaminess...

Mix is clear and airy too. Overall a feelgood and fun little piece. Personally I correlate autumn to despair and darkness buuut... maybe if I play this it won't be so bleak next time!

Good stuff.

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[Sunlight]

Ooh this feels epic straight from the intro, something grand about to build, something so much bigger than but the light from the sun... though maybe there is nothing bigger than the rad radiance of that fiery orb up in our cosmos after all!

The breaks come at suitable intervals, the build keeps going... it feels a bit like the theme song in that Tom Cruise movie when the same event plays over and over again, in a great sci-fi battle across the pond, so maybe that's why I correlate the sound to a special kind of epicness...

The dubstep's definitely all new though. :) Yet the clarity and light stays with it all the way through. Bit loud though, you maybe lose some range there.

This was cool. Cool how it keeps evolving across the duration of the track too. Never stagnant, never still. Rays playing and rising, great and enticing...

Great track.

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[Unidentified Fancy Object]

Such a happy and joyous song. :)

It feels reminiscent of something. Some game intro, some anime, something I've partaken in at some point in time some time, though I can't seem to place the similarity...

I love the vibe though! Upbeat and reminiscent both, with a tonality that seems both merry and melancholy at the same time too, like a grand adventure that's come to an end. Like the music that plays as the credits start to roll, and you recount all the awesome experiences you've had along the way...

Sound quality's crisp and airy too. Good mix; good melody; good everything here!

Love the title too. XD

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[GenesisY2K TRANSGRESSIONS Master Loop]

This was dreamy... appreciative layers and nuances to the sound. A good pace, somewhat psychedelic sci-fi vibe, an almost knife-like kind of percussion... the sound's great, production's great, the loop though... it doesn't loop does it! Not perfectly. Considering the title you'd think it'd be seamless. ;)

Dope work though.

I could see this working well for a soundtrack of sorts too...

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MrSignmeout responds:

thank you. this was gonna be used for an old project thats been indefinitely put on the backburner cuz ive lost interest for now. the "loop" part was more for my idea of using the four segments individually but here its all stitched together