Cyberdevil's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[greggs sausage roll]

Confusing is the name, but the melody actually is a jamming!

This wasn't bad at all... the arrangement's solid, though the actual sound of the instruments feels very FL Studio like. The electric guitar especially doesn't really have that 'life' you expect a guitar to have, with a variable range and distortion - it's always the same throughout.

Work a bit more on instrument tones and production overall and you've got something really good going here I think!

Percussion may be a bit flat and simple too, but IMO the electric guitar feels like the most important focus in getting this to really sound 'alive'.

Good track overall! Good melody. Good atmosphere too.

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[Reflections]

It definitely does not stop!!! XD Until it does but... loops easy enough. Either it stops or it starts over forever and ever!

I like the vocal effects, especially the oOoOoOh bits, very transient and atmospheric... the rest of the track's a bit too fast for me I think, even though there's an appreciative continuity to the background layers, so you have both that faster foreground action and the continuous; atmospheric backing that goes on throughout...

The composition's great though, production quality clear and airy too, nicely done!

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[Geekum - Spooky]

Seems a bit more beautiful than spooky to me this one, though do like the vibe!

The 'ooh' type bass that kicks in towards the end was a cool effect too, good variation.

Production quality's on point too; this'd be a great beat to ride over! Good stuff.

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ur exactly correct, this was originally made to an intrumental/backing track for vocals.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