NickPerrin's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Edge of Faith]

Excellent

Sounds absolutely great... I had this on loop this morning right after I got up. The game looks undeniably cool, can't wait to play it. Great work with this track.

NemesisTheory responds:

Thank you! :)
And yes, when you play it, I'm pretty sure you'll agree with me that it's a really cool game :)

[Forest Temple (OoT)]

Well done

Great remake of a great track.... Just been replaying this game, loved this music. Keep it up.

Sorrow-316 responds:

Thank you For your comment =)

[Megaman NES Compilation]

Great! Yes!

10/10 because of the combo of nostalgia and pure musical awesome. That's not fair, using nostalgia to get my ratings!

Haha seriously though, this is surprisingly cohesive, and is a ton of fun to listen to. A great tribute to the music.

EliteFerrex responds:

Wow, a review from the master of 8-bit! Thanks a lot for your support! =D

[Thinking In Slow Motion]

The people have spoken!

Thanks for the kind review. Whatever the case, you've got #1, and it's an impressive thing. Who's the guy below who said "I'm into the guy stuff/it's good if you're a girl"? I guess I forgot to change the gender mode on my DAW. haha I just don't get some people's attitudes towards music, like it's an accesory or something.

On to the song - nice that a year old song got so much attention! Really mellow tune, but also soothing, and not draining. The (presumably sampled) acoustic guitar sounded rigid/hard-picked, otherwise sonically this track is quite excellent. Very much like its title, it slows down your thought and provides escape. Because it is relatively simple, listening to the track is easy to just enjoy, first listen or fourth.

Nice work. Let's see if we can grab top spots again in a week or two, sound good? haha

SuperGoodSound responds:

yeah - geez. no kidding. a twofer would be cool. lol. I mean, 11 thousand plays, you know? That just sounds so extraordinary. And to think I like never take myself seriously.

But I should probably go back and try to make the song "more metal" like the guy mentioned above. The world I guess is just not ready for this piece here... : )

[Thracian-Jazz]

Excellent

Amazing rhythms and textures... such an engrossing feel, especially with the use of the Kaval. I would write a more detailed review but I am tired coming back from work today. Suffice to say, this is exactly the song I needed to hear tonight... I'm glad I clicked the jazz section today!

sorohanro responds:

thanx, i appreciate this
there are a lot of very good artists in the jazz section (No1r, Xerochi and many more ...)

[Requiem for the Great Citizen]

Great

Very touching stuff. Reminds me that I need to listen to more Shostakovich. So apparently you were gone for a while? Anyway, good to have you back with some new music! Simple but effective orchestration - the few "abrupt", for lack of a better word, transitions from strings to woodwinds really add a lot of colour to the piece. It manages to be grand and sweeping without overdoing it, which is nice when most are throwing everything they can at the listener to overwhelm them. Oops, I think I do that. Haha.

Also, sounds like it would make great videogame music. I can visualize Pokemon jumping around and battling to this music.

Hahahaha just kidding.... Keep up the good work.

--NP

Winterwind-NS responds:

Nick!
Yeah, I don't know what people are talking about, I don't think I ever left.
Haha pokemon, totally. Anyways, listen to more Shostakovitch now!
and thanks for the kind review.

-Winter

[Scribbler - The Broken Keys]

Nice!

Quite enjoyable and effective in its simplicity.
As others have said, this piece suffers due to the piano sound alone. This sounds like default GM midi, taking all the expressiveness and dynamics out of a piece that would sound twice as good if those factors were more apparent.
You say "It's really because I don't know how to use VST's really well and prefer the sound of a real instrument over a synthetic instrument... "
I would say get even a piano VST. Even a low-end one would sound better than this. Good VSTs sound closer and closer to the real thing. Having a quality piano instrument to record this with would not make it any less "raw" and "live", it would only improve it.

Good stuff, keep it up!

Scribbler responds:

I agree, the piano isn't the best sounding one but it's all I can use at this point in time. I will ook into VSTs like you said and will definitely keep producing stuff.

Thanks for the review.

[Piano Dance]

Cool, but...

Cool, but the track doesn't carry enough weight or complexity to be a solo piano track. The progression and style could be added onto easily, luckily. More would have to be added to this for the piano to stand alone in this track.

Would work great as part of a bigger mix, though, for sure!

DjSirah responds:

well, remix it if you feel for it :D
I can sure try too ^^

[~'{Awaken}'~]

Hey!

This song really reminds of the IT (Impulse tracker) music from the game "Deus Ex", the first one that came out in 2000. Not only is the musical style hugely similar but the sound is as well - the pizzicato strings at the beginning are especially familiar in timbre.

Overall, this song was not amazing but could benefit from better sampler instruments, I reckon. However, it was a pretty solid track, just found parts here and there a bit weak. With more realistic and intense software instruments this track's impact would double! A good listen, no doubt.

As for the genre, I'd stick it in videogame, seems to fit the "electro-rock" style that can't really be named otherwise.

Keep it up.

Kid2Will responds:

Thanks well, maybe video game genre would be good, since I usually think about one while creating music.

Thanks for the review!

[Bells-]

Excellent

A heavily-textured, complex, well-orchestrated and interesting piece. Only thing that bugs me is the extremely simple piano part - for some reason I feel like it would be a waste of a concert pianist, haha. But with no other instrument or combination of instruments can you get that specific sound, so it tends to work pretty well in the context of this song. All the little flourishes of strings, bells, oboe, and the brass "rips" are a great touch.

I love it, keep it up!

sorohanro responds:

thanx
that with piano doubling the bass line and play simple things you can hear in several classical works (The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns ) and also some film scores (Dick Tracy by Danny Elfmann)
well, i didn't calculate anything, this popped into my mind like it is, in a very specific moment
i think my mind transpose feeling directly into music sometimes... lucky me :))
thanx for your nice words