Pingu's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[The New Road]

I like the buildup at the 0:15 mark. Good mix of piano and synth notes to keep it interesting all the way through. Not much of a fade out, but you did a good job of removing enough elements to know the song was coming to a close. Good work!

[Warm Up]

This has a nice vibe to it. If I was to draw a comparison, I find some inspiration in the music of Boards of Canada. Good unifying beat with some nice ambient/experimental flavours. Good work!

[Somebody just told me]

Good use of shifting the balance to left/right output, it comes across fairly well on headphones but has the side effect of lowering the volume in the off-shifted side. You've done well at keeping a good base line while also adding or taking away various elements to keep it varied but also tied together. Good work, keep it up!

Alyctro responds:

Your response is appreciated! I think i know what you mean.

[The Electric House]

Pretty good for a first submission! You seem to be getting a good handle on FL Studio, which will hopefully lead to more audio submissions. Do check out the rest of the site as well, NG has a lot to offer.

I'm curious what the seven seconds gap from 2:17-2:24 is about? I've seen them before where they have a very low-intensity something to keep the track linked together instead of silence.

EyeBricksStudios responds:

I agree that was a bit of a random gap. I didn't realise until now that I didn't have any Tape Delay on the sounds(echos) which made an awkward silence. The thing that was the most difficult was the mixing. Every now and then when all tracks were playing, they kept drowning out others.

[Quasar]

Starts out by diving you right into the deep end, which can be good if you like the ear-shock of your 7.1 headphones at max volume. That's on me, though I'd be curious to see some of the buildup of the 0:55 mark on the front end to allow a few seconds of adjustment leeway since there's already an 8 second lead out at the end.

Nice buildup to the 1:49 mark, and I can definitely hear where you got the title from, as it does have an interstellar feel to it.

Good beats all the way through, with some well placed changes in tempo to keep it from being repetitive.

Found on NG Radio. Nice work, faved.

DJ-Doty responds:

Thank you so much Peregrinus! I'm really glad you liked it. Also, thanks for your input! I hadn't noticed 0:55 it until you mentioned it, I'll look into it. :)
ty for the fav! Have a nice day! :D

[The Gift of Grace]

Nice track, it came up in the NG Radio feed.

I know I've heard strings in a trance song before, but I don't think I've ever heard piano in one, and I love how well the two go together. The transition to and from the piano solo was nice, and led to a great buildup back into the trance portion.

The strings were a great way to intro/outro the track, it helped avoid feeling jarred with a sudden start/stop.

I'll check out your other work, this one's gone into my faves!

[Crying Soul (Scratch RMX)]

I like it

I like hearing a good new take on a good song. Dance isn't a category I dip into often, but when I hear submissions like this, it makes me want to hear more.

It's good that you added you own twist by replacing the "Die bitch" with your own opener.

I gave this a 5 and a download (damn you! Now I have a "Dance" section to my library!)

nal1200 responds:

It's like a dance virus!

[-=z3=-Cold]

Nice

A very smooth song. I don't really know how to describe my feelings towards this song; it's a good track, and it invokes certain images in my mind. I can't really describe them, but whatever.

You have the potential to be a great artist with works like this. I hope to check back in the future and see more tunes like this from you.

5, and a download :)

Zn3tz responds:

Thanx man! Now that you want more I just have to speed up my work :)
thanx again

[Psybot - Heaven cries 2008]

Very Nice

Very nice work. Smooth transitions, clear sound, good catchy beat.

I'll be sure to check out you other submissions. :)

[Extra Terrestrial--_--(3:15)]

Different

A definite alteration of the style I've come to associate with you, but still has your sound to it.

I can certainly see why you named it what you did :P

I have a question that I've always been wondering about: Is there any reason you have "--__--" in the titles of all your audio? Just a quirk, or is there a fancy story behind this?

Anyways, back to the track: not one of my favorites, but still pretty cool. The one specific thing I didn't like was the ending. It seemed too short, and to me it seemed to kind of not give a sense of closure to the song. I mean, it feels like an abrupt end and transition if it's playing in a playlist. It just cuts to something totally different without giving the listener time to know it's over.

Just my thought.
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5/5 and a download: "Because I can"

PERVOK responds:

Its not often I get asked why I have the quadriple hyphen sleepy face, so I'll tell you the story behind it :)

A while ago, when I was just starting to submit to Newgrounds, I felt a huge rush to submit to newgrounds. I was making at least like, 3 or 4 songs a day. Sometimes 5. Thus why I have so many :P

But, one time I made a song at like, 4 or 5 in the morning or something, and I put a quadriple hyphen sleepy face in the name of the song just to show that I was really freakin' tired when I made it.

I made the song "mindless--_--" where I used the sleepy face for the first time so people could know it was me. Then, I never used it again until I made "mindless--_--PT 2" and by then, I had realized that this little funny lookin' sleepy face has made it so people recognize that all those millions of songs that are popping into the uaiod portal are by ME.

So, it stuck with me. I tried other ones, like the triple squared one (I was going to use that whenever I made a dNb song... go check out my older songs and see for yourself) but since it had no significance to anything, I never kept on doing it.

So yeah. Now you know.

Thanks for the review!