Corona688's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[-Control: Sentiment-]

Interesting, reminds me a bit of an old MOD tune, "star technologies".

[This Won't Last (DEMO)]

I don't understand this to be punk, but it's quite nice for that. As you say it's kind of sketchy, sometimes your voice is too quiet to make out, sometimes it drowns out the guitar, and isn't always quite in sync, but as you say with some work this could be quite interesting. Keep chipping at it.

Keegs responds:

Yeah, I feel it. I only did three vocal passes so everything's pretty sketchy. But like I said, I only had a few hours to hammer this out! :p

[-Endgame-]

Very fun.

[Night Chains 2]

This is seriously impressive. Your mastering has improved a LOT since I last wrote a review. I like your instruments, melodies, and arrangements quite a lot. Your music seems to be leading in directions where before it kind of meandered around.

I just wish I understood why you refuse to stop adding monotone voice to everything you make. You've picked a nice voice artist but the way you've slapped it in there -- without rhyme or rhythm, drowning out and clashing with the music -- is really jarring and breaks up the rhythm. I kind of shut my ears off and wait for those parts to be over.

Without the voice, this would be a four-star, at least.

[Demolition Run]

An incredible feeling of nostalgia for something I'd never heard before. Happy to hear this isn't the only project like this you're up to.

As for style, if it's not rock, 'instrumental rock' maybe?

Devastus responds:

Possibly yeah, though at the same time it's more disco-oriented with the basic beat and electronic stuff in it. I reckon there is no correct solution to this mystery :P

Glad you like it!

[-Grid voyage-]

I admit I was skeptical. "Another cheerful Waterflame. How many patterns before it becomes Race Around the World, again?"

It did not.

It has elements of your instrumental STYLE yet DOESN'T emulate the patterns, rhythms, and arrangements of 'race around the world' or even resemble them. My brain resynced every time it broke the mold and failed to follow the pattern I predicted.

It's something new. It's great. :)

The drums seemed a little excessive until I read the description, that's an 80's sounding drum track all right.

Waterflame responds:

Thank you! Glad to hear that! This is one of those tracks where I really tried to expand and break out, try something new, So its great to hear that It comes across :)

[it Can't Rain Everyday]

The introduction needs work... about two minutes in is when I would've started the song.

Then it became real interesting, though.

[~[Asteroid Dance V2]~]

Not bad, but the excess reverb makes it mushy in places, and the complete and total lack of percussion kind of robs it of presence.

[[Gyges]*]

I will be blunt -- in trying to make this your own, you've thrown out everything which made the original fun but didn't really add much else.

The song has no melody, just a single repeating pattern and some boilerplate wub-wubs (to reassure the listener it's actually dubstep). I can only assume the very out-of-place violin solo of the actual melody is so you can still call this "Gyges".

To be fair, the sheer energy of the original is very hard to catch.

[Fear Factory Elite]

I've never been interested in donkey kong country until now... Not to mention your album, suddenly interested in that.

Only issue that bugs me a little is this song doesn't loop too well.

Yeah, it wasn't likely Nintendo was going to let you sell a remix.