Splagawaga's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Your Mom Took Acid]

drowned

the intro sounds like a computer-person trying to load unsuccesfully underwater. whilst something is smashing into the side of the spaceship. and i mean that in the best possible way :) very cool disjointed vibe to this track. the mashed up vocals completes things very well. dirty dirty underwater loading robot.

LJCoffee responds:

Yeah sort of an industrial fell to this one I think. Just another in a series of taffytracks.
That's what I'll start calling them anyways.

Here's an impromptu taffytrack recipe:

Dump a pile of samples into a bowl

Start pulling, kneading, stretching and blending until you see some sort of cohesion.

Put the whole mess on the automatic stretcher and let it process for a while - then you export it as an mp3 and upload it...

:D

[Under the Influence]

m33p

the crispy percussion sounds great. and the growling bass is juicey.

i wasnt so keen on the piano&chord section it moved into. it seemed to lose its attitude a bit. the production as with alot of other tracks of yours is v good. The industrial feel of the beginning i really liked.

LJCoffee responds:

A few peeps didn't seem to care for the piano bits... that's why it was remixed.

We're getting into older tracks here that were made on slightly older equipment - anything from this time is difficult really - a lot of it was mastered through cans and so it loses something when played back on externals.

[Echo Location]

latindub

ooo latin dub, very strange. smooth mood to this one. the wailey synth is nice too. nice rhythmical changes, the first step up to doubletime makes the bassline roll really nice. then the break back to a blockrocking sort of beat is subtle but effective.

same criticism for this as for alot of yours. nice loop but not too much progression. nonetheless a really solid loop.

perhaps a little too much reverb washing around?

LJCoffee responds:

:D

Well - there were plenty of mistaked in there - glitches (the UNintentional kind) and what-not.

Not a huge fan of this track.

[Restricted Excess]

blarg

the half time sections i really enjoyed, strong groove and nice clangy synth sounds. the muffled stabs combined with the reverse pad works well. when the dnb beat came in and it doubled up nothing seemed to happen to it. could do with either changing up into more of a fully fledged dnb track or being 100% halftime, the break out back to halftime was very nice to i'd be inclined to try both. certainly a good idea that needs exploring, slick indeed.

LJCoffee responds:

Yehhh... sort of a wanna-be matrixy piece I guess... so many people were doing it - I just wanted to be one of the cool kids you know? haha :D

[Jase & Bazz]

weird

very strange intro i really couldnt place what mood u were going for, but thats definately a good thing. the bassline has a sort of drumnbass clubby feel to it while the background melody is something totally different. reminds me of the way 'classical music' drifts easily between happy sad dark light etc.

only thing i didnt like was the snare in the hook. it sounds far to fake and sticks out quite a bit. dont really know what to suggest, perhaps not so many [] short cuts on the snare.

otherwise a very nice track.

LJCoffee responds:

Ahh yes - one of the first things up on NG from my end... I had just finished listening to a bunch of EZ Rollers stuff and I guess I was sort of influenced by that.

Made on headphones - I didn't get to appreciate how bad the mix was on speakers until a while later...

[Downtempo Phosphorus]

thyroid

im a friend of pedro and he suggested i get on newsgrounds, im checking all the people he recommended and i can see why he mentioned u.

this is a really nice polished track. the subtle wah guitar and filter ghost beats sound great. it sounds ever so slightly reggae. a very nice track indeed. my only criticism is that it almost sounds like a demo track for cubase or some such program. that said, its still extremely nice. the key change in the middle keeps it fresh each loop. and it does seem to loop seemlessly. im on the 4 or 5th? no 6th? loop now.

seemless...

LJCoffee responds:

Phew.... Aaaaaand DONE!

Last response to a TRUCKLOAD of (much appreciaited) reviews.

Ha ha - I like your criticism - it sounds like a demo track ... I guess that's not necessarily a bad thing though - I'm going to pretend that it means "Wow, that has such mass appeal that it should be used to promote music software!"

:D

Thanks!