dj-padman1's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[WC > Blanket]

Wonderful

Watercolour, you never fail to impress.
Excellent chilled atmosphere, I really enjoy the subdued melody that you introduce after the cymbal in the introduction. The water drop fx you use is a very nice touch. Nice sine beats drifting in and out throughout.
There's a huge amount of variety here, and its flows along very pleasantly. Sounds like almost a jazzy acoustic drumloop you introduce in the second half.
Very pleasing fx throughout, it shows when a lot of time has been taken in placing them effectively.
Top stuff mate!

StrangeEncounters responds:

Hey man! Thanks alot! It really feels good getting a review from you. I also like that drum loop. Altho I think I could've layed some glitchwork on the drums. Anyways. Thank!

[Pooding Cosby]

Cosby rocks

Best Cosby track I've ever heard. Its cool when the piano takes on a darker tone later on. Good scratching at the start, I thought at the start when you introduce those hiphop sounding stabs you were going to introduce a phat hiphop drumloop, but we get some piano instead. Surprising!

Dawei responds:

I finally have a review besides my friend's named Morrisey

[Super Mario 64 | Jolly Roger]

Tasty

Nice remix. The tempo is spot on, the chords are all true to the original. The mix is really clean and full so congratz for that. When you bring the acoustic drums in I'm loving it. Really gives it some energy.
Keep crankin' em' out. ;)

D-A-J responds:

Thx for that review... ;)
Cheers

[Gun Shy]

Good stuff mate

Very good track! The guitars are really addictive, I could listen to this one for quite some time. There's not a great deal of development in the track, but its a nice groove. Slightly sinister tone, I like it ;)
This track would probably get a bit more love in the 'Video Game' category. I can see why you put it in ambient though, as it has a lot of atmosphere.
Keep up the good work.

Momo-the-Monkey responds:

well, thankyou! And yea, i figured, "Hey, why put it in the video game catagory, when i could be safe and put it in the ambient catagory?" I just figured that i might get some flame for putting it in the video game catagory with having nothing to do with video games.

And you're right, i could listen to this one for hours. Another one you might like is Dance of the Robots.

[Q-Bix: Lightning strike]

good stuff!

Considering its your first track up, its really great! The beat is nice and upbeat, perhaps the snare could have a bit more impact, but the beat drives the track along nicely.
Good variety of the acid synths and the more melodic ones and mixed really well which is a good sign at this early stage! Personally, I took AGES to get that under control.
Well, keep up the good work!

bjoaierjbioaerjgoerj responds:

thanx!

Q-Bix

[Ultimatron 3000]

NG on lock, yea boi...

I like it heaps. Sounds like a backing track Dre might come up with. The rap is tight, and I'm a sucker for the whole vocoder/speech synth idea. The Einstein line was aight foo'.

Very inventive, I enjoyed it.

cornandbeans responds:

XD yay. I really had to work with some pronounciation things, Einstien sounded like eenstin, so I had to make it Eyn-styen... :P I'm glad you found it entertaining, I sure was doing so writing it. Thanks!

~cornandbeans

[Collab! [XI and Cornandbeans]]

Nice one!

Cool track. Groovy acoustic drums at the start, I get definate ATB vibes from the piano part. I was missing a mightier electronic bass-line but thats just personal prejudice on my part!
Oh, here's the electronics! nice combination with the natural elements. Nice chord progressions,and I would definitely say the same for the first half. You build it up very well, but the bassline doesn't do much for me I have to say. I'm a bit over the off-beat bass.
Nice rich, full feeling when you drop in the pads and the lead elements. The chord progression is very strong. Damn, it ended too soon. It was rockin!
Simple and effective. Nice collab, good to see some teamwork on here!

cornandbeans responds:

I'm glad you enjoyed it! XI and myself thank you for you great review. I'm the one responsible for the length, though.. poo. I hope to get to make more music with XI and you sometime soon! or maybe even a... 3-way collab! :| wemgee. that would be fancy!

[Assimilation]

Very well done

Hey, the production is spot on! Great mix and 'full steam ahead' feel that gets you hooked. A huge amount of diversity, I thought the trancy midsection was really effective in breaking up the track. Nice bubbly 303 throughout, its pretty commercial but there's nothing wrong with that. Lol, the panned (snare or tom) percussion sounds like the riff from 'The Bongo Song'.
I'll have to listen to your others, this one is excellent.

NemesisTheory responds:

Hey man, thanks for the review. I'm glad you liked it. :) And yes actually, that drum rif is actually inspired from the one from Safri Duo, thought it really went well with the song. :)

[Fleep (Bleeps lil brother)]

Nice one!

Well put together track Syntrus. Very good evolution in the song, everything nicely in balance, especially when you introduce the plucked synth, the pads co-operate in a very nice way and its always interesting.
It felt like you were building up to something afterwards. I was a bit surprised when the track dropped back to the original bass/beats section. The lead synth sounds great in this one, that opens and closes the track, and plays throughout is really good, but it feels a bit old, like I've heard it heaps. Maybe mess with it a bit to make it a bit more fresh. The same logic could apply to the kick maybe, I dunno, but it sounds good anyway! I'm probably just a fussy bastard. :P
Other than that, this was really cool. I'd rate it a solid 4, so hopefully the 5 brings it a bit closer to that!
Keep up the good work.

Syntrus responds:

lol fussy basterd that makes me laugh

[speed trap.]

Verrrry nice

man, don't even think about quitting. Every one goes through times when they're sick of it, but just remember how you feel when you make something you're proud of.
By the way, sorry I've been out of touch, I've been REALLY goddamn busy lately! Thanks for your MSN, I'll be sure to add you :P

This one is nicely different. I can imagine it in a boss fight. The intro is where the characters see the boss for the first time, then the arps represent the massive battle that follows. Those are some very tasty arps by the way, nice melodic progression. I like the phasered synth. Its cool how you've doubled up the high synth with the phasered mid-range synth! The percussion at the start does seem a little bit uneven, and there's not many drums throughout the song, but I guess you don't need much in a track like this.
keep going man, this is good stuff!

MuSic-Creater responds:

har hae thans man sry for late reaply bin busuy working on the tf resurge stuff UR HARDLY ON MSN =( so how can we collab? XD thanx for the reveiw ill reveiw ur stuff laters keep up the progres i love ur fuken neww dnb song =)