Bezman's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Field of White]

beautiful

Kinda reminds me of something by Faithless.

The instrument that comes in at 0:24 and drives the piece is cool, but a tiny bit loud for my tastes (in comparison to the rest of the stuff).

The beats you have going on are great - there's a great amount of variation in there and it's all interesting patterns.

When the piano-style instrument starts up, it comes to life, and around 0:49, it starts turning into something beautiful.

The piano melody around 1:20 is so beautiful, flowing... that's my favourite part of the piece.

The background noise kinda reminds me of the sea.

The long synthed violinny-type noises that come in around 2:00 remind me of flying and I love the ending.

There's not a bad thing to say about this as a piece. Full of variation, I enjoyed listening to it over and over and reckon I'll put it on my MP3 player (which I only ever have around 25 songs on).

It's beautiful. The only reason I'm not giving it a '10' is because after around 6 listens, it got a bit samey and I yearned for yet more subtle variations in the various layers.

By the way, do you have any loops to your name? I'd love to maybe be able to use something with that beauty in a fitting game.

[Wakeup You Mofo!]

Lovely leading melody. I think of flying(&water).

I enjoyed the distorted voice at the start, although it sounds like he's saying 'Wake up my friend!'.

I think it could use some louder punctuations at the start if it's meant to be a tune for use for waking folk up.

I do love the simple melody that carries the whole piece. Beats are great and I like the notes of the kinda 'electriccy' instrument, though it got slightly grating for me.

It's probably not meant for use as a loop, but it loops moderately well too.

I'm saddened to hear this won't be finished. With a bit more diversity and a better looping (maybe by starting with the melody in place alone?) it'd kick ass in a game about flying. Or maybe a fast-paced puzzle game with soft pastelly colours.

Or maybe just now, it could work well in a rhythm-based game where it runs for a single loop?

You have a great talent for peaceful, gentle melodies. This tune remind me of flying, stars, water, rainfall, rainbows, birds and other soft and gentle things.

[The Waterry Hole]

I wish the bass was a tad quieter.

The leading bass melody is rather cool at first, but after a while (around 6 repeats) I found myself wanting to hear the wonderful choral sounds more clearly.

I'd personally much prefer it if that bass was reduced in volume quite a bit (and also maybe the grinding part of the beat slightly).

It loops really well and there's loads going on the background - it just frustrates me that I can't hear it properly.

Still definitely one of the better tracks on the NGAP. The sweeping notes and choral sounds are - at times - beautiful.

[SOOTH3]

Maybe this would make the best loop ever?

There's a layer that sorta sounds like a keyboard on violin setting, that's kinda staticcy... is that the instrument you used, or because of the compression?

I really liked the piano bits you played on the upper end and somewhere between 0:52 and 1:10, I started to fall in love. The melody around 1:47 is so beautiful and relaxing...

Sweeping notes around 3:20 were lovely.

At times, I did feel that it was milling around in familiar ground for too long and maybe if you could shorten it to under 2 minutes, you could make an amazing loop? Assuming the slight 'static' on the violinny sound is from compression, that'd allow you to make it a perfect piece, and hopefully you could fit in the best parts of the piece?

Apart from those 2 complaints, it's truly beautiful. At times, sublime.

Please e-mail a full piece.

aciddimensions [at] gmail.com

[Korean Mountain Dojo - Loop]

Sorry for this review.

I just love the sounds, specially the water. There's so many instruments and you have the confidence to keep them subtle, which is great.

After 20mins, I'm starting to get mildly tired of this, but could definitely keep listening. Not bad for a 52s loop!

The loop is slightly imperfect, maybe because you have a note just before the loop and we miss out on the echo.

I felt the instruments starting at 18s and 45s would have been better a tiny bit quieter.

The trangy instruments starting at 28s is sublime.

Overall, a great track and I'd love to use this.

[Bassynth]

Shame it doesn't loop well...

I really love the bassline and the sweeping notes you start off with, as well as the t.t.t.ttttt noises that start just before the electric-sounding melody (around the 24s mark).

However, I did find the melody that comes in just there is sorta 'too obvious'. I mean, with a loop I feel it should all be kinda constant, with loads going on, changing and fluxing, but the general 'sound' and volume should be fairly constant. Hope you understand what I mean.

The sustained, echoey notes you drop in near the end are cool.

If you sorta made the end/start connect perfectly instead of having a 2s pause and had it so that the instruments you use drew less attention to themselves, this could be a great piece for a chilled out puzzle game, or maybe a 1D platformer involving stickmen with dark bg and simple white lines.

It's got a lot going for it, but with those 2 faults, it falls short of something I'd wanna use for a game.

Nav responds:

Thanks! People seem to like this one, so I will try to make it better. My friend actually is working on a platformer, so maybe he will use it later!

[Pimp 2]

kick-arse

The whole thing is pretty kick-ass and surprisingly listenable for beat-box work!

Are there really no effects or filters or anything on this? The deep voice in the bg really sounds like it must've had some echo or something applied...

Loops reasonably well.

The robotic tone is cool and the beats themselves are kick-ass. Also, it gets pretty diverse , though I admit I don't like the sparse bits with the echoey voice nearly as much as when the beats themselves are in full flow.

[YC- Dark Piano]

Cool beats, but the piano's just too repetitive!

Didn't care much for this at all, sorry.

Having the same sequence of six single notes over and over is far too repetitive for a main melody. Specially6 when it's so loud and kinda overpowers the whole tune.

There seems to be a fair bit of changing up in the beats you have, but you really need to have as much diversity in the piano track. I reckon it'd be a stronger piece if you even just took that track out!

Cool beats, but the piano's just too repetitive!