Kwing's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[V00 - Eternity Ending v2]

Enjoyable... I like the sound of this but there are so many things wrong with it. Very repetitive, shitty drum machine (a clap sound effect?) and overall not a whole lot of content. I'm really not a fan of how this sounds more like a mix than an actual song. Just a bunch of loops squished together? Come on, there's gotta be a better alternative.

Vortex00 responds:

lol'ed on shitty drum machine. I guess it sounded ok to me because I was the on that made it. Kind of a like a mother liking her ugly ass baby. It wasn't meant to be a full song, just background music for a menu screen on a old game I was working on. Yeah a bunch of loops, I made a few things in FL studio with the individual notes and vst stuff, one on which I uploaded here, but overall I but didn't have the will to continue it since it is more of a time consuming process to do that. I wanted to focus my time on making the game itself, yet still have my own music so I would not have to worry about royalties or anyone's copyright.

[Teqneek vs Byron]

I was looking for something like this! Great lines and you picked a really fitting beat.

Teqneek responds:

Thanks Kwing; I appreciate the comments btw; Maybe not at first lol, but after reading all the reviews I've definitely gained a respect of your opinion. So yeah, thanks! Haha on this old ass track

[Twenty Fourteen]

This not only is longer than most of your works, but feels longer as well. The instrumentation is varied and dynamic, and the 'something missing' that I often find myself complaining about in your songs is filled in with multiple layers of music. I really like that you have moderately paced percussion to keep the beat moving along while your sustained notes really draw out the length.

Like most of your stuff, the timbre is hyper-resonant to the point of being a little grating, but that's your style so I won't knock you for it. I think a grainy version of this song would sound really awesome though, perhaps if it sounded like it was coming out of an old radio or from the next room over?

Really great work, it sounds like you put a lot of work into this!

ShinsukeIto responds:

Thanks so much for the review! And yes, I have been trying to find that missing piece, that 'professional quality' - if you will - that many polished musicians seem to have.
As for the feedback, I'll be sure to experiment with different effects in the future, especially the 'old radio' one... that sounds interesting to recreate.

Thanks as always Kwing, and HNY!

[CLAB - Eye-Cue vs Teqneek]

Both rappers have great flow, but I didn't feel like either had very personal punches or hard hitting comebacks. Even so, Eye-Cue had some really clever lines (Def Leppard's drummer) and the Godzilla/mozzarella rhyme was pretty crafty. Nice doubletime too.

Teqneek wasn't bad but some of his lines didn't seem very well thought out. Like every else that battles him he makes one too many lines about Eye-Cue's name.
"Where you find that dying is quite brutal and I rule."
Seriously? Three syllables short and you fill it with that?
The epitome/epiphany line had potential but "I don't think Eye-Cue ever made it through highschool" really isn't a strong follow-up, and it's not much of an epiphany either.

Eye-Cue wasn't without his faults, either. Seemed like he just wanted to be offensive all the time without saying much that was actually relevant to Teqneek.

Overall my vote goes to Eye-Cue for (slightly) more wit and more captivating flow.

Teqneek responds:

Hey at least I pronounced epiphany correctly.

[Mischief]

Sounds like a cross between some Spyro theme and the Mt. Zozo theme from Final Fantasy 6. Kind of loud and obnoxious but I like it anyway. Kind of short and seems like it's unfinished.

Lashmush responds:

Yeah, theres definitely some Uematsu in there. It was just a creative brainfart I felt like entertaining briefly. c:

[,nice try]

Intense. I love how grainy this sounds, it's awesome. Very digital sound to it, and the drums have a good punch to them.

bryce responds:

This was actually the WIP, hear the full one here:

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/443059

[oooh aaah na na nah]

I hope this is used for one of the Clabtrap battles... The sporadic emphasis on the drums and instrumentation make this song very rough and unpredictable despite it having a great flow to it.

bryce responds:

glad you liked it despite the roughness, i just threw this together in about 2 hours (Y)

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Really chill, I really like how much energy there is in this for how gentle it is. A lot easier on the ears than a lot of your other stuff.

bryce responds:

whoops, damn, i usually try to make my music hard on the ears. glad you liked it anyway. won't happen again! :o)

[your move]

This seems kind of different from your usual stuff, which was why I felt compelled to write a review for it. I can see why you listed it as hip hop, although personally it sounds almost like ambiance to me, what with how the music just sounds like sheets of sound coming at you. I could totally see this in a Silent Hill game, it totally makes me think of an abandoned, foggy town. I wish it looped.

bryce responds:

well it's more downtempo but newgrounds has a very limited number of genres so hip hop is the closest

[-Orr- 2013 DEMO REEL]

I always hate reviewing demo reels and collabs just because it's kind of hard to touch on specific elements of tracks - especially when you don't get to hear the entirety of any of them. Still, you've got some great stuff here!

DavidOrr responds:

That's totally understandable -- and thanks for taking the time to leave a comment! Demo reels are a necessary evil in this biz, as often times a prospective client will only give you a few seconds to deem whether or not they like your music. For the general listener though, they can be a little ... disorienting.