JustShawn's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Chain Lightning]

Sounds like something from a few retro style platformers...reaching as far back as the late 80s...but with a modern day touch.
Then of course, with the feels of some of your rifts, I'd go as far as to say I'm detecting some MMX style beats incorporated in there.
Everything's meshing well, and the atmosphere created by this piece would fit into a few collabs we have out there.

I'm curious to what you could do with some of those old school 80s video game beats...hell, even some of the marvelous late 80s and early 90s cartoons that entertained us as kids (insert troll face), and what about some of those loverly surfacing punk/metal/hair thrashing bands? Hmmmmm?

Making me wonder here Dan, and that's a good thing!

DanJohansen responds:

Hi man! I DIG 80's/90's cartoon intros a lot, like Silver Hawks intro, Swat Kats, TMNTurtles etc etc. Tons of great parts in those intros. Glad you enjoyed the track man! Appreciate the write up! \m/

[Dragonic Conjuring]

As Bad stated, you have your own unique style here and I am sure those...DragonForce followers would say you're trying to "mimic" their style to some bullshit extent...I say NOPE~

This for sure has it's own unique feel and the variables, that lead, the drums, and the sheer power of the tune...Uhhhh YUP!
SO!...when's the next collab comin' up? I know you gotta have at least SOMETHING in store for the DBZ parody collab comin' up.

If not...welllllll...get to it? ^_^

DanJohansen responds:

Awesome review to wake up to today, Shawn, I was def a bit inspired by early Malmsteen and Symphony X stuff for the starting riff, but confident I made it my own. Glad you dug the track! Haven't even heard of this whole DBZ parody thing haha. Rock on!

[Madness guitarification]

Madness worthy alright!
The intro had me...wondering, then the pickup just had me hooked.
Loved the fact you kept it overly chaotic and violent...brutal at that too.

DESHIEL responds:

Madness is never calm :D

[StarFox: Corneria Theme 8-Bit]

A good 8 bit take on the classic!
I love the flawless notes, and what really caught my eye is the fact the loop is almost perfect. Needs a bit of a touchup honestly...seeing that this was uploaded 7 years ago, I am pretty sure that you have since refined the piece. Question is, will you come back to the light of newgrounds and share the glory with us all?

As far as everyone wondering what studio was used to create this, it sounds like the samples are genuine, and the mastery was done in either Reason or FL studio...could be wrong, but at the time, these were the two top studio mixers...and the bitrate is kinda a dead giveaway.

[Tales of Nowhere - Thane]

GROOVY!!!!!
Has a good head bangin' feel to it and DOES stick my generation's melodic style! Well done on keepin' true to the 80s! I do have a small gripe though, and that would be some segments seem a bit out of place...pretty sure if you listen to it a bit more closely, you'll see what I am talking about.
Its nothing too major, just kinda turned me off for about 5 seconds, then it recovered NICELY!

If you were to ever do an underground or heavenly piece...make sure you stick true to 90s gaming for that one, namely the early and mid 90s...where the revolution of RPG's took place... >:=}

If you're a lil lost...google the RPG revolution.

Burn7 responds:

Heeeyyyy I'm glad you thought this was cool! I was going for a more "classic rock/jam" kinda vibe here. Eventually I made a sick synthbass '80's version that sounds all actionmovielike.

I'll definitely look into more RPG songs, I'm gonna need all the help I can get. Really the way I write all of my music is "Did Doom do it already? Then I'll just copy what Bobby Prince had,". Every single song I've ever written can be traced back directly to a doom level. It's much easier to hide the truth when I'm just doing a cover of a doom song, but every riff, every melody, every rhythm... All lifted from doom. Every single one, straight copypasted. The Pokemon/Zelda songs? Straight outta Doom. My entire Album? Basically just doom. Anything with my vocals? I just record the 1993 game then remix it to sound like a voice.

[Retro Synth Horror.]

Feels and sounds like a bit of Vegeta's theme thrown in there...or is that just me? Even a slice of Absolute Perfect Cell -_- guess it could just be me...

D-Docolocolous responds:

I don't know either of those, so I couldn't say :p

[The Escape-Metaljonus]

Sitting here, smoking a cup of coffee and drinking a cigarette...listening to this beast at 10am...while on the clock. Well, all I can say is YAYSAUCE! My work day wont be so damn boring now!

SO! BDI should get in on a revision of this madness...perhaps an early prep for madness day? I could see this actually being used in a madness clip...just a total shitfest of slaughter and chaos.

Metaljonus responds:

Haha, glad you dig it dude!

[Depths of Wickedness]

Wayy the fuck over my expectations bro! Absolutely brilliant! Pieced together nicely, and does justice to the original! Temco would be proud of you and the way you arranged one of theor greatest hits of all time! Its good to have you back as well! The ending was pieced together nicely with your usual flares you throw in which made this piece scream Burn7 in every shape and form!

Listening to this on my bluetooth headset, everything is balanced to the T, and in saying that, I welcome you back to the light of newgrounds!

As far as licensing and being in violation of the Community terms and rules, naw. You did everything right, and this tribute is just that, a tribute to one of the greatest NES games of all time! While on par with Megaman, LoZ, Mario, Metroid, and a few select other titles...you do Homage to those artists, and they would be absolutely PROUD of you and your work!

[REALITY GLITCH AUTOMATON]

Nothing short of glitchin' amazing!
This was the kinda stuff i expected to hear outta our 80s and 90s video games. To hear it NOW in this era, just makes you wanna go retro and beat all your favorite classocs for the hell of it!

#nostalgia #80s90sGamerBabies

johnfn responds:

thanks m8!!!

[For Samurais]

It has come out of hiding at long last!
You have a gap to fill!
BRING YOUR ASS BACK AND MAKE OUR EARS BLEED IN SHEER DELIGHT!

This track...just holy mother of all that is ungodly on newgrounds! Sounds like something one would hear in THUG THUG2 THAW and a few other "pro-skater" games for the instrumental sections!
Well Fucking DONE!

BERSERKYD responds:

WOW ! Thats such an epic review !!! That mean a lot man ! I'll try my best to share more stuff... Youre right ! Thanks a lot !