MaartenC's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[FS: Hard sun (acoustic)]

Damn, that song is hard to sing. You did quite all right though. Not to sound queer, but your voice is really calming and nice to listen to.

Anyway, in the beginning a couple of tones seemed off, but after the first 'BIIIIIG, BIG HARD SUN' you recovered, and good too.

From he second B,BHS on, all the tones were practically perfect and I started to enjoy the song. Made think about how the original was, and I must say that I enjoyed this cover more than the original, what is very rare for covers/remixes.

The guitar play was also very good. Good ol' acoustic guitar play, which was just perfect.

Overall, I believe you're improving very much and please keep sending me PMs with the next song/cover, although I'll be raising my standards for the next song.

Oh yeah, the chorus... Big, hard sun? Wrooonnnnng. It's probably my perverted mind, but...

FairSquare responds:

Haha, the first couple of times i couldn't sing 'Big hard sun' without a giggle or two :3
And about a couple of notes being off in the beginning.. it seems that, when i try to sing a song, i just can't start as good as i want to. I have to sing a verse or two before i get really into it and basically stop thinking about how it sounds, starting to enjoy the actual singing more and stop worrying about how my voice sounds.
That you like my cover better than the original (which i love) is a pretty big compliment :)

Thanks for the review! :D I hope to keep improving :)
And of course, i will send you a PM when i upload my next audio creation ^__^

[Florescence (Syphonmax Remix)]

You're fucking good, you know that?

It's (just) 8:20 am here in the weekend and I forced myself to wake up just now and with a 'fluffy' head, I checked my PMs, clicked your link and got here. This song calmed my down and yet at the same time gave me a lot of energy. Damn you're good.

The beginning and at the end are for DJing purpose and I don't think those will ever be removed, so I won't be whining about that anymore, so here's the review:

I'll suppose that the song starts at 1:35, with a nice transition and then switches to just a very calming melody. Even though it was a very simple instrument used, without echos or whatever, it never bored me or such, well done with that.

At 3:17 a new part of the song started -and so the build up, IMO- and the trance-ish music rolled in, which was done also very smoothly. The song gradually became more energetic and became much more pleasant to listen to,

though at 5:15 a higher instrument was added, which made the song sound a little chaotic, but luckily after a second or 15 that wasn't noticeable anymore.

Anyway, I enjoyed this song very much, because THIS is how trance is supposed to be, in it's pure form, that is. I congratulate you with yet another awesome upload and now excuse me, I'm going to soundcloud.com for a high-quality download.

10/10 (rounded up) is well deserved, keep it up!

[Death of a pixel]

Hm... Strangely that reminded me of...

...lavender town. Damn you're good.

The instruments were indeed pretty disturbing, in a good way and held my attention throughout the whole song. Anyway the review:

The intro started out well, with just the one instrument and shortly after the others started to kick in and the song still managed to stay calm, yet impressive.

At the end, when all of the instruments/melodies were playing at the same time, it seemed wrong and right at the same time and I loved it. Too bad it ended WAAAY too abruptly. Really -2 for that, because otherwise it was perfect. I really hope this will be remade/revised by you, because this has great potential.

Keep it up and sorry for the late review.

8/10, 4/5, faved.

ErlendHL responds:

Hey thank you very much :)

[FS: Look I'm Running]

Now that's a swining song you put up there...

Let me say first, sorry for the (kinda) late review, new year's business etc. Speaking of new year, I listened to the English new year's celebration show and there was some real quality work there. To be honest, this could belong there.

I have forgotten the name of that program (I'm quite ashamed of that), but I've heard that getting a feature on that show is more of an honor than to score a #1 hit in the USA, you see what I'm getting at?

This is one of those songs that is calming, yet energetic. I think you should have hired a female singer to sing in this kind of song, if that would be possible :P

The song started good, apart from the fade-in effect, what wasn't that much of a letdown, but just starting off as a regular jazz-like song would have been better, I believe.

After that, all the instruments, which were playing different melodies (piano and others) were all blending in perfectly and kept the listeners attention; the song wasn't boring for one moment.

Later on, when the wind instruments started, this song really got deep, I loved that, but to be honest, the song could have lasted a LOT longer.
You have done something great here and if you decide to make this, or another upload much longer, I'll be sure to add it to my list of best songs (currently 209 songs with over 38 hours of length) and I'm serious here. Almost no NG audio portal upload ever made it there. Not even all of my favorites on my userpage have.

Anyway, I believe the song ended too abrubtly and because it's not a perfect song, I'll give this a 9/10 and so a 5/5, but this has limitless potential. Keep it up and SEND ME YOUR NEXT SONG!

FairSquare responds:

Haha, i think it would be possible to 'hire' a female singer if i really wanted to :p
And yeah, maybe i could've made it longer, but i just ran out of patience with this song for some reason. Don't know why exactly.
Thanks for this review and all the compliments and stuff :D
Oh, and don't worry, i'll send you my next song ;)

[FS: This Time (acoustic)]

Well done...

Good intro, good singing, lame text (sorry :P) and a good ending.

The intro was was really good, but after I heard the intro, I heard the whole song. That's pretty much a shame with acoustic music.

Assuming it's you singing here (you are, I know) you sing like a pro. You should do something with that. I mean it. Not many people can sing well these days.
With songs I think you should broaden your horizon with music. You can find lots of non-pop songs that are great too.
This is coming from a pop (and rap and hip-hop)-hater, though.

Anyway, I don't think at all that you fucked up at the end, it was well done, don't be harsh on yourself.

I'll just give this a 8/10 and so a 4/5 and hope you'll let me review your next audio too!

FairSquare responds:

Not all acoustic music is repetitive like this :p
And thanks for the compliments on my singing, although i don't agree with you on the greatness of it.
Oh and on 02:12 i play a wrong chord, that's what i meant with fucking up :p
Anyway, thanks for the review! :)