Fantastic improv and composition! Some real work went into this beast!
Reviews for "Chompy"
Step responds:
Yep, we all worked very hard on it! Personally, this amounted to around 23 hours of work. I'm really glad the effort shows.
Thanks for the review ^_^.
Haha I wanted to point it out... but then I figured you being the person you are would address it soon enough. And I guess I was entirely right! :D
That said, being a big fan of the DKC games (I still have the cartridges!) I highly admire your personalized Jungle Jam! It's very well done and honestly I think you did an amazing job!
Keep it up! :D
~Phyrnna ^_^
Step responds:
Hey Phyrnna! Reeaally appreciate you dropping by. I love your reviews!
Yeah, I didn't think it'd be too much of an issue for the game to use a DK arrangement if it wasn't making any money (or a negligible sum), but Chompy got sponsored so both the creator and I agreed that custom music is the safest and best way to go. We kept Jungle Swing as a placeholder while I worked on this track as quickly as I could haha.
And damn, "personalised Jungle Jam" is the best description ever! I was definitely very inspired by DK music while making this, partially because the plan was to purposefully make a track similar to Jungle Swing, and partially because DK music is awesome.
Glad you liked it. Thanks again!
Does this have a ... blues? influence? (The bass in particular) It seems to flow a lot better than most jazz (I just don't like the transitions in normal jazz).
Regardless. I love this piece.
Also like the latino influence (1:24) (Like the music from Tropico), and the big-brass sound (0:43), is that broadway style?
Step responds:
Hmm, the bass is indeed pretty bluesy, and the brass is pretty reminiscent of big band Broadway music, true! Truth be told, I was probably most inspired by the Donkey Kong soundtrack, in particular this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huy4912tIkk
You should definitely give jazz another chance. I'm not a fan of the really avant-garde, weird stuff in which I have no idea what's going on, but I listen to a fair bit of modern jazz like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pYHLfKqHL4
which is really amazing, and flows wonderfully in my ears.
Either way, thanks a lot for the review. I'm grateful!
Ahh, I missed this one? No way! I love that jungle-y groove at the beginning, and the climax into :43 is awesome. It's a very fun and jazzy piece. I liked how you faded out the screeching monkey FX at 1:06, even if it sounded a bit unnatural. It definitely seems appropriate for a videogame as well - it's fast-paced and fun, yet the theme is very succinct. Once again, I didn't even notice that it looped the first time it did! :O I swear I can just perfectly picture a bunch of jungle animals doing jazz hands all the way to the river to get a drink of water. XD All the solos in the middle of the piece are awesome as well. All of these talented musicians did an excellent job, and you mastered it into a final product really well, Step. Your music is simultaneously feel-good, relatable and epic! Well, I'm off to go make other people feel good about their music for a while...but you keep producing! I'll be back, haha! ;D
Step responds:
Oh sure write me another review because YOU WEREN'T AWESOME ENOUGH ALREADY.
Really glad you liked this one. The fading monkey FX would've been without the delay, but I thought it was a bit abrupt, and adding a bunch of reverb gave a lot of unfitting space/largeness to the track, so I opted for a minor delay effect.
Yup, I'm very grateful to the musicians who played in this track. Some of them have played in multiple pieces of mine and while I haven't met any of them (everything is done through camoshark) I hope they know that some random guy in Malta is super thankful. c:
Thanks for ANOTHER review, seriously.
Nice little song, I played Chompy just to hear it :3
Step responds:
Thanks for listening ^_^.