Cool track. All is well, except for loud Hi-Hat.
Reviews for "T.E.O.M. - Grustler (Produced By TheEyeOFMusiK)"
Epic and Catchy at the same time! Nice!
wow! pretty good! all the samples and instruments work together pretty well! i would have liked to see a little more variation in chord progressions and drum patterns. also, i think that the clap could have had an additional layer of a snare underneath.
like a lot of others have said, this would work really well as background music with the chill vibe it gives off.
while nothing necessarily "stands out" about this track, it has a bunch of good aspects to it. i'm looking forward to hearing more!
Good work on volume level, for some reason when I make stuff the wavelength never gets that wide. Did you use FL Studio to make this? If you use FL, I would recommend adding an audio spectrum, and posting it on youtube to increase your fanbase.
Melody is flawless, reverb could be upped a bit. I am impressed that this has vocals, although few, since most of the tracks on newgrounds are purely instrumental. 5/5.
This ultimately really feels like a background track. While the percussion really stands out, everything else - while sounding nice enough - is extraordinarily repetitive. I do feel as though those first 9 seconds of empty beat are superfluous, and you should probably have started out with more going on. In any track, especially one that repeats the same motif over and over again as this one does, too much lead-in is generally a bad thing. That said, many artists are guilty of taking too long to "get to the point," so to speak, and end up with lengthy intro sequences that seem to go nowhere.
The ending of the track isn't really one at all. Is this supposed to loop? Is there supposed to be more, or is it just moving straight into the next track on the album? Either way, the lack of a proper ending left me feeling like things were unresolved, and that's not so good. Even if this track is just a link in a much larger chain, it deserves to have its own conclusion.
In the end, while I do like what I hear, especially on the drum beats side of things, there's a whole lot of missed opportunity to take this from generic to epic. There's just not a lot going on in the grand scheme of sound, and with little change from start to finish, especially melodically, it gets pretty old by the fourth minute.
Like I said, what's here is good, and those beats are legit, but I believe you have the potential to do much more with this. I've read your Author Comments, and you've mentioned that this is merely an "appetizer," but it leaves me wanting. Even as appetizers go.
I'll be checking out some more of your tracks, so hang tight. I feel like you've been PMing lots of folks to check out your music, which seems evident by the bloated number of reviews, but you've at least gone about it respectfully. Keep that attitude, even in the lean times, and I believe you could go far.