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[AF - Inner Space]

Nice, but too calm for me

The atmosphere is pretty nice in this song, it feels kind of spacey and mysterious.
But it also feels as if the song isn't going anywhere. I mean, the kick is very good and the melodies are pretty catchy and the atmosphere is good as well. But the song won't really spark me, somehow. Maybe I'm just too tired right now, but a better climax would really help this song, I think.

Right now you have a pretty long part during the middle of the song where it is very calm and not much can be heard there. There's nothing wrong with that, but it comes a bit unexpected as the song was already calm before the "calm part". I think it would sound better and build a nicer contrast if the song would build up to a climax and then after the climax the "calm part" would set in.

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aliaspharow responds:

Thanks for the review, but the spacey/calm thing is really just the style that i sometimes like to put into my music. of course it doesn't really please everyone and i respect that, but its really meant to be in that style. the long part in the middle is that long because the song was actually meant to be 5:30 minutes long, but i cut it short due mostly to repetitiveness. And ive realised there isnt really any good climax in it, escpecialy durring the second half, but i just couldn't really seem to make it good without making it to complex or changing the song completely. But i am still working on it.

[:)-smile-Mik W]

Not one of your best songs

The sound you used in the beginning reminds me of some old cracktros (those are the intros of the crack group that cracked the game, back in the days). But sadly it sounds very annoying the way you used it here.
While you created some sort of melody with it, it still sounds very annoying, because it sort of rings the whole time, which doesn't sound that good at all.

Also the rest of the sounds "ring" in a similar way, which makes it very hard to listen to this song. It's just too hard to focus on the melodies you where trying to create if the sound keeps "flickering" back and forth.

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[The Deep Blue]

Good, but a bit too slow

A very nice song, would fit pretty good in an RPG, I think.
It starts off very nice with the watery sound at the beginning and it continues in a nice and relaxing way.

I like how the song picks up the speed a bit at around 1:29 and I think it would sound better if you kept this speed until the end of the song, because it sounds much nicer than the slower beginning in my opinion.

So I think you should cut down the length of the slower part a bit and therefore let the faster part play for longer.

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PuffballsUnited responds:

Hmm... I guess I could see that, but for some reason I personally liked the slow part better than the faster part.

[-)S(- Live Out Loud!]

Great

This sounds really great. It got me caught from the first few seconds on. I really like the beat in the intro and nearly as important: I totally like the SOUND of the beat. It really sounds as if someone has been playing this on a real drumset and you recorded it live.

Also, the melodies you come up with fit very well to the nice beat as they sound as powerful as the drums in the background.

I also like that you came up with different parts for this song. It prevents the song from getting repititve too fast, plus it gives the listened time to relax a bit before the powerful beat starts again.

Nice work!

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Will responds:

Thank you very much, glad you like it!

[Messy robot Repair]

Good

Overall the song is pretty nice. There are loops and synths everywhere, but the "final product" turns out to be quite good.

The intro is a bit slow, and especially the part at 0:56 doesn't sound that good. The drums sound much too weak here, so you should try to get a more bassy sound for them.

But later, at around 1:37 the song gets really good. Here everything fits together quite well. Too bad the song ends so quickly after that. ^^

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Sawdust responds:

Thanks, well appreciated.

[Lost Entity (Dance Remix)]

Good

A good song. It starts off slow in the intro but quickly builds up to a good dance song. I like the melodies you used here, they are simple but very catchy.

Also, the beat is good as well. Very driving, but not too "hard" either, so that people can just enjoy the song on the dancefloor without having to exhaust themselves too much. ^^

I like how you did the outro. It loops very good with the intro so that it's hardly noticable where the song ends and where it starts over.

Too bad it's so short, though. A few more parts sure would have been nice. It would make the song longer and less repetitive (because it gets repetitive after the 4th or 5th playthrough. ^^)

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DJ-Chilvan responds:

Thnx! Ya, I was kinda disappointed it was a little short too. I am really considering an extended version, and it's like i will now make one due to the fact that I now have the full versions of the VSTs. I will make it not much longer, to avoid repetitiveness. I might add a couple more verses of different melodies.

Thnx again!

[4:20am]

Sounds like a parody

And I really hope this is one. :P

You covered nearly everything I don't like about modern hip hop. Swear words all over the place, an unoriginal song name referencing the drug sub culture.
This can go awfully wrong, but you managed to let this sound pretty funny with your little speech in the intro.

The verse is interesting as well with the way you set up your voice with that effect. Also the way you rap fits very well to the background beat, which is always a big plus in hip hop songs, I guess. ^^

So, as a parody, this is a pretty good song.

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[[DX] Haunted Hip-Hop]

Interesting concept

Never really heard songs like this before. Well, there's the Insane Clown Posse with a few "scary songs", but they all sound different from this.

I like the main melody and the instrument you used for it. It sounds creepy and is very powerful. However, the song lacks some variation (as some of the reviewers already said before me). Even though the song is only 1:31 long we can hear the same elements being repeated quite often.

Some more melodies or drum beats would certainly help to make the song less repititve and it would also break up the song structure a bit, which would also be a nice thing. Because right now the song structure is too plain for my liking.

So, the basics for a good song are there. You have an interesting concept and a nice and powerful main melody. Now you just have to work on the rest. Though this "rest" can turn out to be the hardest work of the whole song. ^^

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dx5231 responds:

my songs sound kinda repetitive, I guess I should start practicing.
Thanks for the review.

[LB - Your Beauty Defined]

Very nice

I like this song, it's very nice and has a good atmosphere. Also I think the intro is good as it is now. I like the slow fade in of the piano. Then when it is fully faded in, some other instruments join the piano. As I've said, I like it and I don't think you should change it (sorry aliaspharow, but I have to disagree with you here :P ).

Anyway, I think the song's strongess is that it is quite slow. You give the song time to develop, the melodies have a much better impact on the listener that way, imo. If you speed this up chances are that it all may sound too hectic and thus you would ruin the song.

However, there are sometimes a few background sounds that don't fit too good into the song, for example at 2:26. It just sounds a bit off to me.

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Lublub194 responds:

2:26 you say? I don't hear anything off here? Maybe I'm missing something?

I'm very glad you enjoyed this! That makes me quite happy when others enjoy it too :)

I don't think I'll change the tempo at all, and if I do, It maybe a lil bit slower...

Thanks for the review :D