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[HouseTrance [Box-Killa]]

Nice transition

It starts off a bit generic, but the beat is very nice.
Good thing that the "genericness" is replaced by a very nice melody at around 0:15.

The transition in the middle of the song is very nice, it comes a bit unexpected but it really fits in there. I also like how you start the second part of the song out of a "rewind" sound. I think you did a good job there.

However, the second part of the song doesn't sound as good as the first part in my opinion. While the beat and the kick are still nice there are no melodies anymore. I'm not an expert when it comes to house music, but I think even in house you have melodies from time to time. ^^

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Box-Killa responds:

yeah the bass was the melody lol. Hey there was some slight melody in there with a fast sorta cutting synth, and a pad. dont know what you mean.

[Brittle Nature (WIP)]

Piano is lost

There's a lot of stuff going on at the same time during the song, it almost sounds a bit messy and overloaded. But only almost. I think you came as close to the "messy sound" line as you could, but you didn't cross it, which is a good thing.

The song is pretty dark and the atmosphere is almost sinister. I think this is because of the very deep bassy sound we can hear right from the beginning of the song.

However, the 8-bit piano seems to be a bit lost in there. It tries to compete with the deep sounding instruments, but it fails. The more happy sounding 8-bit can't stand up to the dark and sinister atmosphere, which is really a pitty, because it would be a very interesting contrast between those two feelings (happy and sinister).

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[Something's Missing]

Good

The piano loop is really nice and the background music sounds good as well.

The cymbal at 0:52 (and later at 1:38) sounds a bit strange. Not only the sound itself but also the little echo seems to be a bit out of place. But the addition of the drums are a good idea. It was a bit unexpected after the intro, but they fit very well into the song.

The vocals are a nice addition, if only there where more vocals than just this short part. And just like the cymbals, the little echo effect doesn't really fit there. It sounds more like the song suddendly jumps there.

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GronmonSE responds:

Yeah, the crash I chose is not very good and I misconfigured the delay on it.

Thanks for your review <3

[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!