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[Number of the Beast]

I lived alone...

my mind was blank
I needed time to think to get the memories from my mind

This is a very good "cover" of the intro of "The Number of the Beast". In the beginning you sound very close to the original. Later on, you still sound close to the original, but you should have put a bit more "drama" into your voice. Also I think the "sixhundredandsixtysix" should be spoken a tad bit faster.

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Coop responds:

Well, it's not bad for a first try. I could also use an echo on it, but still, for a raw sample, I think I'm getting there :)

[Kids]

Sounds a bit muffled

Again a nice build up here. Maybe it's a tad bit too repititve, but this can be easily sorted out if you add some other instruments during the build up or if you simply cut down on build up time.

However, the rest of the song is pretty repititve, too. There are very few breaks and/or changes in the song, so you should try to work on that.

The major problem with the song seems to be the somewhat muffled sound. As if someone put a cloak in front of the speakers...

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thegreatmorph responds:

Well that said, I'm pretty indulgent in my work and if it sounds good to me I try not to mess around with it too much.

Also the muffled sound is probably down to the poor quality of the uploaded Mp3 once again.

Thanks for the review! I'll try to encompass your advice into my newer works, if I ever get around to finishing them.

[SRD - The Almighty Sterling]

Great, but...

This is a good song. I like the slow build up and the rhythm is also pretty good. But what ruins the song are the many static sounds in there. Too bad you don't know where they are coming from. Makes it harder to figure out what went wrong and where.
Did you try to simply reupload the song? Because it would be pretty sad to see this good song getting a low score just because of the statics...

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thegreatmorph responds:

Thanks for the advice, and I haven't tried uploading it again, mainly because it's on the hard drive of my other computer which unfortunately is screwed.

I'll try it as soon as I get my computer up and running again.

[Heal - Classical Remix]

Even better than the original

That's right. I like this better than the original (sorry, TMM43 ;) ). I think it's quite amazing what you made out of the song. I still can hear the melody from the original here, but in your song it sounds so different, with all those classical instruments backing up the melody.

It also creates a totaly different atmosphere. The original song creates a happy atmosphere, while this one creates a much more thoughtful, almost sad atmosphere...

Good job!

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TheBellmaker responds:

I think TMM43's version is awesome, too :). Thanks for the review and I hope to do much better things with my music in the future.

[A dance song for Xmas]

And yet again, this does loop very well

The main problem with this is however, that there isn't much change during the 19 seconds this loop is long. The beat stays the same all the time and there are only few other things to hear, but those are nearly overpowerd by the main beat.

Some changes in the pitch sure would be nice here.

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[8-bit war]

Again a good loop

And this time with added drums, which makes the whole song more interesting in my opinion. Too bad that the drums and the melody run out of sync at the end of the song, but you already know about this.

The melody provided here is pretty nice and the sound remembers me of some old atari games... ah, sweet memories! :)

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[bit&piano]

Loops pretty good

But sounds a bit boring as it is now.
While the tune is very much 8-bit like and I can imagine this being used in some sort of cave or dungeon level, there isn't that much else to it.

I expected the drums to last until the end after the part at 0:06. It would also make the song more insteresting as the listener has something more to listen to.

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[(FMC) -=Beaming=- (MAC8)]

Nice melodies

Some parts have a great background beat and very nice melodies. Other parts have a nice beat, but the melodies are missing.

While I appreciate the constant change of the parts with melody/no melody (keeps the song from getting repititve) the parts without (or with only some) melodies sound pretty boring, as we are left with nothing but some beats.

Also, some of the beats seem to be either "too hard" or they just sound that strange. What I mean is that sometimes the beat seems to "fade out" a bit (at 4:42 for example), which sounds pretty strange in my ears.

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[Skela-New_years_euphoria]

Unusual intro

I think the intro is quite unusual, but on the other hand, I'm not that experienced with house music... anyway, I like the changeover from the intro to the main beat. The intro indicated that a whole other song would follow (something like a mariachi song ^^), but instead a nice beat sets in that creates a quite happy and delightful atmosphere.

Good work!

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Skela responds:

Thanks for the review.

[MH16: Epic Experiment]

Nice strings

I like the arragenemt of the strings in this song, however, it seems as if the track is unfinished as there isn't that much happening here.

While the strings are pretty relaxing to listen to, I just wished the whole time that there would happen something else, like a piano that plays a melodie, or just other instruments that play along.

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FairSquare responds:

Yeah, this is unfinished. I'll probably never finish it, but if i'm going to finish it: you gave some good advice :-)
Thanks!