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[Circle of Flight]

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"Circle of floating" would be a better title, I guess. The track seems to be a bit too slow to resemble "flight".

Anyway, the track is very nice. I like how the instruments work together. The piano creates a very light atmosphere while the synth sounds create the image of floating before the inner eye.

Completed is the track by the drums. They fit perfectly together with the piano and the synth.

Only downside is that there seems to be no real climax in this song. But on the other hand, this is labled as "ambient" and maybe it just doesn't need a climax at all...

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WritersBlock responds:

Thanks man. Yeah, as I mentioned in another response, the tempo is slower to represent the openness and the seemingly slow feeling of flight, as my interpretation, of course. Thanks for the compliments, I'm really glad you like it.

[Heartache]

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Indeed, very chilled out. But it was also quite repititve. Even "chilled out" songs need some sort of variations or it can get annoying pretty fast.

You should add some more instruments and more parts to the song, while keeping the length of the track at the same level.

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[-rT- Paradox]

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I like the melodies you used in this song. They make the song pretty original (while the main beat sounds too generic for me).
Too bad that the song/loop is so short, though. I'd like to see this a bit expanded as it is quite repititve right now.

The loop works well. It's not perfect, but it still works.

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[RES - I Don't Care]

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The beat in the intro is a bit too generic for my taste. Luckily you build the song up pretty quickly, so we get something else to listen to.

The melodies you use in the song sound pretty nice, but sometimes we can hear what appears to be some static sounds (from 00:35 to 00:50 for example).

I like that you have so many breaks from the main beat. This makes the song very diversified and the main beat gets boring pretty fast. You should try to change it during the song to a more complex beat.

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Swerve responds:

See comment below about beat. I KNOW hahaha.
Thanks for pointing out the mixing errors, I'm working on my mixing:)
And I am glad you like the breaks, I threw them in because I like parts where the beat isn't playing.. I don't know, they sound more melodic at times, in my opinion.

Thanks for the review!

-RES

[==(Cloudclimber)==]

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I think the fade in is a tad bit too long. The song is very quiet for about 20 seconds. I had to turn my speakers up pretty much to be able to listen to the things going on in the intro.

Anyway, the rest of the song makes up for this little inconvenience. Again you manage to create a very dense atmosphere in your song.

I really don't know what else I could say about this... except for: Great! Keep it up! :)

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[-=SummerStorm=- ( demo)]

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This reminds me a lot of the "X-Files" theme, heh.

To me, it sounds more like a mysterious theme, not like a summer storm. It's too quiet overall to create the image of a storm in my mind. The beat should be a lot faster and the instrument that plays the main melody should change to something that doesn't sound so "mysterious". And it should propably play an other melody. ^^

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[+Metro Station+]

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It seems to be a nice track, but it's buried underneath the loudness of the sound. It nearly blasted my speakers away and everything sounds overpowerd because of the loudness.

The loop is done perfectly, which is always a good thing for video game tracks. ^^

You should try to sort out the sound problems (lower the volume a bit) and try to get a cleaner sound. Then you have a great track.

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WritersBlock responds:

Seriously, I didn't notice the overall volume was a problem. Maybe I've just got my speakers turned a little low... but other songs on the NGAP don't seem all that quiet by comparison...
I don't know. Thanks for the review. I'm glad you like the loopablilty of the track. There was a little echo at the end, so it could have easily have sounded cut off or lose the beat at the end, but a quick cut/paste job in audacity did the trick. ;D

[{agnryfaic} Hardstyle]

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The first minute of the song is used for what seems to be a build up for the rest of the song. Very little variations in this part of the track and it just feels sorta empty, because you used only two or three different beats here.

After the break the song continues with a melody that has nothing to do with the build up of the first part. Only later on you reintroduce the hard beat from the intro.

So, just like you said in the comments, this song feels unfinished. But the basics are all right, so try to build up on them! ;)

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agnryfaic responds:

Yeah, it is kinda incomplete. I'm making the intro ''synch'' a bit more with the actual track, so don't worry about that ;). I'm having a few problems mastering though, but I'll ask some ''FL pro'' friends of mine :')

Oh well, thanks for the review ;)

[[LY] `Asylum, --]

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It's very... unusual. The structure is a bit messed up it seems, but it doesn't sound bad. Just "unusual".

The looping is done very good and I can imagine hearing this track in fighting games.
But you need to change the drums. They distract from the other instruments and they just sound that good. I think with some more straight forward drum sound this track would be better.

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[p4c-Midnight]

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A good song. I like how you put that guitar in there. I think I've never heard something like that before in a Trance song.

I also like the mixing of the song. Even though the main beat is pretty strong and loud it doesn't overpower the other melodies and everything can be heard just fine.

Only downside is that the main beat gets a little repetitive after a while. A few variations here and there sure would be a nice addition.

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p4c responds:

yeah, maybe i can add some subtle details, but im probably not going to make it change too drastically too often--then it gets chaotic. theres a tipsy balance there... so ill see.

thanks for your thoughts and im glad you liked it!