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[80 (WiP)]

Back to the 80s!

Yeah, back to the 80s, that's where this song takes me. The synths in the background just sound so cheesy like they do in most songs from the 80s. ^^

But anyway, it sounds pretty good. Especially the little guitar riff has a nice melody.
The mastering still needs some more work, I think. The guitar riff just stands out too much. It almost seems as if the riff isn't a part of the song, because of the different sound quality. Hard to explain, but the guitar riff sounds as if it was recorded in a small room with a mic while the synths and the drums sound as if they where recorded in a studio (I hope you get what I'm trying to say here ^^).

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SFaPiL2 responds:

I was trying to make the e-guitar stand out less already (without pushing it in the background)!

My "mastering techniques" are trial-and-error-based, so they'll never be perfect. Applying the right reeverb to the e-guitars might solve the problem, but it might cause the echoes to "overlap", making it even more loud (damn it)... hmm... I'll try to solve this problem.

Anyway, thanks Haggard ^__^

[CKC - Avatar]

Slow intro

The intro is a bit long winded. Maybe you can cut out the first few seconds, because all we get to hear there is some silence.

After the intro the song picks up very nicely. I like the tempo of the song. It is fast paced, yet at the same time the melodies create the feeling of a slow song. Very interesting effect. ^^

Towards the end the song gets a bit repetitive, but I think you can easily fix that by chaning around the main beat and the main melody a bit.

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CKC2009 responds:

ok.

[Celestial Palace]

Could be a bit faster

The whole time the song was playing I thought: "It could be a bit faster". So yeah, in my opinion the song should pick up a bit after the intro, in my opinion it would sound better.

But the song has a nice and indeed very spacey atmosphere, which fits nice to your description of the "Space King and his Space Dog", heh.

Also, towards the end the main melody gets a bit repetitive, so I think you should try to add some variations of it into the song.

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Birdinator99 responds:

I hear you on the variation -- my next song should be better with that.

Thanks for your review, and I'm glad you liked the Space Dog lol.

[Life is the Drug - BK]

Nice title

"Life is the drug". Yeah, I think I can agree with this. Why swallow pills or smoke stuff when there's so much to experience in the "real world"?

Anyway, the song starts off a bit slow, but it progresses a lot the longer it plays. I like that a lot. This prevents the song from getting repetitive, as there's always something new coming in.
I also like the deep bass here. The kick could be a bit stronger in my opinion, but you wrote in the comments that you put a lot of effort into the mastering of this song. So I guess a stronger kick would overpower other melodies in the song.

Speaking of the melodies: I like how soft and subtle they are. They create a very nice counter part to the strong and deep bass.

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Bracksta responds:

wow you picked up on all of the little things i did to the song on purpose lol, you are very perceptive :D. I didn't want any harsh sounds until the video game clip and the bass had to be off the hook, breakbeat has to have two things, sick beats and bass. i am working on making my beat samples much stronger, the next song i produce should be an example of this :). thank you so much haggard for the great review and your awesome ear :). peace

[(FMC) -=Bowser Armageddon=-]

Good song for a boss battle

Well, I don't know the original version (never had a N64...), but this song does sound great anyway.

I like the intro. It creates a very good and dark atmosphere. Just the right mood for a battle against Bowser.
The main part of the song has a good tempo, that gets the adrenalin of the player pumping, which again is a very nice thing for a boss battle. The player has to be really involved in the battle. And I think he is if he's listening to this song during the battle.

The outro is a bit of a let down, though. I don't like how it slows down. Also, we are left with some seconds of silence. It would be nice if this song would loop a bit better.

But overall this is a great song.

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FunkmasterCatking responds:

AWESOMENESS.

I agree, it's kind of hard to make sense of the outro the way I did it. I might go back and redo it completely at some point..

Thanks for the review!

[Minimalism (Day of Trance #3)]

Nice bass

I really like the bass. Even though the bass line gets repetitve towards the end of the song due to it's minimalisticness (wow, is that a word? ^^) it still is very powerful and I really would like to hear that a lot louder than I am able to hear it. XD

I can really imagine people dacing to this song in a disco.

The progression of the song is nice as well. It starts off with very little but more and more gets added to it the longer it plays. This makes the song very interesting for the listener, as s/he is "forced" to keep listening. Nice job!

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jxl180 responds:

Thank you for the review!

[[Assios] - The Office Remix]

Nice song

Well, I don't know the original so I can't tell how good or bad your cover is. But I can tell that it sounds pretty good. It is very diversified which makes it very interesting to listen to. Most techno songs seem to be very predictable, but yours isn't. So you get some points for originality. ^^

The intro is very nice with the piano. The drums at 0:24 are a bit generic, but luckily that's the only thing that's generic about your song. Good work!

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Assios responds:

Thank you! Glad you liked it:) And yeah, the drums are a bit generic ;p

[Hell's Remedy Demo (2009)]

Good demo

This is a good demo. Makes me want to listen to the full song. However, I don't know if this is a general problem or it's just because it's a demo, but the beginning sounds too loud. It seems to me as if the instruments are just on the edge of creating static sounds.

But other than that, I think the song is good. :)

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Echo responds:

Tks for the review, in terms of loudness, this demo hadnt been EQed yet but thats now done so problem should be fixed ;)

Tks

Darklight17

[USB]

Needs vocals

A very nice track, I especially like the somewhat unique drums here (especially the intro riff is very nice). It's also nice that you gave the bass a bit more exposure. That instrument is sometimes very hard to make out and people miss out on some great bass riffs. So it's a good thing when the bass gets it's own little soli from time to time.

I also like the guitar, it sometimes plays a very upbeat, almost ska-like riff which creates a pretty happy atmosphere.

The only thing the song is missing now are some vocals. I think vocals would be a good addition to this song.

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Sawdust responds:

I intend to record women queefing musically for the vocals.

[Strangled-you start somet]

Good song

This is a nice song to finish off the album. Some melodies in here I think I have heard before in other tracks.

At first I wasn't too happy about the dissonant tunes that you have in the song here and there. But then I read the description of the song and now I think the dissonant parts are a good way to "audiolize" (is that a word? ^^) the struggle the protagonist has. He can't make up his mind and as a result the piano doesn't really know what to play... so the result are a few dissonant tunes.

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Calamaistr responds:

Unconventional keys are there not as a dissonant but the music is just in the same style on this psychological fairytale. Ive used such keys from the first track and on. :)

Thanks for the review.