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[Power of the Piano]

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This song has a very nice beat and even though I'm not a hughe fan of reversed cymbals, the drums sound good as well. Okay, the sound quality of the drums isn't that good (it's pretty noticeable that you used a preset), but what the drums are playing sounds good.

I think all the editing you did payed off in the end. While I haven't heard an earlier version of this I think that now the mastering is complete. Everything can be heard just fine and the piano has a very good volume.

Also even though the song is only 2:50 long you added a lot of different parts to this, so the song never gets boring. Good work!

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Step responds:

Not a huge fan of reversed cymbals? That's a first :P. Well, the drums were just random sounds I got from the Internet. I'm glad the editing payed off, it's something I worked pretty hard on (I didn't ACTUALLY master this. I just twisted a few volume knobs here and there, and ended up with a rather good mix. Anyway, glad you enjoyed my song. It is a little on the short side, but that's the thing about me. When I make a really good song, I can't stand continuing it, and want to submit it ASAP :P. oh well, thanks a lot for the review, and keeping my 10/10 perfect score so far XD.

[ISTW: Industrial Love]

Good beat, but very repititve

The ryhthm of this song is very nice, but there isn't too much else happening in this song. A main melody or some more parts that break up the structure of the song would be nice. It also would make the song less repititve.

Also, the song doesn't loop that well. It's quite noticeable when the loop starts over.

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I-Saved-The-World responds:

Thank you for the review, i admit, it is a little repetitive. But it is a minutue long loop. And It loops well if you download and listen to the file.

Your feedback is appreciated, and ill keep in mind what you've said. :)

[SN/ Spirits of the Fifth Floor]

Very interesting mix of genres

Wait, do the people go to the fifth floor and then jump out of the window to kill themselves or do they go there after they tried to commit suicide?-.-

Anyway, the song is really nice. The mix between ambient and DnB is something I never heard before, but it seems to work perfect. At least it works the way you did it.

At first the song was a bit too slow for me. The DnB only seems to be more present at the later parts of the song, but after I listened to it a few times the atmosphere you create with the ambient sounds in the earliert parts grew on me. At first I thought the atmosphere was a bit boring, but after a few listens I now think it's a very good atmosphere. Somewhere between spooky, creepy and mysterious.

I now also appreciate the slow build up, I realized that the song - or rather the atmosphere of it - would be destroyed if you start with heavy DnB right away. Now you keep the listener interested and the slow build up makes the song a lot less repititve. :)

So I would advise THE LISTENER to listen to this track more than once. It's totally worth it! ;)

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SessileNomad responds:

"Wait, do the people go to the fifth floor and then jump out of the window to kill themselves or do they go there after they tried to commit suicide?-.-"

i shouldnt lawl, but i fuckin did, when people try and kill themselves but fail, they are sent to the fifth floor

the song is about death, so i agree that it wouldnt sound bad for it to ust jump in with a heavy ass drum beat, i kinda saved those for the climax of the song :)

im really happy with the atmosphere i created, i spent quite a bit of time on it

glad you liked it dude, thanks for a great review

peace out

SessileNomad

[The Fat Joker]

Good voice

Very nice demo reel. The text is pretty funny but you present it in a very "evil" way, which builds a nice contrast. At first I didn't know if I should laugh or not, but at the end ("Let me put a cake to the face of yours") I just had to chuckle. ^^

Too bad you don't show off some other voices you are capable of doing here. But since this was meant for a collab maybe it was just too much of a hassle to add some more voices to it.

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ForNoReason responds:

Thank you for the review.

[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.

[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.

[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!