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Incredible stuff, man. I love the amorphous bass, the pad, that little kazoo-like lead. Those drums are tough! Ooh, I like this bit with the 16th note bellish sounds, what a cool sounding synth! Just fantastic stuff from you, as always. Oh man, I love the glitching, amazing!
-ac-
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This is the score for a love scene in a neo noir sci fi escape film. 'nuff said?
This piece has so much breadth to it, new effects popping in and out of both (or more? I only have 2 on this comp) channels, and the vox, which I believe says love. The doopy synth that pokes it's head in periodically throughout sounds like a future ATM's booping and beepings. I've always been a bit jealous of your ability to glitch things up to hell and beyond.
-ac-
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This song is a masterpiece!
I love the jazzy feel the rhodes and progressions lend the intimate and dry drums you have throughout. Very well placed and extremely well executed glitches and drum variations, smooooothly placed vox, simple and powerful square bass giving this such a amazingly cool vibe. I'm going to have to add you to my favorite artists, for sure.
-ac-
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This song goes on entirely too long, boring synths, and a crashing waves loop, and inferior, repetitive, homogenous drums. Kind of overindulgent, cheesy melody. Nothing really has any power in this song, I'm kind of waiting for the breakdown, or a second verse, or a chorus, or bridge, or... hell, anything. Also, it's not really very ambient, the drums and the melodies and key imply action. Not much really soothing about this piece.
Sorry if this all sounds harsh. It seems to me like you worked on this for about 2 hours and called it a day.
-ac-
Author's Response:
There can be more to ambient than calming sounds. The melodies and drums add some originality and makes it different from all the other ambient songvs out there.
You kind of contradict yourself when you say that the drums are repetitive and nothing has any power. Well, ambient isn't meant to have all that power, it's supposed to be soft and relaxing. Then you backtrack and say that it's not really ambient because the drums and melodies aren't simple enough. That's kind of the opposite to what you implied before. Sure, it may repeat a lot, but that's a part of ambient. If I cut it down too much, it'd have too much action in the riffs and it'd sound even less ambient. So it's stretched out to let it all sink in.
I get that you don't really like it, but I put a lot more work into it than you think. There was a decent amount of trial and error in order to get to the starting point. I needed to pick out instruments that aren't too overpowering, but can still handle the sound. I had to come up with a progression to which I could layer them all in together, I had to come up with over a dozen riffs that can all interweave with eachother. I needed to add sound effects into the background to make it more soothing. I needed to balance out the instruments so they weren't too loud but not too quiet. I needed to create a drum loop that was not too overpowering but pleasant in the background, ambient doesn't mix with percussion, so it wasn't easy to make the drums sound like they were meant to be there, to give it a bit of extra drive. 2hours? I worked on this for a whole day, probably 8-9 hours straight.
I don't mean to sound harsh in my response, but maybe you'd sound less harsh if you put some honest constructive criticism into your review.
I'm thinking this may because I sounded harsh when I reviewed one of your songs, but I did offer constructive advice and an honest opinion.
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At first, the song started off like a typical dance song, but when the breakdown occurred, I loved the progression with the piano and the pad chords, and the high energy finish was very powerful, however I'm not tooo sure how I feel about the chromatic descent at the very end of the melodic phrase. It feels kind of overused, especially in this type of music. And excellent song nonetheless, fantastic work.
-ac-
Author's Response:
Can't really say much, besides thank you for the kind comments. Nice to get some friendly reviews from you :D
I hope your revival from the dead was to submit new music :P
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I don't really like the vocals, however the rest of the song is pretty much industry standard awesome.
Very mainstream sounding, as usual, radioworthy, and very catchy, I think this is a great trance piece. Perhaps a chord change later in the song would have tipped the song more into my favor, but as it is, it's still pretty amazing.
Author's Response:
YUP! It's a lesson I've learned a little while ago, but people have been buggin me to see if I could pull it off, so I figured why not show them the best I can give with Lyrics :P
Mainstream... :D
-Imm-
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There's like a ceaseless amount of glitchiness to this track. How you get sooooo gooood
I definitely didn't find this track to be unlistenable, what I do think is a ground-up distorted, wet bass needs to be applied in daubs.
Thanks for sprinkling metal shavings all over me.
-ac-
Author's Response:
Oh thank you! - Now that you're covered in metal shavings I guess this would be a good time to break out the electromagnet eh?
I know this track has a few problems but then again it was all experimental - I really wasn't worried about much of it - I just wanted to test a few new techniques and a couple of new synths.
Thanks for the listen B!
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When the sawpads came stampeding in with the lowpass filter, I kinda crapped my pants, because that was AWESOME.
I love your transitions, that's what sets you apart, methinks. The way you can bring parts in with soooo much power, it just seems effortless. You make me wanna do moooosic
-ac-
Author's Response:
mooooosic, like, like a cow? like, bovine? like a cow? mooo? SWEET!
milosz
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If you turned that damn BOOM into a kick, I'm going to kick you. Then it vanished and sexyness ensued. Man, that saw at the end... wow! Vibrato and heavy reverb, I guess, are the keys to my heart, because fuck that sounded so niiiiiice
-ac-
Author's Response:
BOOM
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Doopy doo doopy doopy
Doopy doo doopy doopy
I've always liked your instrumentation, but I don't know if I've ever pointed that out. That pad you brought in when the bass was all lonely in the middle of the song was pretty awesome. Nice bell melody to drag the song further into the part of my brain that is all sticky...
-ac-
Author's Response:
i don't know to what degree having a sticky part in your brain is acceptable, but i'm sure you know better than me anyway. enjoy your bass!
milosz
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