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[electroniska (preview)]

Rulage!

I think it works very well, actually.

You're doing a real good job exploring the thin line between challenging and annoying music lately, and from my point of view you hit bullseye with this one. It's very humorous and yet you didn't half-ass the composition. That's what good parody is - making fun of something and paying it a tribute at the same time.

I'd make the cymbal a little less loud and that's about all I can advise. I loved the tubudup-tup-tup bass, and all the ska syncopation. I assume when (if?) you finish this, you're going to make it even weirder, and I'm looking forward to that.

Fifen. I've got a new song up as well btw, Lower Norfair from Super Metroid in a 12/8 electrofunk. Check it out!

attemptedperfection responds:

Oh, I am definitely planning on finishing this one; I even have pseudo-pop lyrics in the works, similar to "pop my words"; it's going to be catchy as hell. I'll head over to check out your new track as soon as I get the chance.
Thanks for the review!

[Alrighty then]

Damn it...

...now when I'm going to finish my close harmony song everybody will think I stole the idea from you!!

This is very good. Every note makes sense, both in the separate melody lines and in overall harmonization. The cheesy mol/dur add2 ending is instant joy. Fifen.

Check out some of my stuff.

[Cold V.1.0]

k then

Hey man, this is another remarkable piece of work.
It's a bit like Massive Attack, which it so happens I've just been listening to.

It's very calm and quite chilling ("Cold" XD). The rhythm section is so offbeat it's scary. And then you reward my patience with that awesome distorted flute or something

It needs a B-section though. It doesn't completely satisfy me that the last thing that happens is that flute-thingy entering. I'm mainly looking for a different chord scheme here, and perhaps a little more drums, to conceive the suspicion that it's going to become a catchy D'nB-track :)
But the mood is wonderful, again, you've really got a huge talent for that. I'll be on the lookout for the new versions.

And 3.00 makes no sense so I'll fifen.

Now go review my new submission, Lower Norfair, because you took away the attention by posting after me in the Advertisements thread!! ;)

pitbulljones responds:

Thanks again wintang, its great to get good feedback on me tunes, n im happy that you enjoyed it too. Yes this is the first time i havent used drum loops, i fully programmed me own, so its partly an experiment to see whether i can do drum programmeing.

there is a second section for this tune, it just isnt finished, total change of key and a poundiong drum but i need sum bass and lead on it.

That distorted flute is actually a guitar lead i did for this track but i didnt like it, so i reveresed it layed sum delay and a thick reveb and voila.

and of course ill go and review your tune man, i loved metroid on the snes so no probs.

thanks for the fifen, n yea keep listening.

[Lower Norfair / Magmoor]

Pretty cool

Hi! I just uploaded a remix of Lower Norfair, so I thought I'd check out some other versions. I know you uploaded this a year ago, but I thought I'd review anyway.

So, this is very nice. I like the unpolished sound of the guitars, and the drums were very good. The bass is a little dominant, mainly in the beginning, and the synths are slightly out of key. Otherwise, it's very good.

Did you ever check out metroidmetal.com by the way? It has an insane version of it. Also, if you'd like to check out my version:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=907376&sub=4946
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[Death of the Unicorn]

Pretty awesome!

Dude this is a very good piece right here, you deserve a lot more recognition than you're getting currently. (Unless you stole this, of course, but I don't really think so.)

It builds up great, introduces a steady beat, the composition is minimalistic but interesting enough.

Is the guitar real? It really fits the piece with the flamenco style note phrasing, I just think it is a tad too loud in the mix.

The vocals seem a bit corny, I could've done without them. I don't know if it's sampled or not - if it's you, congratulations on your stable voice - but it makes it lean too much toward New Age shit such as Enigma and Enya which does not appeal to me at all.

But otherwise, excellent job. I'll vote teh fifen. Check out some of my stuff too! And keep 'em coming.

Shazbat responds:

Ta! The reason for the vocals was to push the programs I use crashing point, mainly to test how far i can go in the future. Some of the instuments come across too loud only in the 96kb/sec version on here, unfortunatly as you might know compression can do some weird things to sound files. The full 192 version (as all my stuff is normally done in 192) has the guitars and vocals much further in the background :). Glad you like bits of it though,it was purely an experiment :)

[Marble Stairs]

Actually

Yeah, what Krakko said means a great deal. The use of pre-made loops is what made your song totally uninteresting - of course it's going to sound uninspired when you just put some loops together. Anyone can do that, and music that anyone can make is boring.

cosmicrandom responds:

It's just a fucking song dude.

[Night Terror]

Awesome!

God, that beat is meaner than my Hitler Hacks LINUX one!! XD

Terrific job. Only things were that the interlude was a bit too long for my liking - I was really missing that phat beat there for too long! - and the fade-out which I felt as an uncalled for anticlimax.

The whole arrangement of the samples is wonderful. I'm loving the eerie shards of synth melodies, and the spacy sound FX.

Hey! On repeat, I notice that the string section closely resembles a part of one of the battle tracks from Heroes Of Might And Magic III. Was that intentional?

dj-padman1 responds:

I don't know about your first comment! But I'm flattered you say so, I heaped a lot of distortion and grit on it.

Interlude..you're right..I got carried away with it a bit. Probably wanted 1 or 2 less repeats and maybe some sparse but heavily processed beats. The strings should probably be dropped immediately after the beat comes in.

Live and learn I guess! Glad you liked the synth melodies, it was a fluke that the LFO's worked out like they did, I usually ravage tracks (my own) totally when I start messing around with those things.

I must have a listen to your Heroes of Might and Magic song, I promise you I've never heard it before. It wouldn't surprise me if they're alike, I think we're on a similar wavelength.

Thats scary..for you...:p

Catch ya around.

[I'm Not Coming Down (preview)]

Hmm

I'm not so sure about this, to be honest.

I can see where you're coming from, but that might just be the problem - I feel you're making it too obvious that you're working against the "clarity rules", so to speak. It's mainly the distortion on the hi-hat that I feel is too much in-your-face-lo-fi. The drums are very loud in the mix too, and the combination for me goes just a little beyond acceptable experimentalism, tending toward insulting the listener, and I'm not exactly one to turn down some good old noise.

I do like the whole goofy synth idiom, and the melodies are very good. It would be awesome if you take some time to fugue-ishly build up some weird harmonies using several themes, once in a while resorting to chaotic atonality. Ideas like these are best executed with lots of virtuosity, which I know you're perfectly capable of.

Just my $0.02, of course. And I'll even fifify to counter the zero-voting it already seems to have endured. There's how much I love ya.

Oh and e-mail me about the CD swapping. My e-mail is now in my profile too.

attemptedperfection responds:

thanks for your honesty, and for the review; I haven't exactly put much effort into this, and I guess it shows... I just kinda started out with the idea to use four different bass drums... *shrugs*

[Emeril]

Writing this along with the song, so, incoherent

Dance based around sustaining harmonics! Top stuff. Lovin' the bass. Lovin' the meaner passages with the throbbing synths. Beat is nicely lukewarmly soft, but the kick could've used an edge. Hey! That bassline sounds like the one in "Smack my bitch up"! It's very soothing and uplifting at the same time. It does go on long, but eventually it drifts gently to the back of my mind, and that feels nice.

Check out my song "Sharkpool", it has a melody line that consists entirely of harmonics! :)

Triskele responds:

WOW!!! so sorry it took me so long to respond...we kinda had a nice review exchange goin down! Well, I'll respond now...2 months later lol.

[The Creggan White Hare]

For the love of God!

Tune your guitar (or is a mandolin?) man! Jesus, it fucks up all the interludes! I'm inclined to not review this to teach you a lesson!

But I won't. Because otherwise it's very nice indeed, I hope that's you singing because it's a very special voice... nicely low and warm, and you move freely in the music. Not outstanding in terms of accurately hitting the notes, but I have never cared about that much, and if anything, it helps compensate the out of tune guitar (or is it a mandolin?).

The flute and that other thing (please tell me what that is) are awesome. Is that you too (no U2 pun intended)? You could've turned the vocals up a bit, it's difficult to make out the lyrics at times.

Wow. It's very long indeed. That's courageous of you. Not a lot of people might like this. But I do. Except for the guitar. Or is it a mandolin?

Triskele responds:

Actually, it's a dulcimer...and it's in tune. I'm not very good at playing it though. I'm working on it!

Thing number two = Bagpipe chanter. And I played all the instruments on this, so yeah I played that :)