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[Red Sunday]

Takes a while to get going...

Not a bad tune, per se, but it has a few rough edges. Your timing is just a little off, in my opinion. It's hard to describe exactly how, but some of your cues seem to come in just about half a tick late.

The whole tune seems to take a run up, which unfortunately takes up most of the run time, which I found dissappointing. When I looked at the time to start, it looked like a nice spread, but when it takes such a wind up, you need to consider bringing the components together faster, or lengthening the piece.

[Review Request Club]

[==(Melting Snow)==]

Ah, glacial spring water.

What an amazing tune. I'm really in the mind of the beginnings of a mighty river with this piece, as if the tiniest drops of water will somehow form one of the world's major waterways, tracing a patch through the countryside into the vast oceans.

The length is truly epic, possibly reminiscent of how slowly snow actually melts, unless you are an 8 year old boy, because let's face it, the snow is always gone far too quickly when you're 8 :P

How can this be improved upon? That's always a tough question when I'm leaving critiques for you, as there really isn't much you can do, save maybe putting in some sort of phase of calm in the middle - possibly the watter coming to rest in an inland lake, before being rained down to continue its journey?

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[Time*]

Very Soft Rock

Not what I'd classify as rock, but everybody has their own tastes, don't they?

It loops well, so you've got the first part of the track sorted. I'm really not sure of how to describe this track, other than suggesting that you add more emphasis to the piano, which is certainly a new angle with your own pieces :P

We've spent ages telling you that you don't put enough emphasis on the other instruments, but now it's almost drowned out the piano, which is sad, since it's such a strong instrument.

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[The Valley]

What can I say?

Your pieces are still improving, although by listening to them, it would seem that there is really no way that you could improve. It starts off nice and calm, but it really does pick up nicely.

Certainly some good mood music for a resteraunt or hotel foyer. Have you considered farming out your talents to this industry?

To make this even better, it loops really well. This would be ideal for the above task, I'd wager.

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[+After the Fallout+]

Nice use of Sax

This is a well performed piece, with a good piano track, well complimented by the use of the Saxophone.

I think it ends rather abruptly and to be honest, you could use some percussion to round the whole piece off nicely.

The length was good and all together it sounded good, but not brilliant.

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WritersBlock responds:

Thanks for the review. I wasn't sure how to put percussion in this, so I usually leave that sort of thing alone. Cheers, the comments have been noted.

[Toxic Snake]

Is Toxic a style?

I'm just asking because I've never heard of it before... perhaps I'm getting old :$

Anyway, is the snake reference in connection with the animal or the computer game? It could be either way - the computer game version being a nice backing tune for said game, I'm sure.

I'm not entirely sure by how the song ends with the massive Bass Crescendo, as the bass tends really to drown out the rest of the tune, sadly. Working on toning down the bass might help, unless you tried to tone up the rest of the song, to compensate, that is.

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Assios responds:

No, Toxic isn't a style ;P The snake was originally referenced in connection with the animal, but maybe it fits in the comuter game ;) Thanks for your review!

[p4c-Revenge]

Good tune

This tune is certainly a well rounded tune. It's got a few parts that I don't neccesarily agree with, but you can't please everyone. I'd have made it into a proper loop for one, so you can just leave it to run as the background track for a game, as it's just that quality that you're after - not too repetitive, but not so changing that it's going to distract you easily.

I'd add a part in the middle where the rest of the tune stopped and went on a long solo with the deep bass, just to detract from the strings. You've got a few lines of this bass alone, but it could be so much more.

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p4c responds:

i dont think ill make it loopable--if someone wants that they can jst pm me--but i do see where ur coming from with the bass solo--i just imagined a tune for that and it seemed so badass in my mind!! if i come back to this ill definately consider ur advice, thanx for the constructive rev :)

[.:When I Come Back:.]

Nice work

So you've given us maybe 7 or 8 different notes on the piano in this repeating loop? I don't really care that it's that simple, because it sounds so damn effective. The melody that you've played over the top just makes it sound so complete and the extra sounds you've added really do the whole thing some kind of justice.

What I'd suggest is that you stretch it out a little more, as it's a little on the short side at 1 1/2 minutes long. If you could reach 3 minutes, you'd be able to fit so much more variation in, taking the listener for a journey around their own mind. Most of the track is already there, so the variation is only the real work that you'd need to put in ;)

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[Move On*]

Flute sounded off.

Aside from the slightly out-of key sounding flute, this piece was great. The piano is very emotive and dominant, as usual with your pieces. Youv'e used the drum beat sparingly, but well.

I'd suggest that you listen to the flute part of this tune again and maybe tweak it slightly, as it tended to take the sheen off an otherwise very impressive (even by the high expectations I have for you) song.

[Review Request Club]

[midnight party]

Nice, but a little short.

A decent start to your Trance journey.

The beat is good and the addition of various counter-beats works quite well. I liked the fade out in the middle, as it brought everything back down to earth before starting with the second wave of sonic assault :P

It loops quite well, which does detract slightly from the fact that it is an overall quite short piece.

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aldlv responds:

a decent start..
sound good...
I think you are right
thanx