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[Robot Sound Effect: 1]

Needs working on

I couldn't really tell what this sound was, as when I tried to play it, I heard it loop about 10-12 times. It doesn't fit like the sound of a robot, but that may be down to the whole thing of it being looped incessantly.

As I then listened to it as a sound in it's own right, it does remind me of a Robot moving. However, I've never heard of robots who move that little - it doens't loop too well, so make it about 4-10 seconds long and then the artist can mess about with it as they see fit.

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Conal responds:

Say what?

[Robot Sound Effect: 2]

My god!

The looping really made me (and quite a few bemused faces in the office) sit up and pay attention. The robot noise itself was pretty good, though I did think your author's comments of "Turn it up" was certainly a sick joke.

Like Haggard suggested, put them all together into a large collection of similar sounds, leaving gaps between them, so that artists could choose which sounds were required. (It would also only take up one slot on the audio credits as well :P)

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Conal responds:

Hey, that givez me an Idea....
If people use loadz of slots them I'm moar of an attention whoar.

[Why the Night p8]

Nice tune

I'd say that you need to work on the drag along the strings with your guitars. Maybe turn the amps down slightly, as it sounds like you're trying to drown out each part of the tune with each other bit.

I like the lyrics, but I'm not entirely sure that this is my favourite music. Not that that should take away from the tune at all, it's a good piece.

If the guitar was played maybe an octave higher, it would be in better keeping with the vocals, as the guitar does sound quite deep, comparatively speaking.

Look forward to hearing more of your work.

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LenardNotLenny responds:

Yeah, its kind of hard to turn the chords an octave higher, because they sort of are. And the range is too large for me to move it all up. Thanks for the review, and I will keep on making music.

[Untitled*]

Calm, yearning

This tune appears to want to be something, but it can't quite figure out what. I can now see why you called it 'untitled*'

Works nicely with the badgers graphic and the various parts of the music that you explored over this track certainly lead to a lot of variation, although I'm not sure about the speed increase in the middle of the track onwards.

I was glad when it finally came back down from the sugar high and resumed a more controlled track, like my title suggested.

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[Hind D]

The Final Countdown!

I could quite happily put this on a loop on mu iPod and go for a run with this - nmot sure how long I'd last before collapsing in a heap, as it really does build up to quite a sick pace at the end of the tune.

Reminds me of WipeOut or Sonic the Hedgehog, with the pace of the game, possibly even something where you need to complete a task before the time expires.

A nice track, but might need to explore the possibility of coming down after the speed up, to something slightly more calm.

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[==(Northern Light)==]

Sounds like a B movie

The way it gets going sounds like the start of Beverly Hills Cop - the budget version, starring some actors that no-one has ever heard of. Not that I'm knocking it, because that movie didn't really have many well known actors and it made Eddie Murphy :P

Very mid-80s, in the way that you've played the keyboards and piano, it all comes together very nicely and I can imagine things like either the start of BHC or maybe flying close to the surface of the water, across a calm lake or sea.

The ending was too drawn out and maybe you could have considered adding a pause for the keyboard / strings, to give a small drum solo - keeps the listener on their toes and gives them something to say 'Ah, the artist is still committed here'

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[Warp away]

Nice but short

This has the beginnings of a good tune, with the well displayed properties of making the title of the tune related to the tune itself.

It really needs to be something longer, in order to make the grade, but at least you've got it looping nicely.

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Cyberdevil responds:

Thanks for the review! Maybe I'll make a longer version of this . . .

[Sometime]

Drop the 'four note'

After a few bars, the four notes which you've played through the song seems to be a little out of place. I'd suggest that you dropped it and made a move towards the rest of the tune.

You're good enough to remember rhythm and the best part of this particular piece was in the middle, when you did drop it. To me, it is like riding a bike with stabilisers. You're capable of riding without, so ride without them.

A nice introduction of the drum beat as well, but I think you can do so much more with just keeping this piece to Piano, honestly.

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