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[White]

Turn professional!

This is a truly amazing piece and I'm surprised that if you haven't already become a professional musician, you need to consider it.

While this is a nice gig on the side, you gould be pulling in a large audience who would pay good money (real money) to listen to you perform. There is no higher praise that I can give for this piece, as you have certainly smoothed out a few earlier rough edges in your style and this sounds eerily reminiscent of the one tune played at the end of a certain Lee Evans gig. He's a funny man, but he can play a good piano as well.

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[Talking To Myself]

Well worked

I'm not entirely sure about the sound that starts at the intro - I don't even know what instrument it is, but I personally found it really annoying and I think it is holding your song back a little.

The pause in the middle could have been made just that little bit longer, for more effect. Those are the only niggles, with what i found was overall a very nice song.

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LenardNotLenny responds:

Cool. Yeah... it was a synth on a keyboard with a very obscure Garageband filter. Thanks for your feedback.

[Computer LuV]

Not sure about the title...

But this is still a nice tunem, nonetheless. Ah, so you've done a remake of something by Kraftwerk. That explains a lot, really.

Not that I've got anything against them - I've heard Bill Bailey's rendition of 'Das Hokie Kokie', which was a very good interpretation of the tune.

You've given us a nice insight into what goes on inside the minds of the members of Kraftwerk - gears meshing in perfect synchronisation.

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[Zafer-- Tribute of XEPHER]

Sounds like TATU

Not that that's exactly a bad thing. The start of the tune, with the vocals sounding like a band which used sexuality to get to the top of the UK charts.

You certainly cut loose from that after the intro, didn't you? The tempo leapt to light-speed, which in all honesty was just a little too quick for my liking. I quite liked the addition of the occasional piece of guitar, or similar sounding instrument. It wasn't quite trance enough, because I thought that trance tunes were meant to make your ears bleed, weren't they?

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[//Spanish Intrustion [Fire]]

Ambient

Not exactly my kind of music, but I can see the inspiration being something of a hot day in either Spain or Mexico, with the dust blowing lazily around a courtyard and the locals taking a quick siesta.

This seems like they are getting ready to rteturn to their tasks, as the way the music seems to work, it sounds as if they are slowly and tiredly getting up and having a stretch.

Maybe add a second guitar at points, to give a counter melody, which would probably enhance the voerall appearance of the tune.

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[Spanish Inspiration [Cardiac]]

Not sure about the intro, to be honest

A good song - well delivered on the guitar, but I think that the artist talking at the start was just a waste of time. Just give us the guitar in its own right, where it can be showcased for how good it is.

I saw it was a Hip Hop song, but I really don't think that it was, as I kept expecting some rapper to give some lyrical assistance to the tune. That is Hip Hop, isn't it?

The tempo was good, as was the rhythm. Maybe needed to ahve a little piece which deviated from the actual pattern of the tune itself, otherwise it is just ambient, which I don't think you were gunning for here.

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[Man In the Smoking Mirror]

Creepy and Surreal

The intro is very surreal, as if someone is walking through a deserted old house, full of dust and cobwebs.

Then it takes a turn for the macabre, as someone or something startles them and the chase is on. They run and somewhere along the line, there is either the chased being caught, or some other reason that the tune directs us back to the start. Maybe they were just listening to an old music box after all?

Goodnight children, sleep well. *Evil laugh*

An evil laugh would really have capped this off, not very loud, but in the background at the end, just enough to make the hairs on the back of the neck stand on end.

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WritersBlock responds:

Lol, nice story. The evil laugh is a good idea. I've got to remember that...

[Ear Party Pt.1]

Addictive

I liked the way that it sounded like a video game at the end - a highly unusual way of finishing off a tune like that.

Still, it's not how it ends that underlines the sound completely. I think that this has got quite an addictive beat, which has drawn me in. I think that you've reused too many beats here and could do with adding something new in, just to keep it in some sort of order (Verse - Chorus - Verse2 - Chorus - Verse3 - Chorus, maybe)

Considering how it evolves into something completely different,from start to finish, you really do need to release a part 2.

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[Vondelpark High]

Great bassline

Set the tone for the whole song with a great layer of bass. I think it's always good to give the audience in a Jazz track the bassline first, so they know what sort of tempo to expect.

A nice counter melody with the high pitched keyboard - the middle part of that lead had a group of notes that seemed to trail down the scale a little too quickly, like a guy walking down a hill, who slips on a wet patch of grass and suddenly find himself at the bottom of said hill.

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JCsoul responds:

Thanks for your review man.

Maybe there are some off tempo notes in the lead that escaped me and Jurian, we´ll make it better next time. ;)

[Unique*]

Good use of Sax

This sounded different to start with with what sounded like a little skatting in the background. When I listened more closely, I realised that it was the sounds of traffic, possibly as somone is coming into the bar from the city streets for a little warmth and comfort. However, when it got properly started, the whole song put together nicely, with great contributions from all the component parts.

The saxaphone was quite dominant when it came on, cutting through the rest of the tune and stealing the spotlight for a few moments, before stepping into the darkness and allowing the rest of the arrangement to carry on the momentum, while the player regains his breath.

Did you put all of this together on a computer, or did you use a keyboard to play each piece and change the instruments accordingly?

One or two duff notes that I heard on the third pass, but they are barely perceptible and nobody's perfect, are they?

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Jurian responds:

I use a keyboard to record all this, then I put different instruments on it. Thanks for your long review.