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[Digesting Earth]

Old school ringtone

Sorry, but this is far too repetitive, to take up 4 minutes. The melody keeps recycling every 2-3 seconds and the beat isn't much better. You've reminded me that there used to be tunes like this to get people's attentions on mobile phones in the '90s like this.

This is the sort of tune that makes me want to destroy said phone, since it's very one dimensional and it does the piece no justice in playing it over and over again. Throw in lots of variation and maybe a solo or tow, to stop people being bored to death by listening to the piece.

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[O.H.35 - Rocket]

A little repetitive

Despite the length of this track being quite epic and drawn out, it seems that you're still lacking in overall variation, which is slightly saddening. Taking some of the beats and melodies and messing with them would certainly help.

Do leave the guitar solo alone, as that is by far the best part of this track. It broke it up fine, but then it went back to the monotony and the random shouts that I can't understand. If people could hear what you're saying or shouting there, it might work a lot better.

Still, there's some really good work in there.

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OH35 responds:

Thank you for another constructive review!
The variation in this piece mostly consist of effects going in/out of the song. I believe that for a first song it ended pretty well with enough variations, even if "minimalistics"

We are working on adding more variety to our tracks, your suggestions are a great help to us.

Thanks again.

[Infernal_Regions [Box-Killa]]

Good pace

I'm getting down with this song. I think that you've certainly gone for the quick fire version and have pushed the piece onwards with some urgency, but to keep with the title, I'd have had some massive heavy drum beats coming in there, kind of like industrial hammers pounding down very slowly and pacing out a sub-beat every once in a while. It might make the mood more infernal, as opposed to the way that this just sounds frantic.

With the rest of the track as it is, you've given us a good selection of instruments and a nice melody to boot!

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[.:A New Life v2:.]

Good work

While this was a piece that faded away towards the end, I still think you did a great job with it. There's a good sense of purpose to this 'life' in the beat and the way that the melody is quite simple, but rather effective is a good sign.

Perhaps there is a little more scope to expand upon the track and get a little more variation in, but you've got a good start made, nonetheless and this can certainly be viewed as a very sturdy foundation and probably more than that.

I wasn't entirely happy with the counter melody, because it seemed to go against the melody, as opposed to complimenting it. More work is required there, I feel.

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GronmonSE responds:

Leave it to Coop to kill the streak of 10's )':

By counter melody, I imagine you mean the violin detaches. I personally didn't feel it going against the main melody, I thought it added a more dramatic feeling to it. But hey, music's subjective. I could have played a little more with that I guess.

Thanks for the review :D

[Out of My Sight]

Nice vocals

I love how you've built a reasonably sedate sounding piece around the vocals. It sounds like you came up with the basic melody, then got the vocals sorted, before fleshing the whole piece out, much like drawing a complex image - start with the sketch of the background, work out the shape of the main subject and then tidy everything else up, so that it all looks nice as a finished article.

With the way that the music sounds, perhaps you could have provided more background detail, as it does get a little repetitive after a time, but I think that there is a good case for the vocals to stop and give you a good solo, that perhaps has a better beat, but other than that, you've done a good job.

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MusicIsBliss responds:

I had never really even thought of trying vocals before instruments until this song, I do agree that this process makes the song fit together a lot better, and I will probably try it again in the near future. I kind of got bored of working on the song after a while, which is why I don't have much detail, all I really did for that was att delay to the vocals when vocals aren't playing.

[SN | Obscene Amounts of Steam]

Quite enthralling

I like the way that this piece has a great chillout factor to it, allowing the listener to get into a state of mind about relaxing, before the heavier, pacier beat comes along and takes the song onwards.

With the way that it seems to be quiet and calm, I can imagine lying down in a dark room, with only a fibre optic tree for company. You switch the power on and watch as the lights play patterns across your psyche, allowing you to visit places usually reserved for users of hard drugs.

I think that you've worked hard on this piece and I could see it being used as the sort of track for a slightly downmarket brothel or massage parlour in certain flash movies I've seen. The pace could be the sex and the twinkle could be what they're really trying to look like - the 'legitimate front', if you will.

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SessileNomad responds:

chicken strip, you crazy...

[Lighteyed]

Interesting melody

I think that you've set the scene well with the nice beat to the piece and the synth overtones, that get the track ready. I'm not sure about the pauses that you use in order to get the piece some variation in the early going. Scratching is all well and good, but I didn't feel that was the time or the place for it, to be honest.

With the way that it seems to have worked out, you've got some great samples of melody that really do seem to work well, but there is little to integrate them with the rest of the track, in order to progress the piece as a whole.

I can see that you've got the talent to take this further, but the difficult part is what you need to face up to. Get yourself a decent melody to base the track around and be vicious with the editing, so that you've pulled a couple of minutes out, giving us a more detailed piece, that knits together better.

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Sawdust responds:

I might as well trim some segments or add a melody. Probably restructure it, add a solo or something. Thanks so much for the feedback.

[[dj-Jo] Battery Life]

Good pace and melody

I think that there is a nice buildup here that certainly does turn the piece into a very nice sounding tune. Slowly adding new bits and pieces to the track, you get a much more rounded piece, even if it did start a little slow and quiet for my liking.

Once the melody came in, the track came to life and it was as if the lights had been switched on, giving the track a vision of purpose and direction. From there it came forward, to the front, allowing for some relevance to come with the pause in the middle, as opposed to the silence at the start.

With the way that everything seems to fit together from there, I'd have appreciated a little more bass, just to add some more emphasis and be a decent foil to the rapier of the melody

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dj-Jo responds:

ok, I'll keep your suggestion in mind when I submit my next song!

Thanks for reviewing. :D