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Laid back gamer

Possibly a little early Final Fantasy about this tune, but a nice sound, that puts someone in the mood of a relaxed gamer. You can certainly see the person being bored on a Sunday afternoon and playing games that they didn't necessarily want to play.

I think it's a good looping tune, that required little work. Possibly bringing the backing sounds a little more into play, as they just seem a little quiet at the moment, but giving them a boost certainly wouldn't hurt.

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Silent-G responds:

haha, I really like that description. I've definitely been that type of gamer on a few occasions. thanks for the review, I might try changing some of the levels on this to make it sound better, like you said.

[Franswa - God's Love Remix]

Light and relaxing

This is a piece where I can imaging myself sitting in the garden listening to, as the clouds wheel overhead, revealing the sunlight on a summer's morning.

It's got a nice melody, that certainly carries itself on a wave of good feeling and almost sublime ecstasy in doing very little, which is great.

I'd give the piano a solo on this one, as it would certainly give the whole tune a new wave of joy.

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[Franswa - Norhternlights]

Dark and Mysterious

I can't help but think that this tune has a great sound of being dark and mysterious, with the deep counter-melody that you've employed here, to compliment the melody, which is all light sounding and with the rest of the beat, sounds quite industrious.

The end product is quite a versatile beast that I'm sure the work you've put in will not be in vain - this piece certainly needs to be used. Hell, it even leaps out of the speakers at me, desperate for someone to find a use for it, so it's brilliant.

I'd have loved to hear that darker counter melody in a solo during the middle of the tune, let it take control for a second or 10 and help it develop the tune a little more.

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EternalXIII responds:

Thanks a lot for the reviews! I'm definitely gonna employ your advice!

[Franswa - Teaser two demo]

A little short

I'm looking forward to the real thing, let's put it like that - this is a nice sounding piece that has a good rhythm to carry the piece along. You blended the counter melody in very nicely, which took it to the next step, then just as I was getting into the tune, it stopped.

Give us more from this kind of thing and I'll certainly listen to it and lavish praise on you for it :)

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[Chaotic Freedom]

Hardly Chaotic

It's a nice piece, but it's far too ordered to be called Chaotic Freedom - if you were going for that, you should really have pushed the boat out, giving us something that really doesn't care about how it sounds, for example.

I think that the next logical step for this is to make it longer and add some more variation - it just sounds like a crescendo of similar sounds, each trying to outdo the volume of the last one that played. Experiment with the sounds and always remember that you can make them quieter, to get yourself something that ends up nicely sounding like a release, rather than a collection of competing musicians.

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Insanimation responds:

Thanks. I'll do my best!

[~Cobalt~]

Nice sounds

Good beat, great melody, simple mixing and a nicely rounded product at the far end of the piece.

I like the way that you've added a counter melody to compliment the main melody, without complicating the piece, which I think would damage it, rather than helping it.

This has quite a large scope for being used both as ambient sounds and menu tunes easily. Plus there are always scenes in movies that look for this sort of sound, so give it a little while and you could be making something big out of all of this :)

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[MeZoni TriZoni]

Quite enthralling

A nice piece, that's quite an intense experience - I can certainly see what you're getting at with regards to the way that the music envelops you within the tune and is quite an intense feeling for the whole performance.

I think that you might have considered giving us a bit of a bass solo to bring us back in from the amazing synth riff that you gave us towards the end of the piece. I can't really think of any other way to improve it, as the whole thing was a very well organised tune.

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GlueR responds:

Thanks again for another great review! Hmmm... A bass solo... Well, that's definitely something I haven't tried yet. Come to think of it, even in things I haven't written myself. I've never been involved in any project with a bass solo. That's a good idea to ask the band to start thinking about it and we 'll see how it pans out (in new songs), trying not to make it sound too Mannowar-ish...

[In the news]

Deep within the symbolism,

There is a strong message here, but since I get the vast majority of my news from the BBC, I don't get commercials with it, so I'm better off than this piece points out :P

Still, with the way that the broadcasters paint their pictures these days, it's easy to see why you've come up with a product such as this. I love the tranquil intro and the way that you build it up to a turbulence of gibberish from newsreaders and add some pretty good lyrics to it in the end as well, it's quite gripping.

I think that an instrumental section of slower melody, overlayed with just a few choice headlines could have been a nice suggestion to expand on this piece.

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GlueR responds:

Cheers for the review! You know, it's not the broadcaster's fault and if you think about it, even BBC's main source of income is advertisements. And even if it wasn't, it's not a beneficiary organisation. It has to get money for what it does, and that's selling information.

Another thing I want to promote is political songs. They seem to have eclipsed in the past couple of decades. And the expression of a political opinion through art hasn't been substituted by anything else. Unfortunately, thinking is becoming increasingly passé. The new thing is bling, wheel rims, hoes and bitches, the all time favorites of subjects around love, and last but not least, sexual provocation. Everyone is going back to the roots... Back to the time we were still monkeys.

[I was made for lovin' you]

Awesome

This cover is absolutely brilliant. Considering how faithful to the original it sounds, granted that you're not going to have vocals like Paul Stanley, but you made it sound brilliant nonetheless.

I think that you've taken the time that is needed to make a great take of a good Kiss Song. If it had been recorded in a studio like they used for the original one, it would have sounded even better and closer to the real thing, no doubt at all.

Are you going to do any more Kiss, or will you be putting some of your own pieces up next?

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GlueR responds:

Why thank you! This was actually a one off thing. I'm sure, though, that if another chance like this album pops up, we 'll be up to it.

For the next four months, I'll be deep into working for my band's first official studio album. We've agreed on a contract with the label and we'll be signing it next week. Hopefully, the album will be in stores in October.

[Let's Fuck - sensual version]

Not a bad loop :)

Here we have a great piece of ambience that would be useful for so many things - as this goes, you've certainly got a lot of applications for such a tune as this one. Games developers would be stupid not to want to use this in for menus, actual gameplay and even more. It's a great little tune that can be applied to things like a quiet background tune in certain clubs for movies, for example.

I think it could have done with a little more variation, as it can get very repetitive rather quickly, which is a shame. Perhaps fade out the beat for a cycle or two and have the melody play some sort of solo that brings another layer of life to it. This would require the track being a bit longer to cope, but I'm sure you're capable of it :)

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