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[TransAmbience]

Tranquil

An interesting crossover of styles, with the way that this piece tends to gravitate more toward the ambient, then suddenly launches into this dance track, which is quite a contrast, although much has been worked on here in a definite concerted effort to blend the styles and make the transition as smooth and subtle as possible. I like the way it turned out, but I'm still not entirely sure of how it goes when the trance cuts in and the ambience is completely removed.

Personally, I would have kept the ambience running in the background, just to keep that part of the track going - when the trance cuts in completely, it takes over, which shouldn't be the case.

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jxl180 responds:

Ive gotten this suggestion a lot. I try it.

jxl180

[Paper Mario - Tutankoopa]

Old Skool Tribute

This tune certainly conjures up imagery of Mario from his earliest incarnations, during the first golden age of Nintendo gaming. Though it does have a taste of the Orient / Egypt about it, which I think works really well. I think that the Chinese oriental sounding bits and pieces complimented the Egyptian theme, which would be suggested by the title of this piece.

Though the ending fades out over about 10 seconds too much, it does calm down nicely towards the end, but if it were to be used in a game, it would be the major stumbling block for the author of that game.

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ninjakoopa-33 responds:

I'm glad you liked the Oriental / Egyptian sound. I'm actually surprised that it worked lol!
I understand that the ending kinda fades out too much, and would be a problem if it was used in a game.
Anyways, thanks for the review!

[Asteriod Chillout]

Floating

I can clearly feel myself floating through space, gently carried by the gravitational pull of the many asteroids around me. Tranquil, in a dangerous sort of way, which the bass beat really seems to embrace and convey. It's beautiful and yet somehow quite dangerous, but in the same way that a mountain is quite dangerous - if you do something stupid, it will kill you, so for now, just lie back and enjoy the view.

The melody is incredibly tranquil, which reminds me of floating on a swimming pool or lake, with not a care in the world, while the bass beat also kindles thoughts about what amazing natural forces must have been present to make such an amazing spectacle. Great work.

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[HungHimselfWithAGuitarString]

Quite Dark

Mind you, what are we really to expect with a name like "Hung Himself With A Guitar String"?

So this tune encompasses all aspects of pain, fear, foreboding about one's impending doom and possibly regret as well. The feelings of what might have been must play upon the minds of those about to commit such an act of senseless ending.

I think that these emotions have been well documented and transmitted to the music, with a slow and painful death being more appropriate than a quick snap of the neck here. Since using a guitar string would tend to be more suicide than a professional execution, it wouldn't tend to engender the sudden end of a snapped neck, although I feel the track could benefit from a sudden ending, nonetheless.

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SymbolCymbal responds:

thanks for the awesome review but can i ask you a question?
can i buy some acid from you .. lol j/k
i really do appreciatte the visual aspect that you put twords the song..... i wrote it along time ago and decided to record it when i had an audio interface to mess with.
but in al seriousness i was just listening to beck when i named the song.. the darkness o fthat one line "He hung himself with a guitar string" just kinda stuc in my mind.
again thank you for the awesome review

[Deeper Into The Mansion]

Haunted House Drum n Bass Style

Hmm, I wasn't genuinely sure what to make of this when I first heard it. The basic rhythm piece works well enough, with a good beat to back it up. Then you went for the nice low-budget sounding horror pieces, just to give some atmosphere. The only thing we didn't have was a 'Vincent Price' laugh.

I think that it can be taken further, but in order to do that, you need to tidy up the few patches of static that are on the main loop, as it's just a little niggle, but sadly is ever-present in the song.

With that out of the way, you could go for some dark, bass pieces, which could be how things go when the lights go out in this house of horrors, for example.

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[Solus- Cast Off]

Very Final Fantasy

This just reminds me of a general startup tune for the introduction of a Final Fantasy Saga, which builds up the expectations of a wonderful story that will take up the next 6-8 weeks of your free time in order to complete it.

I think that you've surpassed most piano on this site with this layout. It's a wonderful piece that conjures up such amazing imagery, but I would have to ask if it is hand played or whether you did it via a programme?

You've taken this piece to such incredible highs and lows on what has proven to be quite an emotional ride and though it sounds like one piece, it has proven to have much more depth and even a few chapters to in, none too dissimilar from an overture from soundtracks of all the great film scores.

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SolusLunes responds:

I wish I could say it was hand played- but alas, I cannot play the piano, so I had to use Reason to write this in. Well, rather, it kind of was hand played, as each note was played through a midi keyboard, just that it wouldn't sound anything like the song if you heard me play it. I really more entered this song in five-note or so increments, continuing as I felt I got it right. :D

[Solus- Forever Never]

Sounds more like classical to me

A nice piece, with the piano playing second fiddle to the percussion and brass, which is weird - the piano should and does tend to be one of the dominant pieces of an orchestra.

I'm interested in how you got inspired for this piece - the way that it sounds is that there is some sort of force sallying out slowly from a stronghold towards a battle. It doesn't sound like they got there, but it does seem that they marched out solemnly toward whatever fate they could carve for themselves.

To alter the piece, I'd make the piano the central part, which to me seems like a no-brainer, because pieces like this tend to get carried by such a powerful and expressive instrument.

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SolusLunes responds:

Ehhhhhhhhhhhh.

I DO like the piano, and I agree it does an epic job of carrying many music pieces, but I wanted to try something new for a lot of this.

The inspiration: First I started with the steel-string guitar part. Then it built from there- I guess it was just a result of tooling around in Reason.

[[AF] Godfather of Hardstyle]

Hard indeed

Certainly a hard, pumping beat, that has beaten the soft, grey matter between my ears into submission.

I think that you could have done with a few more bits and pieces of the tune, when you didn't have the driving beat, as aside from the driving beat, you had some other good tools to drive the tune along. An awesome cracking beat and the melody that came through at about the 2 minute marker. Sadly, when other parts of the tune increased in volume, you couldn't hear it, which was a real shame.

If you focused on these more subtle parts, I think this song would be brought a lot further forward. At least it's something to work on for the next version.

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agnryfaic responds:

Yeah, a couple of more hours of finetuning would've worked like a charm. Sadly, I'm a lazy bastard, so I didn't D:

Thanks for the rev ;)

[Toxic Biohazard V2]

Nah...

I'm not such a fan of this piece, as I was of the first one. You've made this shorter, less committed with regards to length and although you've made an attempt to loop it, you need to spend more time making sure that it sounds just right.

The concept of a biohazard is seemingly wandering lost in this tune, which is a shame. I can't really relate to anything to do with a biohazard for this one, so maybe I'm missing something along the way.

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loogiesquared responds:

._.

[Toxic Biohazard]

A shame it's so short

The real issue with this tune is that it is only 30 seconds long. Without wanting to sound unfair or anything, it doesn't loop, so you've lost out on both aspects - if it were about 2-3 minutes long, it would be acceptable as a tune. Otherwise, if it was looping well, it wouldn't sound so... off.

I think that the tune that you've presented is nice, with a few bits and pieces that sound like you've thought about a Toxic Biohazard and how people responding to such an alert would be like. I think you've encapsulated that initial panic, but it's the aftermath that you want to take further and expand upon.

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