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[Circle of Flight]

Well played

A very nice sounding piece, full of a background sense of trepidation and a wonderful sense of being and living for the moment in the foreground.

I love the synth that you put as the main counter melody - it worked really well. The melody was good, which gives the impression of walking in the air, rather than flying - flight would feel a little faster and probably a little more powerful for me.

I think that the start of it is symbolic of the adrenaline rush and perhaps a fear of the unknown, before it drains away towards exaltation and the flight itself. Marvellous.

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WritersBlock responds:

Thank you. Yeah, realistically, flight is fast, but flight gives me the impression of floating in air, quite slow, the horizon is much farther away, and it takes longer to get there. That and travelling through endless amounts of the same scenery, that's why I chose for a slower, more soothing piece.
Thanks for the review. :D

[Heartache]

Too chilled for me

I think that this tune is just a little bit too chilled for me - it's quite quiet and relaxing, but for me, it seems like it's more an ambient song than anything else. For Trance, I'd go for something with a little more beat.

I think that you've certainly produced a nice piece, but it needs a little something else for it to be one of my favourites. Perhaps try adding some strings next, as this piece seems to be hovering around ambient, so give it a little more nice guy imagery.

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[-rT- Paradox]

A little short

This track is good, but to make it better, I'd certainly consider adding another minute of music to this track. I'm glad it loops so well, but with a little more, you could make this so much more.

You've done well with the variation, because listening to this track a few3 times over and it doesn't seem to get repetitive, which is a good mark for any tune. Still, a little to work on, so keep it up :)

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[RES - I Don't Care]

Doesn't sound like you don't care :P

A nice tune, which is certainly very upbeat and a well presented piece. I would consider showing more variation, including a few more solos, without the beat to carry the tune along.

I think that it's a really nice tune, that I could see going as far as the mainstream, if only you added something like vocals to it, which would be awesome.

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Swerve responds:

The maintream.. That is a great compliment:D I don't really think it will, but thanks for the kind words!
Thank you for your review,

-RES

[==(Cloudclimber)==]

Climb to the sky

This tune tells me to reach as high as I can, and take what I can reach. I love the way that you've added the whale song to the tune, to give a little extra emotional impetus to the piece.

I think that you've spent a lot of time on this piece and the only way I can see to improve it would be to shorten the intro and make it slightly louder a little quicker, as it seems very quiet and takes a good few seconds to get into the tune.

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[-=SummerStorm=- ( demo)]

Interesting

A good offering that doesn't exactly remind me of summer, but it does certainly call forth imagery of rainstorms, when viewed from either indoors, or atop a hill, when it rains in the valley below.

Quite a calming sound that this song has is a great way to unwind from the stresses of a day in the workplace. Nice stuff.

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[+Metro Station+]

Not bad

I think that you've produced a nice loop here - the main issue seems to me to be that you're trying to cram too much into it all for just under a minute. It's a very busy tune, which could possibly use being dragged out a little to reach the full potential.

I think that if you refined the quality on this a little, you'd end up with a nice industrial piece - make the bass more prominent and lower the volume on the rest slightly, but noticeably and you're making good strides towards the conclusion of a nice tune.

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WritersBlock responds:

Hey thanks for the review. Nice tips. Yeah, in my past few tracks I've been trying to space things out, probably too much so, and now I'm just reverting to a clustered, relatively unorganised mess, not to say that unorganised messes are bad or anything... but a bit organisation generally keeps me on track a bit better. I pumped this out pretty quickly, so I guess a few flaws are bound to happen when you don't listen x amount of times before you click "submit". I listened x-1 times before submitting, so I feel it's not too bad, but it's definitely no masterpiece.

[** \Guitar Challenge - So]

Good sounds

This piece is a nice entry for the competition. I can see you going far with the talent like this. I assume that you played it yourself, rather than using a synth program for it.

I'd love to hear the extra things that could be added to this piece - take it further and develop it into a proper song, with drums, bass and of course optional vocals.

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Sonofkirk responds:

Yeah I played it on an actual guitar. Didn't you hear the drums and the bass ? The backing track contains bass an drums :P. Thanks for the review dude.

[{agnryfaic} Hardstyle]

Not my thing - but good nonetheless

So this piece isn't exactly my favourite genre, but I don't care, as it's a well designed, arranged and performed song - you've got a great pumping beat through the intro, which leads nicely into the melody and the counter melody blends in nicely alongside it.

With a little more effort, it could really have something to drive it through, but it just seems to lack that killer instinct for me, when the beat rejoins the melody. I'm not sure why it doesn't quite seem to work the best, but that's probably when my understanding of this genre are over-extended.

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agnryfaic responds:

Nah, I had the same feeling, I thought it sounded good, but it didn't give me ''goosebumps''. Yes, I get goosebumps from hardcore/hardstyle tracks :p

Thanks for the rev ;)

[[LY] `Asylum, --]

Nice looping

Certainly a better piece than I thought it was going to turn out. At 45s long, there isn't much potential for variation, but you seem to have given us something to chew on.

Considering how you've given a quite varied piece over such a short time span without labouring the point, shows that it is possible and people really need to respond to this raising of the bar.

It's got a good pace and the way that you raise the pitch, before the loop reaches the conclusion and returns to the start. It just finishes it off nicely.

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