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[Alive(Original)(emc)]

9 Minutes?!

Aside from this track being too long, you've given us a neat production. It's well balanced and can carry its own weight in terms of the beat and the melody. I'd suggest that you halve it for length though, as I've never seen songs of this genre that have to last any longer than 4 minutes. Even hardcore clubbers would get bored of listening to this and would vacate the dance floor.

I think that on the scale of the variation, it's spread over far too long, which works nicely, because if you cut down the length of the track, you're increasing the variation within the tune itself ;)

I notice that you put a natural break in there at about 3.5 minutes. Don't come back for a second half of the track, make a new track that carries on from there, by all means. Now we get a second half, which is discernibly different from the first half, so it sounds like you've tried to get a mix going. More individual tracks please and leave the mixing to the DJs.

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[n.83 (Demo)(WIP)]

Good driving beat

Not a bad tune, this one. I think that it' would certainly be a good rhythm for car shows, where people show off how smooth the ride is, for example. It's a very good tune for driving to.

I'd suggest more variation, as the bits that you've given us are great, but we need something more, just to stop the boredom early on.

[Review Request Club]

[MAC 2008 - Monster]

Slow and steady

I can almost feel the tears running down my cheeks with this one.

I can see this as the grief of someone who has lost a loved one and is standing at their graveside in the pouring rain, wishing that they had died in place of the loved one.

There are a few issues with your chord notes, at about 1.30 to 2.00, you really become aware of one of the chords being on the sharp side of things, which really doesn't sound good when it's on its own. When you add the other instruments, it blends in a lot better, so you don't really get a chance to notice it.

Sorting that out would be a great boon.

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Scribbler responds:

Nice imagery. I will listen to the notes you pointed out and fix the problems. Thank you.

[.:Sleepless Nights v2:.]

Enchanting

This song has a great deal going for it - you've given us a nice relaxing tune, despite the harsh sound of the low chord that you keep throwing in there for the beat every fourth note. I'd suggest having that as a held note, rather than such a sudden end of it.

Reminds me of part of Final Fantasy, where they go into the ice caves - with all the twinkling of the light off the perfect ice crystals. Sublime.

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GronmonSE responds:

You know, I hadn't thought about that (referring to the chords thing). I'll try it out and see how it turns out.

Thanks for the review :D

[Summer Days (N)]

Good sounds

I love the sound of the close harmony singing that you've got for the two voices - please tell me it's two different people, or it will make me less impressed. I like the way that you've composed the guitar for this piece, as it's a very mellow piece, for a heavy sounding bass on the guitar

Maybe you need to add some acoustic to it, if you're after a mellow sounding track. That always takes the edge off the bass, which otherwise you'd need to turn down, just a little, as it is quite a dominant sound in the track.

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[-Stormy Dream- |[Glou]|]

Weird, but good

Not a bad combination of the sounds in this one, you've given it a blissful sounding happiness about this tune, that brings a smile to even the most grizzled office worker.

The beat is good and the melody is, but I think that you could do more on the variation front, possibly throwing in a few curveballs, such as pauses in the beat, while the melody picks it up strongly.

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Gloudas responds:

K i'll take that into consideration, I guess I need to work on my melodies and whatnot to ensure variety. Thanks for the criticism and review

[The Pine Dexterity Attack]

Classical Graffiti

I like the way that this track seems to start off in the early classical sense, with a very nice sounding piece of drums, which puts me in the mind of classic sword and sandals epics, like Ben Hurr and Clash of the Titans. Then it accelerates quickly across time to a more modern piece. Suddenly, we have landed in some sort of club scene, where this same music has been brought right out of the Roman times into the present and has been dusted over.

I'd consider adding more of the drums back into it at a later date, as they worked particularly well.

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[Jxl180 - Run With It]

Not bad

I think that the bass is a little rough around the edges and you've got a conflict between parts of the tune, where the timings clash. Smooth out these rough edges and we've got a great little tune in the making.

I think that the ending was a powerful piece, but not really of the same type as the rest of the track, so that should be taken into a separate work and elaborated upon.

[Review Request Club]

jxl180 responds:

thank you for taking the time to review,
jxl180

[([ARiP2 Remix v2!])]

Quickfire

Such an unrelenting piece, where you can't stop to get your breath. I think the best addition to this track would be more pauses. The few that you've thrown in are good, but I think we need just a little more.

I'd also consider a slower part, as this one really is a furiously paced piece.

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[(FMC) -=Lost in a Trance=-]

Good Beat

I think that the rest of the song is just too uniformly random to me. You've come up with a great deal of different loops for this, but there's not really much change fromt hem until about 2 minutes into the track. I'd start adding the extra variation earlier, as it really does make a difference to the track later on.

Of course, a great way to add some variation is to throw a curveball of a different beat for a while, that gets people noticing different stuff.

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