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[Example I - Dream]

8-bit goes Medevil :P

A nice, quiet loop here. I'm not entirely sure of the exact connotations of a track like this, as it really doesn't wander enough for a dream for my liking. I'd have included a few variations on the theme, as when you start to dream, you mind wanders about until it reaches a comfort zone, so symbolise the thought processes that get you there.

It loops well, but the ending does need to be pepped up a little, as it does tend to give the game away here. If you keep it roughly all the same, you get a better loop, but this does harm the track where I see chance for the variations to kick in. It's a fine line, I know.

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Adam-Beilgard responds:

I'm thinking I should change the name now to Example I - Medieval after reading all of these reviews! You're right, not much variation in 57 seconds (monothematic), this was just an idea I was batting around and I put up to entice someone to commision a work.

Anyway, thanks for the review!

[Improvisation Number One]

Weird

I don't know what it is about this tune, but it sounds very creepy to me. I feel that it's probably down to it being a track of not much backing, but quite a bit of improvised Sax playing.

I think that with the addition of maybe some soft percussion, it would be better for the piece, to prevent it being such an alternative and creepy tune.

[Review Request Club]

Adam-Beilgard responds:

Creepy is bad in this case. I didn't mean for it to be creepy. As I've told others this is a western adaptation of Togaku. I tried to stay as close as I know how to the character of this genre, hence the choices I made. I can't add anything else without making it something else so hopefully another listen might inspire some new impressions. That's all I can think of.

But thank you for reviewing!

[Whales, Whales, Whales]

Why Whales?

A very nice tune that I think is nice to listen to in the background of whatever you care to be doing. It's busy, but not in an overly distracting way and it has some nice variation in, to keep it from being monotonous.

The other tool of variation that you've used nicely is the different instruments and even tempos that you've used. It brings a whole new level of performance to the tune, as some parts are playing slower, but blending in just a nice with the rest.

I'd have had a part in the middle, where you fade out the main melody and had just the backing beat, for example, as you did it the other way around and that workied nicely. Maybe a minute later, you just stop the melody and the counter melody and leave us with the beat. Everyone needs a solo ;)

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MusicIsBliss responds:

thanks for the awesome reveiw.
first off, have you ever played bubble bobble. There are these whales that fly around, this idea then mixed with the falling whale from hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. Now the idea turned into whales flying around the air, shooting machine guns and missles like a WWII dogfight, and that is what this song made me randomly think about at some point.

I usually try to make my songs not repeditive, but i usually have the issue of not being able to go from a verse to a chorus and so forth, i dont know why, but it is my biggest music problem, I also never change tempo and rarely change key, i really need to work on this. A soft part would have probably been a good idea, but i was pretty power hungry when I made this song, there are about 4 muli-band compressers, 7 regular compessors and limiters, and rediculous amounts of EQ sidechaining. ever since guitar hero In have wanted to make a guitar solo and a drum solo, but lack the skills to write one.

[Experimental - Drowning]

Really quiet beginning

Makes me wonder what it is that's lurjking down there in the depths, where there is no light and all sorts of unimaginable creatures lurking...

While the start is quite quiet and slow, it builds up rapidly into something more reminiscent of a horror movie than some sort of natural history project. A shame you couldn't really settle on one theme or the other, really.

A nice piece overall, but I'd have appreciated the start being a little louder.

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[Carbon Baby (part 1)]

Quiet build up

This tune works it way nicely into the feeling that there is something bigger underneath it all, wating to get out. I'm looking forward to the final piece, as it sounds like it's going to be something groundbreaking and awe inspiring.

I think that the soft sound of the drums in the background really made this tune, as they give an uplift to the melody and made a real difference to the entire tune.

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WritersBlock responds:

Thanks! The drums are going to be much more in your face in the main part of the song, so I hope that it doesn't sound awkward coming off from the intro.
Cheers.

[Extradimensional]

Different

I think that the pacing of this track was the defining part until the whole track started to sound a little messy around the 1m30 mark. There's just too much trying to happen in a small section of the track. In short, it gets very crowded.

I think that you've got the ability to take this significantly further, by maybe slowing it down a little and spreading the variations out a little. I love the effect of the main sound moving around the listener, as it works fantastically - it's a different sounding part of the track, that plays nicely.

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MadCow responds:

the making of this was very experimental. im somewhat satisfied with the outcome. i've been making a bunch of songs that i havent finished yet that are prolly better.

Thanks for the review

[Electromagnetic Goldfish]

Goldifish in helocopter?

The pace of this track seems to indicate that the goldfish that you refer to in the title is either catching a ride in a helocopter or he's swimming unwittingly around a liquidiser jug, before having the switch flicked by the masochistic kid.

Quite an interesting piece, that builds up to a nice crescendo at the end. Does this mean that the goldfish won against the ballad of whirling death that the kid had is store for him?

[Review Request Club]

MadCow responds:

its up to the listener to interpret what the songs about. people probably come up with better explanations that what i was thinking when i made it lmao

Thanks for the review

[x5470]

Good beat

However, when you came to add some sort of strings or keyboards over the top, it started to go a little away, as the bass beat was just too strong for it to be carried off. Maybe phase the bass down a little, as it sounds a little static ridden and then give more power to the feature instrument.

It's a great beat that the tune has - I wouldn't change the tempo or anything other than that slight static issue, but I would say that you need to consider some more variation, as I couldn't cope with listening to this wall-to-wall. It would make me mad, or even more so.

[Review Request Club]

MadCow responds:

i wanted to make a really beat-driven song. the sound is mostly intentional.

Thanks for the review

[Way Ward One]

El Techno Espanyol

To be honest, I'm not really a fan of these two types of music that you've mixed together here - I don't think it sounds entirely right with them playing alongside each other.

For a 7 minute track, I was expecting a lot of variation, but for the first 2.5 minutes, we got a loop of maybe 10-15s or music before any change happened. Then when it did, I think that went on for too long, before changing to something else.

At least the editing of the track is clean cut and well mixed in. Style and technique are still giving you marks, which bode well for future productions. More variations are needed in things this long, but the real art is not detracting from the main sound that you were after in the first place without sounding boring, which sadly this became.

It loops well, but that shouldn't really be an issue with a track this long.

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