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Nice! And first review!

Love the eastern sound, original use of scales, but maybe be a less timid with electronics. You went for quite a modest sounding set of synths, but I think with a sound like this the way to rack up the star quality may have been to at least occasional bring in some massive pads to riff away above maybe an occasionally doubled up beat. Not much, I mean its entirely subjective and pretty basic, and I did like the sound, I just think it couldve done with some more guts! Still, pretty damn cool.

9/5.
Love & peace.
AKACCMIOF.

NuclearStrike responds:

I make these songs in between my 'Big ............ FATMAN' releases. so these are pretty chill. You can only be Big and Bad so much before it's obnoxious. Anyways, Love, Peace, and Big Beat. FATMAN out.

SICK BRO!

Nice! Although I would be interested if you wouldnt mind sending me the vox file dude! How did you glitch it btw? Just interested in the awesome production!

EchozAurora responds:

dBlue Glitch and a shit ton of automation. Mostly.

I zoomed in real close on the playlist editor and just fucked around with it til I got what I wanted more or less. =P

Thanks for the review!

Good luck man!

I'm entering too and it looks like you got us by the short ones! If this wasn't so cool, youd be an asshole!

Where was I? Oh yeah, whats that word: REVIEW!

Loved the way were able to alter tempo part to part and alter dynamics pretty perfectly. This is no light compliment BTW: Tempo change is all in the delicacy and most people only really know two dynamics: RnB ballad and Mozart! The breaking of the chords was an expert touch too, very subtle! This was expertly developed and for performance it must be said you NAILED it!

Composition wise it was beautiful but towards the end I found myself listening for the performance not the song. Which is cool, but maybe holding you back a little from reaching the really high corners of the genre. Maybe more development of the motifs over more complex basslines towards the ends: What the hell, go virtusoso!

Well needless to say that REALLY doesnt constitute a tenth of the mark so I'll give you a ten man!

You deserve it!

Love & peace.
AKACCMIOF.

Nekoprism responds:

Thx a lot! I'll be checking your stuff too... Sorry if it took so long to answer... I was out of it all for a while.

Nice!

Fits teh purpose! Probably build on it more- more layers. Great potential.

Catstuffer responds:

Thanks, I wanted to keep it simple to keep the ambient feel. Thanks for you thoughts!

Yes! And your back up to 4.42!

And you deserve it! Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!
5&10!
Love&peace!

Kazmo responds:

I wish there were more people like you on NG...

Dude...

Maybe spend some more time mixing the levels (everything cept drums down a lil), try altering the clapping (add reverb fade in etc.), try developing the melody to something more catchy (you use it once, I fucking well can!) like restraining it more to m3s, m7s, 5s, 1s, or whatever. Maybe lead with one of the later melodies.

DjXeon responds:

Cheers again for the review!
All help taken into account, thaanks!
Xeon

It was OK...

But, somethings really needed redoing in my opinion man. The use of the filter was cool, and sure it had a nice lil melody, but there was like zero development throughout the song. You through in all your best cards right at the beginning. Sure you died down to the pad halfway, but live i don't think that would really cut any mustard man. Mainly because musically peaking you stuck with the same octave being played at the heart of the piece throughout. For this reason I call it samey, not because there is repetition of a motif, or because there is a repeated melody or synth but because the way this song operates tries to keep every part incredibly smooth. How manyy times have you heard a dj throw in a break, a cut down, a filter to just bass or drums? It is this which in my opinion seperates the boys from the men, the bravery to leave space in the words of Jim Mullen.

A lot of the stuff you quite evidently spent hours over sounded cool, but seriously, you have to give peoples ears a surprise or they just wont remember you, they'll vote high, get picked up then just leave forgetting the song, live people wouldn't wanna scream, they might just stick to the walls to be honest. Still, if I'm gonna vote you down I'll tell you what might of made this completely awesome, as it quite clearly has all the structure and melodic potential.

1) Maybe play the first few notes of the melody over on their own at the beginning.

2) Try sampling hooks into breaks. You can search loop libraries for vocal samples, just little lines like Shirobon's trademark "WE LIK BRK", or the infamous "ALL UR BASE R BELONG 2 US". This could just give people something to get yelling.

3) Around 1:34 try just whacking up a sequence of root notes on the bass and hits on the bass drum, mess with the filters a little, just mess with it.

4) Maybe around 2:04 just cut to the last notes of the melodic line on a treble cut.

This would get you a ten for me, but whatever you wanna do.

6&3.
Love & peace.
AKACCMIOF

DjXeon responds:

Finally! A review!
Thanks so much for the effort to write this!
Its points and tips like this that help to make songs brilliant. I mean, like when you listen to your own song, its hard to find areas of criticism, cause like whatever you make - to you it sounds good right?
So thank you for the advice!
I will do some more work to this and let you know once its been edited.
As ive said, this is an old song, and the editing done was better EQing.
Thanks you a million for the advice and review - I really appreciate it!

When/If i redo this i will give you a shout and let you know!
Once again, thank you :D

Not half bad!

I like the way it worked the melody on one beat and the root notes on the other, you could probably only get away with it on one song, but either way I did like it man! I couldn't last the length of it without it getting on my nerves though, so it didnt really get more than a seven for me.

7&4
Love and peace!

Dj-Rippa responds:

Thank you for the great review :)
glad you liked it!
this is one of the fist songs I myself cant stop listening to :)

NINJA SKILLZ!

It must be said, that this kicks very large ass. Very large. Like Oprah. Sure, its a little in your face, but wtf, its immense. How did you get the synths?

HyruleanHyroe responds:

They were all default sounds from FL Studio 7. I actually wish I could find some that fit better :/ But I'm glad you liked! And trust me, Oprah's gonna be sore for weeks.

Dude! Many lolz!

Here is the now famous thread.
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/9 92391

Rig responds:

I DID put a link in the comments, but whatever.

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