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[Timelapse (WIP)]

I'm about to have a timelapse right NAO

I was about to get into it preparing to be soothed like the guy below me had worded, but when the ringtone of Powerpuff Death sliced through my eardrums at a mere 0:29 seconds in, I found it difficult to concentrate.

This isn't trance, it's just flamboyantly effeminate in the opening bit, and it does so at a frequency most appealing with, what I'm assuming to be, a younger audience...this is far too irritating and repetitive in my opinion. Like that backing, "1-2-3-4-5, repeat" bass line....boring.

The bass line DOES get interesting a few seconds before the 3 minute mark, but when the synths kick back in full-blown at 3:41, you can practically see the contrailing hearts and starts fly out of an animation, and we dive back into the goofy parts of the song.

It finally starts sounding jammable around 4:55...but lordy was it a treacherous, bright and colorful road to get here. Then that ending "bass fuckin' around" riff was just whack.

The tiny sliver of fun that I found in this song was completely drowned out by the heaps of the unappealing aspects of this song. Some parts were too shrill, or too goofy for my tastes. It ain't Trance exactly, because nothing about it is calming...well, except for that neat bit at 4:50 which was WAAYYYYY too short. Most everything else, save for the bassline at 3:00 was like My Little Pony on acid. Don't ask me how I'd know that...

Voted 3/5.

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ochrence responds:

Thank you for the review - I was hoping you guys would get around to it sometime. Sorry you didn't like it all that much though. Guess I was just trying to make a song in a major key, because just about none of my songs are in a major key, and it didn't really work.
The Trance genre didn't really pertain to it very much. It was meant to be kind of goofy, though - mind you, definitely not soothing or "flamboyantly effeminate" - but goofy. That's why I used pitch bend throughout instead of an actual set of new patterns. It was pretty experimental and I was actually expecting that everyone would hate it.
I'm glad you liked the 3:00 bass. I thought the 3:41 synth sounded kind of interesting, though...
The shrillness of this song and definitely that "bass fuckin' around" end riff that you described could be fixed very easily; however, the heart of the song cannot. If I abandoned pitch bend entirely and switched the bass pattern up sometimes, and changed the 3:41 synth as well as numerous synths in the beginning with appropriately serious-sounding ones, could it ever be good? In other words, are the patterns or the voices what is "flamboyantly effeminate"? PM me with the answer, if you get the time.
Otherwise, I'll just discard it. It's too faulted if that is true.
Great review, by the way, and absolutely up to the high standards of the Review Request Club. Thanks!
-ochrence

[<<Replicants>>]

Finest Dubstep I've heard on the Audio Portal.

The whole song is really fucking cool. It started reeling me into thinking this is going to be exactly like every video game song on the Audio Portal. The slow beat at 0:48 discarded that fear immediately as I started to get into it. But when the DUBSTEP kicked in at 1:02, I had to crank it up for full effect.

What I love about it, is it isn't your typical BWA-WUB WUB WRIGGLY that you hear in every dubstep song. This shit sounds FRESH and creative. More importantly, it sounds DAMN good. The song came around for a second helping of 2:18 and I had already decided I'm faving the song.

The complex little tanget at 2:53 was like the icing and cherry atop the cake for me. Easily my favorite part, and I'm glad you kept it for last. We need more talented demonstrations of talent and depth like that in dubstep, I think. But all in all, I just straight up love this song...changed the game for me in what I've heard in dubstep so far. Five and faved...can't wait to identify this in a flash game or movie.

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BulimicLemur responds:

Wow, flattering. Hahaha, glad you liked it. Yeah I get tired of typical dubstep sounds, some people are honestly happy making that BWA-WUB WUB WRIGGLY all the time, but it's already been done about 8742987 times over and uploaded onto the audio portal with the crappy video-game sounds and the bass turned up too loud and everything just sounds shit and urggh . . .

Anyway, have a listen to blood red by feed me, that's the sort of style I'm going for, and it's like what you describe- have a listen broo. Anyway, good to hear some appreciation. Cheers man!!
BL

[realguitaring WIP "Good as..."]

Hell, it's a start, and there's no shame in that.

In order to get better at any task, you gotta Research, Research, Research, and Practice, Practice, Practice. Keep it up, and be sure to challenge yourself...how else will you grow and develop? Them callouses on your fingers ain't gonna form themselves!

From what I hear in this submission, it's like a prototype song. Needs a LOT of refining and cleaning up...but it takes balls to show off your early rough drafts, and let people know where your skill level is at THIS point in time. It will serve as a frame of reference to how far you've come when you look back on this in the future...that's exactly why I have my very first flash submission uploaded. It will leave you stoked when you see how far you've grown from here.

Keep it up. The world belongs to those who show up.

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UltimateCJ64 responds:

Thanks dude! I've been practicing for the past couple weeks, slowly working my way up. So far, I've gotten powerchords and strumming down (to an extent). As soon as I got that down pat, I'm gonna start working on lead.

Yeah, this song (or this version of it) is in its early stages. I've refined it a bit since, more organized, more in time. Got drums sequenced out, and I'm working with Firefreezer to get a good lead and other instrumental ideas in there. and so far, it makes this look extremely noobish, although it already was.

I probably will look back at this when I'm a lot better and think "I was this bad?" even though it wasn't too bad for a beginner. Gotta start somewhere though.

Thanks for the review, dude!

[Project Malu & Kaumaha]

Illustrates a story through the music.

The bulk of this review could be all the shit I could see this being the soundtrack of. The big one being a samurai, but I digress.

I'm detecting a lot of influence from Enigma/Enya...but only because of how supernaturally calming it is. It's so good at what it does, that I don't even raise an eyebrow that at 3:45, that exciting new tone and tempo was powered down into the initial theme...as enticing as it would be for some Dream Theater-like tanget of a guitar solo to erupt out of nowhere... This song just contains overall wonderful musicianship...this NEEDS more exposure.

Fived and Faved. You're fantastic at what you do.

Rinileki14 responds:

Thank you!!! XD I really appreciate that critique.

[Adjeye-3 ~ Sentivicated.]

Nothing to criticize.

I have nothing to criticize. Get a singer maybe, but this song holds it's own without it. Vocals could be something to incorporate into future Progressive Trance tracks, perhaps.

What did I particularly like out of the track? If I had to choose ONE element, is that it consistently shifted, changed, and evolved....you held true to the term "progression" without sacrificing the overall theme of the song. The only fault I can claim is that it's too damn short...anything short of an album of songs like these but all unique from you won't be enough.

Well done. Perfect 10 and Flawless 5 from me. I'm really pleased the requests we've been getting at the RRC have been some pretty kickass songs.

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Adjeye responds:

Didn't expect that review :P but thanks a lot :P, I made another song in the same style, its called: Forlorn child, probably you will like that one too :P.

[Riddickulous (WIP)]

Fuck yea.

First impression listening to this took me on a journey.
0:00-0:10 : "Okay...sounds broken."
0:11-0:12: (DON'T BE RIDICULOUS.) "...wha?"
0:13-0:23: (head progressively begins to head bang with it.) me going >:C "yeah."
0:24-and onward had me ensnared, already decided I liked it a lot. Punch dancing violently while going >:O

I'm usually pretty picky about what trance, techno, house, dubstep I listen to, and can easily be annoyed by little nuances...but there's some strange guilty pleasure with.....whatever kind of genre this is.... it's dirty, and slutty, and raw, and I fucking like it. It's like the Strapping Young Lad of the club. Voted 5.

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Dj-GST responds:

Thanks bro!

I'm not sure exactly what genre this is, it sounds like it's in between Gabber and Hardcore.

Glad you liked it man!

3S

[-*CaSH*- Gettin' It]

Easy, fuzzy-little man peach.

Groovy and psychedelic. I enjoy the music, but the drums are cracker thin...they're almost absent, That makes the experience a little disappointing, actually...without the proper percussions, solidifying the BONES behind the bass guitar and...keyboard's(?) flesh, it's all incredibly mushy, and slithers in one ear before dripping out the other. Nothing is fucking me in the ear and taking me on a journey; it's just kinda sloshing around in there mildly suggesting I get high.

The musicianship, even if it was improvised as you went, is too funky to ignore. But the lack of solidifying percussions or anything else to keep these three instruments from dominating kept it from getting a 10 from me. I'm still voting five. You keep up your passion DESPITE the hardships you're going through, man...the world belongs to those who show up.

Oh, and edit your author's comments; the version that's edited out the silence in the end is the version I listened to as I wrote this. Audio Portal came through for ya :D

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camoshark responds:

Thanks for the review, mate, very much appreciated!

You're absolutey right, now that I take a bit of distance, the drums, ARE, in fact, practically inaudible... I guess my lack of experience in mixing really is to blame here, I mostly concentrate on the composition rather than the sequencing, and basically everything else, anyways.

Of course the phasing is intentional, though it could probably use some tweaking, I'll look into that!

Also thaks for the kind words, I'm still posting here because I believe you guys deserve it, and words like that rest my case.

Thanks once again, reviews are ALWAYS welcomed!

Cheers,
Samuel Hébert

[silly experiment]

It's all over the place.

Some parts get real quiet, some parts get all loud, it's got no solitary theme...it's not so much "Death By Gameboy" as it is the sound of a Gameboy in the throes of an agonizing death.

0:00 - 0:44 it sounds awesome, dramatic even. Has the real makings of a pretty fuckin' cool digital song...after the :45 second mark? Shit gets incoherently crazy and all over the place...this isn't danceable, this isn't jammable, it quickly becomes clear that it was probably an experiment.

I would be more invested to voting high in a song that came of the foundation established in the first forty four seconds...not this random mess that it became. I've heard plenty of dubstep in my time...while there's definitely territory to expand upon in creative license with the genre, I just didn't dig this "Glitchstep" if you will. So I'm afraid I can't vote high on it...I loved the fuck out of Game Boy, so it's not like I'm biased in that field, this song just hooks us in, and discards it when it becomes inaccessible close to the minute mark. There's some cool moments hidden in there, definitely, but there's too many bad to drown out the good. That puts your score right in the middle for me, dude.

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SuperBastard responds:

I really appreciate the honest review! I'm really kind of feeling the same way about the craziness, and I suppose you're right that it was more of an experiment than anything else. This is what happens when I work on something for a few minutes a day over the course of a couple days as opposed to in one sitting. I think from now on I'll try to avoid doing that as much as possible.

[HT || Not So Suspenseful]

Nice.

Very cool, very chill. I think you're really onto something cool here, I just wish the ride didn't end so quickly...but it's very easy to get into what little we can hear.

No shit, at 1:28, I began snapping a rhythm that perfectly matched the kick drums that came in a few seconds later. I was made stoked that your song had that kind of accessibility where the listener could pick right up on it.

I only have two complaints. My first? That sound...riff?...that comes in at 2:01 is alright AT FIRST, but gets very annoying very quickly. It's too shrill...it sounds like an autotuned sampling of Miss Piggy screaming, and it overstays its welcome after only two or three measures. It needs to become something not as annoying, and something more cool and flowing like how it began. But that sound hurt it's score from my perspective.

My second complaint? The entire song is about three or four minutes too short. It needs to be longer sir! Give us more! Have this song take us on a journey! It's "Not So Suspensful" don't make it "Not So Climactic" too :P

HyperTrough responds:

Lol. Thank you so much for your very thoughtful review. :)

I think I'm going to start making a few more house tracks. I really like getting creative with chord progressions, but finding good sustained samples and presets is hardest part. Making your own is simple enough, but they never turn out "good". :/ hahaha FMLLLL

Once again, thanks for your thoughts x)

[Spirit Wolf - Daydream (Remix)]

Well, first impression of UK Hardcore here...

And, well, it's certainly...electronic music. But the middle chunk was too irritating to enjoy. 1:14 - 2:17 was annoying as hell...that's over a minute of shrill computer shrieking. Everything else was fine except for that stuff. Gotta love passion enough in the genre to like a particular song enough to remix, but why not try something more complex in the future?

Something that's not assaulting with a repetitive high frequency that's the digital equivalent of Snarf from the Thundercats? Try again, sir, but I particularly didn't like this for the high pitched shrillness...the part after it, 2:18 and on, isn't bad, but it isn't particularly awesome either...are we supposed to dance to this, or shoot My Little Pony's out of the sky? It's a little too soft, in my opinion, and repeats itself for too long, with little changing up.

Go for complexity next time, sir! Now that school is behind you, you'll have the opportunity to buckle down and stomp something spectacular out.

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steven-mcl responds:

Thanks for your review.

As far as complexity goes, certain people like it, certain people don't, and if something becomes too complex, then it sounds like too many things are going on in the song and overwhelms the listener. I'm a person of simplicity but subtle complexity. In general I don't want to make a really complex and "artistic" song more I'd rather make something that people enjoy to listen to and gets them to dance. UK Hardcore has higherpitched synths like the typical Eurotrance which I like. Though you seem to be one who's into more calm and "mature" kinda music tastes when it comes to electronic music and I'm cool with that. Thanks for your review though, I'm going to take that into consideration when creating my next song. Should be out some time this weekend, hopefully.