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
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.
The bass-kick is very hip hop, so props on nailing down the spine for the genre. Yeah, I could see someone flowing to this, but I guess that's all it's really missing; the lyricist talent to fill out this segment. It's like a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle with a chunk missing.
...Using my imagination to fill in the gap, I surmise the beat is fine. I even enjoyed the creative license with the synth. The sampled robot voice though? I can't make heads or tails of what he's saying...at all. Not sure if that was intentional or not, but in my perspective it's a hiccup in the beat's momentum.
Additionally, if I were you, I would mix up that "clap" with other, similar sounding claps, or even a different sound effect altogether...as it becomes evident it's one sound file being played over and over again, it creates a sort of cheapening effect using nothing but repetition. This is really the only other thing I can criticize, though. Other than that and the garbled robot voice, this is a slick spine to any capable rapper's rhymes.
This sounds like something I would hear from one of the many internet radio stations that play the likes of trance, house, and techno. It sounds pro...perhaps I'm noticing a pattern that makes this kind of music formulaic. So in my own picky way, if I were to nit-pick this song, I would fault it for being exactly like those kind of songs...faulting it for pushing no boundaries or trying anything new...
...but that would be undermining the wave of crap I've heard on the audio portal throughout the years. If this sounds pro in my ears, than by all means thats nothing but praise. I could chill to this in the background while I'm working on something just as easily as I would with Andy Moor or DJ Tiesto. It's well balanced, nothing was too quiet or too, disproportionately loud. In fact I quite enjoyed it's chillness...where's my whiskey?
This earned a five and even a fav. It's evident you worked hard on this, great work, and thanks for exposing us to your work.
You know the expression "It's a face only a mother could love?"
...It's a good thing that at least YOU love this.
Like...sorry dude, but this isn't anything. This should've been something you kept stashed away in your Documents folder as a very rough, early draft of things that you arranged in FL Studio 9. This sure as hell ain't techno. You want us to jam out to this in our cars? Maybe while we're drawing or animating something, we get a 17 second interlude into obscurity? I can't vote highly on this. It's not appealing in the slightlest.
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
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
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.
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.
Beginning was awesome! Got my head bobbin' immediately from it's coolness.
But vocals are too quiet and so are some backing instruments, y'all need an audio engineer or something to bring everything up and balance it. That is it's primary flaw that keeps it from getting a 10.
But the bass at 2:27 was mighty funky, keeps the score high along with the intro and the decent everything else. I just dig the hell out of this...just wish some elements were so quiet. I gotta give it up to y'all for effort and GREAT musicianship, it's like I was among you at a live show. Voted 5!
Thanks for the critique, the next anything we do we will be paying closer attention to all of those aspects too. But thank you muchly for the compliments, glad we dont disappoint!
While it's categorized under Drum And Bass, you know that actual DnB music is more akin to techno, house and stuff, right? Yes, this indeed has drums and it DOES have bass, but the genre is misplaced wholly in my opinion.
There's ONE guitar riff in here...and it's only a few strums short of "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner. It comes in a little late, that drum and bass strum wears out its welcome about five seconds too long. Right when the guitar loop goes on for one measure, you INEXPLICABLY stop the drums and bass, only to restart it for a little bit, then stop the bass line, then...ugh...there's clearly a pattern to this, it's just not very good. It's not tastefully structured. You have the same three drum lines playing here and there, ONE bass line, ONE guitar line, and some lyrics, that just kinda start and stop here and there and everywhere.
It's rather irritating how all of these different elements are turning on and off, when as the song progresses, so should the actual SONG. It all comes off sounding very fragmented and very amateurish. There's no theme and it doesn't go anywhere but to remind us of how disjointed it is by restarting. It starts off sounding like it could be funky, but the guitar sounds very pop, maybe even country or light rock, so that's out...and the lyrics sound even poppier, MAYBE even techno worthy...the piano detracts from what ever theme it was initially headed for even more. This isn't a song, it's a clip, and it's having a rather severe identity crisis. It sounds half finished, and it's got no rhythm.
Consider this, it might not be it's best asset when the bulk of the author's comments are about it are "The beginning is a bit repetitive, listen to the end and tell me what you think." I can't vote highly on this, because it ain't jammable, and it was likely compiled in MTV music generator or the likes in an hour or two at most, so not a whole lot of sweat and passion went into this. What's redeemable about it?
Pretty solid, dude. I've listened to it on loop several times, and the synthetic symphony sounds mostly flawless. The only part that I think wasn't up to par with everything else was that weird, very obviously synth piano at 1:20-1:26...in my personal opinion, the...how do I put this... "Nerfness" of the notes just kinda throw off that part.
But everything else? Hell, I was impressed with how the guitars actually successfully illustrated the armored space bounty hunter as something more awesome and action-packed then the original VG music she once represented. Like I said, I really like how the symphony orchestra instruments turned out. Not once did the drums stand out as programmed, either. I'd say that was a huge mission accomplished in keeping the whole thing balanced.
I was never a die hard fan for Samus except for in Smash Brothers, so I didn't immediately identify the songs as exclusively a Nintendo-esque VG soundtrack. That broadens it's accessibility to flash animations and games alike of the sci-fi or action variety. I could easily see this integrated into a flash project on the front page, so get to shamelessly self promoting yourself, dude! :D This earned a five, it's evident you worked hard on it.
"Pretty solid, dude. I've listened to it on loop several times, and the synthetic symphony sounds mostly flawless."
That's thanks to East/West's brilliant samples. I've only got the Silver version which is like their cheapest product and I still have access to such amazing sounds.
"The only part that I think wasn't up to par with everything else was that weird, very obviously synth piano at 1:20-1:26...in my personal opinion, the...how do I put this... "Nerfness" of the notes just kinda throw off that part."
Hm... I don't exactly see what you mean. 1:20 is the same piano sound used from the whole song (taken from East/West too, and I tried varying the note velocities to make it sound real). It's a piano with some strings being played with it at the same time.
But hey, I'll look into it and see if anyone else thinks the same!
"But everything else? Hell, I was impressed with how the guitars actually successfully illustrated the armored space bounty hunter as something more awesome and action-packed then the original VG music she once represented."
That's awesome, glad you were impressed! The original music isn't exactly action-packed, but the melodies are generally excellent which is why I enjoyed remixing them.
"Like I said, I really like how the symphony orchestra instruments turned out. Not once did the drums stand out as programmed, either. I'd say that was a huge mission accomplished in keeping the whole thing balanced."
Dude, I'm SO GLAD you think the drums don't sound programmed, haha. I had that problem before in my other orchestral/rock song (the Chaoz Fantasy Orch/Rock Remix) and people did point it out, so I worked especially hard on making the drums sound more real here by varying the velocities, adding subtle changes and fills, and whatnot.
"I was never a die hard fan for Samus except for in Smash Brothers, so I didn't immediately identify the songs as exclusively a Nintendo-esque VG soundtrack."
I'm not a fan of Metroid either (I never played any of the games)... in fact I only caught a glimpse of Samus in Brawl (and even then I don't enjoy playing as her xD). It's thanks to a friend of mine that I began hearing Metroid songs/remixes, enjoying them and eventually making this remix.
"That broadens it's accessibility to flash animations and games alike of the sci-fi or action variety. I could easily see this integrated into a flash project on the front page, so get to shamelessly self promoting yourself, dude! :D"
I'll be right on it! :D
"This earned a five, it's evident you worked hard on it."
I sure did. Thanks a lot for the review and the 5, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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