Score: 10

"Super job"

submission: I like Bacon

date: July 1, 2008

This rocked. the only way it could be better is if it were wrapped in bacon!

I really like what you did at the end there - so many people always try so hard but they forget that sometimes the most effective way is to just let the musical ideas flow.

I gotta go talk to A-Bot cuz' I want to see this on the front page.

Keep this up!

Score: 10

"All sorts of nice stuff here."

submission: {PBJ}Chapter One{PBJ}

date: June 10, 2008

Nice job on this - laid back, chilled out and catchy. I see a few peeps have mentioned vox - they may be right - vocals could take this track from a damn fine piece of bg music to a radio hit. Then again if the vocal suck they could sink it.

Something to be said for simplicity I guess. This is really easy to listen to.

Do this again, then again, and fame will be yours!

-=5/5=-

Score: 9

"Always love listening to your work"

submission: apeman

date: February 3, 2008

Great job - nice bit of chill. Left one point for improvement though - Not sure what helpful advice I could give right now but a little more variation on the drums after about the first minute couldn't hurt. Just a bit though - I don't think you need to go overboard with anything crazy... maybe just change up every fourth bar a bit more. At this point, the following suggestion is almost cliché but perhaps a few triplet stutters here and there might be cool. Overused? yeah probably - but I still think they're cool just the same.

Two other things you may want to try - the bass from about 1:40 to the end is great as is but a slow morph from 1:40 to 3:10 could give it more of a sense of evolution - same with the synth that we hear from 2:40 through the end - try morphing the cut and/or res a bit and see what happens.

Play with the drone that starts in at 1:47 - a little gate action could add some interest - or perhaps one better - run this bitch through a sequenced gated multiband compressor or some other such rythmic choppity toy.

Aside from that, the only other thing that I can think of that would make this better would be to rename the track "LJCoffee is my hero" :D

Thanks for making my life a little more interesting with your music!

Score: 0

"Not Drum and Bass - Also, copyright infringement"

submission: Furious Fists

date: December 16, 2007

No score or vote assigned. This is definitely not Drum and Bass. You're lucky you didn't catch an instant audio ban for the clip of "Countin' Flowers On The Wall" at the end.

I suggest that you immediately remove this submission - or at the very least, edit it to remove the section at the end. If you don't, you not only risk getting this track deleted but if word gets back to Wade about it you could have your entire account deleted as well...

Score: 10

"0'n/e O:f t=He bes^T tAke+S 1've hE`ARd!!"

submission: Rucklo - Chiptune Jingle Bells

date: December 11, 2007

Seriously - this is EXACTLY the type of thing that I had in mind when I posted the MAC.

Work in progress or not - this was so much more than a generic midi rip. This is almost too good to enter. I'm not even kidding - if you entered the MAC with this you'd almost be a shoe-in to win and I don't want to listen to people crying about favoritism or rigged contests! heh...

Awesome job Ruck! this was completely bad-ass!

!-=5/5=-!

Score: 10

"Loved it - much respect!"

submission: Heroe Worship

date: December 10, 2007

Solid work as usual. I don't think you went overboard with the vocals at all.

Great job - all of it gels very nicely and that's not easy considering how many different sonds you were working with.

Of course, I have a fondness for patches with an LFO on the pitch. It always sounds so sick.

Mix is not bad at all - left as is, it has a damn nice feel to it - but I also think that punching up the vocals a bit more might make for a more "radio friendly" mix.

I gotta tell you :Ped, you're probably my favorite artist lately and it's exactly this kind of shit that keeps you on solid ground in that area.

..!-=5/5=-!..

Score: 10

"Have I told you lately, that..."

submission: Mega Man X2 - Flame Stag Stage

date: November 26, 2007

you are the SHIT!

Awesome job on it. Made me hard.
-=5/5=-

fx were a bit punchy though - a little more subdued might be a little better.

I'mma PM you wit sum moar dee-tails.

Score: 10

"Chilled the feck out"

submission: 65% incomplete repost

date: November 25, 2007

Nice and laid back - I'm really diggin the sax that you've been using in a few of your tracks. It's got a great feel to it. I also really like the changeup and bitcrushing at 4:00 - the vox are cool as well. Nice job -=5/5=-

Finish it!

Score: 10

"Quirky!"

submission: [DAC] - Theme for Suzie

date: November 1, 2007

Great job - very odd little track.

Score: 8

"Promising"

submission: DisruptoFlow

date: September 22, 2007

A really promising piece.

The percussion was decent - I really liked the sudden halt at about 0:24 - from that, I expected more to come but it never really did. Perhaps you could add more stutters and stops here and there.

- it does have a few minor problems though, overall it's a bit wooly - it sounds like a little eq work is in order - put a low cut filter on it to clean up the low end and boost the mid and high frequencies a bit.

The whining drone in the background is nice but it almost felt as if were struggling to break the surface but was never fully realized. It feels really subdued as it is. Perhaps you could extend things a bit and introduce either another synth or a variation of what's already there at about 1:08 and get that drone to cut through the mix a little more. this could help things gel up a bit...

You also have an export problem - there's about 40 seconds of silence at the end of the piece and unfortunately, this tells people that you didn't listen to the entire exported track a few times before uplaoding it - not a huge deal but it does look sort of like a noobish mistake.

Nice work overall and It looks like things are coming along nicely - I like the overall feel of the piece and aside from the few little issues it's a pretty solid track with a nice ambience.

As is, I'm voting 4/5 - fix it up a little - polish it here and there and it'll get teh 5's!!