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[RAZING ARIZONA(pt1)[v1]]

Fairly bizarre

I've always been a fan of the warped up and the unexpected - not a bad track here - The only part that I felt needed a little extra attention was the percussion - the actual beat is fine, if a bit relentless, I think you could have gotten better results if you used different samples or timbres and mixed up the beats a little more.

It's certainly an unusual track. More people should take a step away from conventions and push boundaries a little. No progress is made by staying in safe areas. No new ground is covered if we stay on the well travelled roads.

Keep doing your thing -

MrWAD2 responds:

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[A Technical Thing]

Not bad..

First off - ignore just about everything that I'm about to say as I'm not into techno so really just about everything here is nonsense...

With the disclaimer out of the way:

Patterns may be different but not enough perhaps... I was expecting something more along the lines of a techno - breakcore thing never repeating a percussive bar - either way though it's not bad. It was missing something though - not sure what but it seemed like it could use a little fattening up - maybe a big-ass pad or two would thicken it a bit.

Honestly, I would have given a 4 but it looks as if you've already been 0'd >:( so I'm 5'ing it to try to help out a bit.

Not a bad track at all - just not my style.

I know - I know, worthless review... Oh well :)

Later!

IamMark responds:

That's not worthless Coffee. Hell I have quite a few of your tracks in my playlist. So getting a review from you is pretty sweet.

I went through quite a few different pads, but they all kind of ruined the song. They seemed to take over which is not what I wanted them to do. Kind of like putting pickles in your burger, they make the whole damned thing taste like pickles.

[Exactly]

Wheeeee, gleeeee

She told me her favorite color was clear and shiny.

Clubby, happy, dancy, trancy, catchy little feel-good tune buzzing right along.

As I'm sure I've said before, I'm not a great judge of trance as I listen to so very little of it - but all in all a nice little track - worth at least a 2... Maybe a 3 ... Aww hell, I'll give ya teh 5!

Syntrus responds:

Thx coffee man

[Beep Leap]

I imagine we'd get along...

Similar in many ways to the nonsense that I upload :D

Not sure about the hyperdub delay but it seems to work out well enough.

Odd piece of music - which I'm usually into.

Only thing I would suggest changing would be to lose the delay on the percussion after the intro - Once it comes back in you should grime it up in a different way - other than that it was a decent track. Since you're new and all I'll go ahead and 5 the track :)

See you around NG...

[taxafin]

Loved it.

I just assigned a smattering of 9's and 10's - You'll get a 5 as well.

I'm diggin it though - really liked the mash - percussion was dan fine - Also diggin the diggin the diggin the repeats and the little little twists here an' there.

Sax is always nice - good blend of stuff. I'm also liking the unexpected melodies - great stuff.

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

cheers ler,
think i'm gonna work on this a bit more, get it sounding slick. also picking out more notes on the sax as the days go by so it'll definately be a recuring thang.
go go
;ped

[Glib - Brochet]

Perfect scores 10/5

I'm sure that you knew I would like this one - and I do.

There is something very appealing about taking more traditional instruments and mashing them up against digital screwage.

The bendification on some of the early plucky bits was simply twitterific.

Then there's the introduction of a downtempo version of a standard marchy techno 2 step that just begs to be blistered up a bit and I'm happy to say that the beats became exactly what I was hoping they would.

This is a damn nice track!

Glib responds:

Thank you. If I get a purrfect score from good ol LJ I know that I'm doing good. :)

Thank you. I didn't want to do anything CRAZY glitchy because it would destroy the electroacousticity of the track. :)

Thank you,

Thomas

[my first fruity loop:)]

Somewhere in the middle

Not too bad - not my favorite though. I'll still give it the 5. Timbres were all decent, drums weren't bad - I can't really put my finger on it but there was something about it that I wasn't crazy about. Very short but that's no big deal really. Sorry I couldn't give you more info...

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

same here, thats why i finished it there, wasn't really mad about it. i've got serious problems at the minute, keep starting all these tunes that are ok but not great so i get bored, can't finish anything, is really starting to grind my gears.
never mind
;ped

[gwai]

The last of it?

But I love the half-arsed shit. This was a cool track - got nothin bad to say about it. The home-grown samples mix well with the instrumentation. Was that a little effected beatboxing in there by any chance? Sounded a bit like it. Great stuff - keepin it at 5.

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

yo,
like i've said b4 about this and my last couple, nothing really wrong with it, it just doesn't tweak my nips like it should

[Mental House]

Some issues with levels

Again, like the Cillit Bang! track - the vox samples are messing this up. There seems to be a very disturbed flow - you start with a straight 4x4 kick which is a bit poppy - but then it's just dropped and replaced with an effected loop that sounds out of place - there should be a better transition - the same thing happend again with the next beat that comes in - there doesn't seem to be enough to connect the dots.

Your levels are off a bit - some things are too loud and other elements are pushed back too far into the mix.

Overall this is a solid 3 - too many little problems and not enough redeeming qualities to offset the negative aspects.

BritZombie responds:

Thanks, like i've said i don't have very advanced equipment so mastering and such is very hard.

I'm just experimenting with different things im not a big audio buff.

As an example when you said a solid 3, at first i thought I wonder why he gave me a 6........

[*Cillit Bang! Remix*]

Hmmm....

I think it would be decent if you lost the vocals. The whole Cillit Bang! thing is campy and quirky but it doesn't add as much as it could. In fact, I think it does just the opposite - the Cillit vox are taking away from a potentially decent track.

The Techno people probably wouldn't appreciate the humor of the remix so you'll lose points there. If you want to appeal to the techno crowd then my advice, as horribly trite as it may be, is to pull the vox and replace them with the obligatory female ooooh's and aaaah's along with the "cheering crowd" samples that are apparently a requirement for a lot of techno tracks.

The rest is coming along nicely though - good start on the music and it could potentially turn into something very catchy and cool.

Needs a little work but as you said, it is only a WIP.

In it's current state It's not worth a 5 - honeslty, I would think more around the 3-4 range... I'll round up and go with the 4.

BritZombie responds:

Cheers but ill never lower my self too female oohing and aahing unless its neccessary.

Whats a WIP?

Thanks 4 reveiw