by

Grisha MC_Digital
(MC_Digital)

Nice overall sound, but it gets quite repetetive at the end. You made good attempts a breaking it up with different styles, but it allways returned to the same old thing. Good use of cacophany and dissonance in the arpeggiated lines, many people might not like it, but it adds alot of flavor to me. One thing to think about might be changing your bassline and adding some sort of progression. Otherwise, quite good.

The sound and the expression is really great, solid and consistent. Original and with a good overall finish. The composition and samples go very well with the sound and the style of the song. Excellent samples, by the way. Around pattern 34-37 panning is a bit too extreme. The song is repetitive, but, again, that does not hurt since it fits with the "concept". I'll keep this one.

The song started out nicely, with some really cool sounding samples (particularly that tubey sounding effect). Once the song got going, I kept waiting for some sort of main melody to break through, but none ever came. I found most of the song to be a long string of effects repeated one after another. I disliked the fades that occur in the middle of the song. They REALLY break up the flow, and throw the whole song out of whack. Much work needs to be done (like perhaps including a main melody).

Though I am not fond of a lot of this type of techno/rhythm music, a good piece transcends genres. "cHEMICAL" not only has a great set of tweaky instruments but good percussion intermixed with different phases. There isn't melody nor harmony to comment on, but there is technical skill. It's interesting that almost all instruments have no panning controls but yet it doesn't feel like it's lacking. Each passage is interesting and seems to evolve. Some 66 patterns and apparently all are different? The biggest criticism I have is that it isn't bassy enough. The high-pitched instruments and percussion are crisp and clear. The bass is supplied mainly by a sinewave. No bassline to groove to. Other than that, it's a rich, hypnotic groove. Good work.

Interesting sample set with a lot of resonance and distortion. The beat samples work well together. The mix has a spacey sound in the intro, and some nice touches with panning. This song managed to keep me for a while, altough there is actually nothing happening in the melody-harmony front. The mixing is a nigh on perfect (as it should be, since there is hardly anything else here). After a while, it still gets a bit boring, and I found myself looking at the playtime to see if 4 minutes were full already. This is not a song to listen to exclusively, it works better in the background. Skillful soundscapes and a steady beat but nothing very wonderful here.

Yep, Chemical Brothers struck me too.. No far from them anyway, the samples are clean, and the panning is used frequently, very cool with headphones. Still the song's quite monotonous, which it ofcourse should be in its genre. This song's well performed, its spine is built up with breakbeats from sample-CDs, cutted into pieces to make the beats more variating. That's a plus, and the song fits on any dancefloor and it grooves like Chemical Brothers' mixes, so I can't give it less than a 70. Harsh maybe, but still owns its groove in money. Sell it and make a buck!

Catchy song at first, but after it repeats many times it starts to hurt by the end of the song. The whole idea of the song is good, and could be much better. Some things I think hurt the song are Samples 9+10 and repetition. Good things about the song would have to be the beginning or the build up. I feel that this song is too repetitive. I like it when there are variations, and there are many, but it is not enough to stop me from getting a headache. There should be more of a variation in the song, a departure from the normal, but still keeping with the theme of the music. This song should have been sized down to end at about order 30. The extra patterns, if taken down would cut the song in half. Patterns 9+10 are what make me say (below) that I liked it until order 10 or 11. Those samples seem to give me a headache because they are the melody at that point. They are what I pay attention to. There needs to be something by order 10 or 11 that changes the focus. The song itself is very good. I liked it from the beginning until about order 10 or 11. And the rhythms in the song are really well done. This song, if the repetitions are reduced, could be much, much better. But if there was not a catchy rhythm or a good beginning, I would have rated this much, much lower.