by

Dirk rP2
(rP2)

This song starts out sounding way too much like gabber. It shapes up into something decent, with a nice theme, but then it stays there. Good music is supposed to tell a story, take the listener somewhere they haven't been before. All this song did was repeat the same theme over and over and over again. That gets really annoying. The samples were good, and the technique was ok, however. Maybe try spending more time moving thte song next time.

"Standard" techno without much originality. The "delayed" lead wears you out after a while, and although there is some variation in the song, it feels very repetitive. Try to pan the instruments, all sounds are dead in the center, and this hurts the song a lot. Good parts are thet samples are OK, and there is a solid feel to the song overall.

An OK song overall. I fell like throughout most of the song, the beat just vastly overpowers the rest of the song (thud, thud, thud). It was hard to hear the other parts of the song with the same beat thudding every half second for five minutes. The main melody is extremely repetitve at parts and is not all that original to begin with. I like how you did the short interlude in the middle, it was a nice touch. I enjoyed the panning effects towards the end of the song and really liked the sample you ended with. Not really seeing where you got the title, but that doesn't really matter anyway. =)

This one scares me to the core. It reminds of a time when the undertaker was making gabber mods and such.. really twisted.. anyway, it starts out no better or worse than a lot of other things in a similar, erm.. style but after about a minute or so it 'letting loose' is just too much and it's really difficult to listen to anymore. Its not gabber, it's some sort of an attempt at a dance track.. there's absolutely nothing that stands out about it that isnt just nerve-wracking after a few repeats.

Technically, it's pretty solid even without the use of many volume envelopes or panning controls. Stylewise, it's a fast-paced Depeche-like track, that blends the edgy-ness of synths against the softer tones of the piano. The problems I have with it are that it is the same melody repeated over and over again. Basically, a cut-and-paste operation while adding/subtracting instruments. So, while it may be a good song, it isn't very inventive and as such it doesn't get points for creativity. Things that would help it are: 1) adding in sections of synths-only, tweaking them to make them play the parts of the melody by the piano, 2) give the piano a bigger role to do soloing or a counter melody rather than just the same 3-quarter-notes-in-a-row, or even 3) introducing chord changes. So overall, a good effort but not outstanding.

I'm not really into hardcore, but as the musicscene looks now, this would surely compete with some of the less known hardcore- groups outthere today. The samples are good, and so are the performance for this song. It's quite simple and not so melodious, but that's what hardcore is all about. It'll earn a 55 because it's good, but not outstanding.

Nice beginning, but the transition from slow to fast seems a little abrupt (order 1). It seems to loose its "spacey" theme from the first few seconds of the song. Nice melody at order 4, but repetitive after a while. The whole song almost seemed to be just repeating the melody. But it is catchy so the repetitiveness does not effect the score too badly. Nice background variations, many things are going on behind the melody that go well with the song. The only thing that I would say effected my scoring on this song would be its repetitiveness. There is a variation in the melody, but not enough to make me get tired of hearing the melody, no matter how catchy it is.