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Saar Velocity
(Velocity)

*File Specs* [Filename]m6i-hotn.xxx [Title]Hot Summer Nights [Total playing time]03:02 *Musical Values* [Creativity]Most creativity can be found in the breaks and the melody in the overall the songs stays consequent in a certain key-combination, after playing this song i started to think things like:"when they are going to play another song?" [Story]I cannot find a clear suitable place for the songtitle within this song, probably because the samples sound like they have been taken from a casio keyboard :) [Structure]Structure is solid, has good breaks, variable melody line though within the grip of a determined key-progression not a really tremendous ending lets just put it on "misunderstanding" of my side. [Harmony]Nah, i don't have found real harmony here, a bunch of loose instruments sounding one time left, the other time right. [Realness/Fantasy factors]Which church uses a Casio Keyboard?, though the idea is neat and funny. *Technical Values* [Instruments]Strange arrangement of panning here, instruments which have NNA enabled which i qould hardly assign them! I certainly cannot find a good explanation for such arrangements.[Samples]8bit and 16bit combined samples, ripped samples used,no fancy arrangements here.[Arrangements]Panning abuse from here to tokio, a hihat ultimately right and some tack ultimately left, synth-pianos swifting from right to left and vise versa...[Use of...]40 NNA tracks? that could have been minored a bit more i think so,i don't really mind use of a lot of NNAvoices as long as they show that they serve their purpose, some instruments sounded too artificial due to these expressive NNA settings.[Sample Quality]The sample quality is good, even the 8-bit samples sound noiseless within the song, ofcourse not seperately. *Sounding Techniques* [Depth]some depths here and there but mostly the song remains in some kind of artificial environment [Width]Width :), yeah one solid range of instruments used the the same level constantly, it only shifts from left to right :)) [Headphones]This is not exactly a headphone song. [Speakers] On speakers it is even more noticable that the author of this song found it really intresting to play with panning.

"Hot Summer Nights" burns in all the wrong places. I was confused- I couldn't figure out how to categorize this tune, and the best that I came up with was "Baroque / Latin fusion." The sample set was thin and nasal; the whole song sounded like it was coming out of a drive-thru window speaker. If you are going to do any type of latin ryhthm, I would think that it would need a bottom end! The panning was all over the spectrum. The transitions and music were okay. However, the codas at the end of the song were definately not needed. I should think that an improved sample set, along with some better thought out panning could improve this tune tremendously.

This song was, well, interesting. I didn't like that panning, it was overused and not put to good use. The samples weren't of the highest quality - it sounded as though they had been taken from a GUS patch set and not filtered or cleaned up. The song was original, but not in a good way. This song was truly very strange and lacked the characteristics needed to make it a nice song.

Something about this track had me lowering the volume repeatedly. Maybe it's the horrid positioning of the hats (to extreme left/right) which annoyed me (it definitely did), and maybe it's the ear piercing quality of some of the instruments (they killed my ears! you bastard!). The track sounds sorta like some people with a few wind instruments jamming away on a dull night, but... well, in this case the panning is over used and done to death. Lots of many things which make the track annoying and enerving :P Individually the samples are quite good though...

Yes, it is not bad idea to combinate pop? and Latin rythmes. Good name of song according to sound. Suprising end point is smily.