by

Daniel Captain Trip
(Captain Trip)

A nice intermediate entry. I love the guitar--really! But the rest of the music is kind of incongrous with it. Why the generic dance beat with the accoustic guitar? I don't get that. The bass is also a bit out of place. It was the claps, though, that did it in for me... Clapping on the 2 and 4 beats is just... well... not a great way to show off musical tallent. And, by the way, doubling up on the bassdrum is a cardinal sin. :) If you -must- do it, seperate the pan so that one is left and the other is right, and then phaze them with a fine pitch slide or something. And the open hihat is too harsh. Oh, and the drumloop at the end it a bit too high-pitched. Anyway. Ignoring all that, I like the opening. It -says- something, where most songs just fade in. The fretnoise floating out in space around pattern 0xB is... well... floating miscellaneously in space! Why? I like the bubbles, though. Nice effect. And pattern 0x21 needs to die, period. That pitch slide at the beginning is just really weak. Aside from all this, though (I'm being harsh, sorry), there are some real strengths--mainly in your use of the guitar. It's truly masterful. If you could write some nice accoustic or fusion to back it up, this would be a wonderful entry. Oh, and the ending was very cute... It made up for the generic song title. :)

Oiy, watching the patterns jump makes me sea sick. Overall a nice song. Order 8-10 seem a little disjointed. Volumes are well planned, background strings with loud melody and bass sounds make for a fuller sound. Also the spacial pannings on the strings make them come from around the listener rather than a speaker. While the basics of the song stay the same, there is enought modification to keep the listener interested. I can't really think of much you'd want to change about this one, it can play in the background over and over while you work without it ever bothering your. (well I did) Hehe, cute ending too.

Overall this song is very nice. In one thing he is good - the song doesn't repeat itself too much. In the first 3 orders (0-2) the changes of the chords aren't clean, and could be better. The leas sample is good but the solo needs to be improved. The rythm cahnge after this 3 patterns is strange and not in his place and channels 17-19 are too different from the first patterns mood. Then again from order 6-8 the chords aren't clean. The suddenly stop of the rythm and the beginning of the lead again aren't adding anything to the song, but when the rythm comes back it is in place. The lead here is good thou it returns too many times. The bit in order 28 is a wierd choice, also because it is only for a few paterns. Order 32 doesn't make sense. The end itself is funny, but meaningless. summery: good job tracker, but you could change a lot and make this song great (and get some more points from me). that's why i gave you 60. have fun. Vel.

This song seems like it doesn't go anywhere much. After the first intro statement, you add some percussion, but there's no real movement after that. The guitar melody is somewhat buried under the percussion and the backbeat. I can hear some good chord changes, but they aren't really noticable because of the low volume you have the guitar set at. It might help if you upped the volume on some of the samples just a little bit. The key change near the end was very awkward sounding, perhaps don't make it so quick. It takes a few seconds for the listener to key into a change, but a little bit less time if he is prepared. This song had some good points, but it also had it's bad points.

Clever with the name. Anyway, nice song. Very relaxing atmosphere. Veteran quality samples. Like the sound effects. Unfortunately, overly simple. The guitar was pretty much the only time we get to hear your musical talents. The rest of the time, we only get to hear some minor chord progression and the beating of techno loop drums. Even in such a relaxing song, please give me more to judge! Also, as usaual with vocals, take that vocal out (vocals tend to kill songs, even at the end). Still, I anjoyed the song... you've really got potential.

Why did you do the A-1 swing beat? It didn't add anything to the song; the only effect it had on me was to make my eyes hurt. Pretty good integration of the two themes. My main complaint is that your kick drum is way too loud, it dworns out everything else and is sometimes the only thing I can hear.... (Disclaimer: Emergency Vote!)