by

Jordan Daf
(Daf)

Equalization is the first thing missing in this song. Channels from 2 to 6 covers most of the available dB dynamics. Synth guitar are too aggressive and tend to disturb the listener by introducing a sort of 'oriental' theme over a complex disco-pop music. The set of samples needs a complete revitalization.

I thought 'at least it's got a cool beat" until I saw that it was a drumloop. Bad samples, 8 bit and noisy. Rather poor musical show in the first few patterns, order 17-21 sound pretty cool, but I got the impression that the whole song was built around them. Panning in order 27 is cruel: hard left, hard right alternating... ugh. The sound is almost baroque as in 'there's too much stuff playing at the same time'. The different melodies struggle for the attention of the listener, and in the end, none of them has it. The melody in order 9 is OFF-TUNE !

This song shows potential but needs careful listening and reworking to eliminate the weak points. I like the didgeridoo sample at the start. More work is required in the percussion since using drum loops leads to lack of variation. The extra drum work starting at order 0F is good, with nice volume work on the hihat in channel 11. I like the riff in channel 9. The tune in channels 6 and 7 is poor and needs reworking - overly loud and sample 5 doesn't work successfully. The transition at order 20 is good but the tune clashes with the orchestration in following patterns. The fade out ending is done well, leaving the didgeridoo sample as in the opening. The samples are quite good but need tuning and the panning is good (I like the panning slides in channels 13 and 14. Needs more work on subtlety.

Pretty cool tune, but sadly a little bit lacking in variation. Quite a busy piece there with the drumtrack and all the other noise going on, but that doesn't help the track, it just badly needs some more variety to keep the interest all the way through. Pitch up/down, break it up, do something, anything, just... try to wary a little bit from this narrow path the tune is travelling on. Otherwise it's a fairly well done tune, in particular the samples are of good quality & nicely looped. Good effort.

I like the rave-ish opening. though I kinda get bored of the song. it gets kinda repetitive. watch out for that. try to stick in new elements to make it not so repetitive.