by

Vesa Vth
(Vth)

A standard unoriginal but fair quality sample set. The glock start could do with a more interesting tune to it and the regimented melody as a whole lacks in flow which is only slightly helped by the backing arpeggios. The standard beat needs more originality to lift the drab nature of this composition. The bass is slightly off key and needs "far" more life to it. I suggest that you try playing this bassline on a bass. The ending starts to gain in tempo, which would have been a good idea if the track did not then cut with some random notes. There is a constant lack of flow and form brought about by careless transitions, and in all more thought, better production, and tracking techniques are needed here.

The music box from hell. :) Its not too repetitive at first, neither the lead nor the beat. I like the pause thing around track 8. After a while, like around track 15, it begins to settle into a rut. I like the nifty speeding-up toward the very end, it does a good job of breaking out of the rut. Good job with the percussion, its simple yet herds your mind into sync with the song. Its a good song.

-very simple ok use of delay though -bell sequances are out of tune with themselves, fit fairly well in with the rest of the pads and bass -use volume changes to liven up repetaive patterns -annoying panning -well choosen percussion samples.. nice reverb -ack, didn't like the speed up at the end -but, an intersting ending (a bit disjointed though) not bad, develop you rear a bit to pick your pitches a little better and add a little more complexity and layering and this'd be a really cool tune, but this wasn't bad at all

Not bad as a first entry, a couple 'medium' problems. You had a pretty good feel for composition, texture, etc. You started out painfully slowly... not a bid deal overall, though. Transitions were very weak; at the beginning, your patterns all cadenced at their ends, even. Not good for continuity. The bridge in the middle seemed out of place ( the 'transition' going into it wasn't good ) but when you faded in the bells it fit pretty well, unexpectedly. Points for that and for the interesting 'off-notes,' most of which fit into context reasonably well. There was just enough dissonance to keep interest ( otherwise this would have been pretty bad... ) Samples were weak... Originality was good. There wasn't anything exceptional in the way of technical skill... some pans, slides, fades and globals controls. I'd say transitions are the thing to work on next.

Fungames seem to be in. Sounds like an exercise on music instruments. This time it was the computer.