by

Salvatore Nuke
(Nuke)

*File Specs* [Filename]m6v-bggl.xxx [Title]Boggle [Total playing time]Over 04:00 minutes *Musical Values* [Creativity]Unsufficient, no keychanges, hardly descent breaks, lack of musical inspiration if not inspiration then experience will be the best word here, this piece is not created by a person matching the skills belonging to the veteran level.The concept is nice though but it does not save your work.[Story]Action Jackson? [Structure]The build is nice but as soon as the main song goes it starts to become a dragging substance of disordered instruments and kakafonic sfx.. [Harmony]None. [Realness/Fantasy factors]Nice try, try tremendously harder next year. *Technical Values* [Instruments]Only one instrument really arranged?[Samples]Badly looped sample, drum-sequence detected, trademark ripps noticed...[Arrangements]Strange mixing used, a lot of repeative motifs, presampled percussion line, unnatural use of samples, no pure balance on any instrumental and musical surface.[Use of...]Guidelines and examples:have you listened to some vet's from last year? probably not, you should try to categorize your song to which level it belongs before you assign a level to it, maybe intermediar suited you more. [Sample Quality]Most sound good, some are average. *Sounding Techniques* [Depth]No depth [Width]Unreliable width [Headphones]N/A [Speakers]N/A

This started out quite promising. The panning was decent. The looped drum sample, although not much favored, fit in well. Then at order 5, it went all to hell. I thought I was listening to a rookie song. There was no melody, the song went nowhere and I just bided my time waiting for it to end or for something good to come up. Most of the time the chord progression didn't match the rest of the tuneable instruments. Need some work on the redundancy, needs more variance. All in all needs some major work.

This is a bit below average in my opinion. Very monotone, and very ideas presented in the song. The use of long loops doesn´t raise the score either. The sample quality is all right on the loops but not so good on the others. Not very original. Not great technique, and some mistakes in the mixing but not that much.

The fact that this tune only has 5 samples in it does not make for its other shortcomings. Also, these 5 samples still make the song 450K, and they don't have to. There is too much overall distortion in the song, the samples are not the best quality. The intro is lacking in creativity. Once the groove gets going, it isn't bad, but it gets dull very quickly… and with only 5 samples, there isn't much you can do.

Boggle didn't have a particularly pleasing sound, or atmospheric, but as a rave / techno song, it was well done, with lots of panning effects and good samples. Unlike most songs, it didn't overpower itself in any way, but it did seem a little loose and broken, for the most part. Sometimes, it would lose timing completely, even. Also, the drumbeat was ripped, and was mainly repeated too much. In fact, most of the samples seemed ripped from certain places. Still, it was a very good song, for what it was designed to be.

This song begins pretty neat, but soon gets muddled by too much acid. And unfortunately that's all it is... a repeated beat with a bunch of acid creating the rest of the song. The result is a scarcity of harmony, melody, and the biggest of all... *mood*. Just three of my favorite elements to look for in a song. The song seems to have no direction, by that I mean that it doesn't "go" anywhere, and therfore can't take me anywhere, it's a lot of the same. Also, the rezonix is kind of overused towards the end of the song. There are two things that the author could have done to make this song better: 1-keep acid and rezonix in *moderation* (choose other samples that have the ability to hold background themes/melodies) 2-Decide on a *clear*/*distinct* path of mood that you want the song to take and track only towards *it*.

This song seems to me to be utter noise, but I consider that less of a blemish than a challenge. Obvious "rezonatix3" rip from Space Debris, but I like Juno's, and it was used fairly well, so no markdown for it. An otherwise small but effective sample set (except for that drumloop!). The melodies are simply strange. It doesn't come off so much like a song as it does like something to induce a certain mood or sensation. The ending reminded me more of a mast on a sinking ship than anything, yelling for someone, anyone to listen. It looked like only two volume levels were used in the song, and not much effects (besides the extreme pans). The originality of this song ranks relatively high, but I'm still trying to find the song in the crowded noise-scape...