by

Andrew aksen
(aksen)

A rather dark overall mood in this song. Very good use of drums, but unfortunately that was about all there was in this song. How can one judge a song that consists almost completely of drums? Sample quality was quite ok, but the looped drums were once again a minus and in addition the loop sounded so familiar that I think I recognized it's origin.

Good use of panning at the intropart. Anyway, the drums make my ears hurt. They are distorted and compressed halfway to hell, but lack the kick they should have. After a time, the pad background gets very tiresome, and the elements on it are a bit forcibly glued to the mix. The snare hit is too dominant in the beat. In my opinion the best parts of this tune are those without the distorted beat samples. I waited the whole time for something to happen, but it didn't. This is not a tune I will save after this contest has ended.

Wonder what this style is called? The cymbal/hihat work is cool. One of the snares is too loud,i feel that a softer sound would have fit in better.And the drumloop was unneeded,i muted it once while listening and liked the result more.But hey, i'm just a humble judge. ;) The almost non-melodic nature of this song fits in well,i didn't know i liked this kind of music. There's plenty of originality here,and that is always good.The usage of the 14:th sample is great,when just listening to it raw,it's like one of those screechy strings found in every mod, but here it's used in an intelligent way to produce an eerie feeling.Cool. Still,i wish that the percussion would have followed the "sneaky" nature of the rest of this song.Like it is now,those drums are straight in the face.

i wonder why you entered veteran. i've judged rookie tunes which i think is far more exciting than this track. this is mainly a drumtrack with some additional sounds effects. the drumline is pretty cool. but i think you should have added more of a arrangement to make this tune work.

Over all the song gets boring there is not enough to it. Ineffective volumes, you can barly hear the chior. Lack of good panning. Very repetive drums. all of this hurt your song big time..