by

Phil Darkwolf
(Darkwolf)

watching me: ambient and sleepy tune. the whole song is an intro ! i was waiting in vain for a climax. its too repititive with near to no changes. a breath-voice let me fall asleep. the musician chose good samples. but where is the lead ?? 40

Nice samples, very thematic piece of music. Its very weird and moody which is how its supposed to be I presume. The problem is there are too many ideas trying to be coveyed at once and the listner feels confused. Technically very good, with some of the best panning I have heard. There is one crackling sample however which was quite annoying. So overall a disjointed piece that has some good ideas which could be refined. Try and find a melody amongst all the different sounds your using and stick with that. Have a piece in the music that the listner takes with him when they hear it and then makes them itchy to hear that bit again as the song progresses.

A wonderful, powerful ambient acid tune...I thoroughly enjoyed this one. The rhtyhm was very good but needed a teense more synchopation. The leads were a bit quiet but I could still pick them out. The panning was well done and you didn't overuse NNA to the point where my lowly P-100/SB16 crashed (like about 20 other tunes did. :O) Your grasp of chords, rhythm, and ambience is very good. I also enjoyed your samples' quality. The only problem I really had with this tune is that it wasn't very thick--it was too ethereal for my tastes as an ambient tune--it seemed to be lacking something.

There was some awful clicking in there. I couldn't track it down exactly, but it was probably a bad loop in one of the samples. d0h that really hurt it's aesthetic appeal too. Anyway, this song had some really good potential. The atmosphere was outstanding, and it had a good basis to become a great song, except that it moved too fast. I understand that you were probably trying to get it close to 4 minutes long because of this compo, but still it moved too fast. You should have focused more on one idea in the song, and built slowly around that, just changes nuances. Taking instruments in and out really quick -all the time- just leaves the listener a little disoriented.

ssssttttrrraaannnngeeee and spooky, nice intro! very interesting and mellow, a pleasure to listen to.