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[Apotheoses]

Awesome with a unique idea!

You're gonna have to explain to me what you added, just for the sake of knowing...

Anyways going on the idea that you used everyday objects to help you with this song, that's a really neat idea!
Getting to the song! At the beginning, the everyday items were used to create what I thought was a neat jungle-type scene, and it builds into a pretty good orchestration, the lack of percussion in the middle area is actually justified by the use of the other instruments, mainly the french horns. But near the end, I would have maybe turned up the percussions slightly, but that's just me.

I afraid my score for this one has to be the same score I gave to your opponent, as both are really good in their own way.

TheBenjerman responds:

Thanks for the written review! I'm afraid I can't tell you everything I added to the percussion because I used some sounds of unknown origin from before I accurately categorized my samples. :-( I drew on the Stormdrum 2 library of Eastwest, and a lot of percussive sounds (wood on wood, metal on wood, I think there is a brush hit in there somewhere) that I had previously. I was a little inspired by the Everyday Noise Contest that Back-From-Purgatory put together; I wasn't able to submit anything to that but I judged.

I suppose I would have to agree with the higher percussion at the end. It's a question of how classical and how ethnic should it be? And I probably should have leaned a little farther to the ethnic side after the classical "interlude."

And thanks for the great score! I'm fine with getting the same score as SBB, he had a sweet piece too. ^_^

[CKC - Human Revolution]

Some clashing, but still good.

Interesting start, has an outer space effect to it.
The space sound and the violins I feel clash once you get to 0:40. By clash I mean that both parts are fighting for the lead. The percussion in this is very powerful and very enjoyable. At 1:20 there's a good buildup, but it doesn't lead to anything "epic"
Nonetheless the part following is still good.
Once it hits the 2:15 mark, it gets to a good epic point where it's obvious that it's reached the climax where the humans are fighting for freedom. Just keeps going until the end, which leads to a good conclusion.

The effect you try to achieve is certainly achieved, the violins and the space sound clash, and the percussion is powerful.
Great job!

CKC2009 responds:

why thank you good sir

[Age Old Question]

Heartbeats for kicks is awesome,

You also keep the listener interested.

So to start off, how do you record your heartbeat? I can tell it's your heartbeat, but how'd you get it in a crisp quality? That's a pretty cool idea to use that.

Anyways, so the beginning part is slow moving, but it has enough to keep the lister's grasp and keeps adding onto it. The glitchy effects you use as it goes on
is pretty cool. The buildup following is great with the use of the violins in a chromatic fashion. But, it leads to nothing, I always like a buildup that leads
to something epic. The part following the talking is again slow moving, but still has enough to keep the listener interested.

Therefore, the glitchy effects work quite well with the song, and you use enough to keep the listener interested. But once thing that gets me is the song doesn't leave me questioning about lifeforms out of this planet.

InvisibleObserver responds:

Family has some war heirlooms and one is a piloting mask. It has a stethocope like device for radio use built into the leather cap. It functioned well as a stethoscope with a tascam dr-07 on the receiving end. I had to limit the hell out of my chest recording and then remove noise, then EQ for appropriate kick freq features.

Thanks for taking the time to review.

[AF - Breath (Alfa Mix)]

Good groove, a neat idea, but the slow part drags.

I like how it gets right into the song, good beat and gets into the melody right away. Though I find it hard to hear any chord progressions until 0:50. Once here, it's nice and calm, sounds like something someone would meditate to. This part does go on for a while however and after a bit, I'm urging for it to go back to the way it was. At about 2:05 you have an interesting use of what I think is mixing the progression with the percussion, which I find to be kind of neat, but I feel it has some blending issues there. Once at 2:30 things are back to the first part, nice groove going on, and then it just starts to build up gradually, which is always good IMO.
All in all, good melodies when there are, the slow part seems to drag on, and I like the what you did after the slow part.

aliaspharow responds:

Calm part is always the best part! But hey, its just a mater of opinion.

[[dB] Endless Summer]

I like it, it's so serene!

The beginning of this is really good, a nice blend of instruments, and I like the effect you used on the guitar. The feeling you create with this is very strong, it makes me imagine that I'm drinking at a beach side bar. The calm and serene atomsphere in the song is amazing. It's combined very well.
I honestly can't say much against this, so good work!

Decibel responds:

Thank you, I very much appreciate your input and the fact that it represents something good to you,makes me so happy =D

>DJ<

[(NUB)Caught Off Gaurd]

Epic with a slight problem with the bass.

Very interesting beginning, good use of staccatos and delay in that part. I really like how built up to the main part, because when it reached the main part, I found it's pretty epic. One thing though, the bass, it seems to be extremely quiet, and especially during the part between 1:25 to 1:50. The melody during that part it pretty nice, with an extremely slight repetitive tone to it.
Besides the bass being a little quiet for my liking, it's well composed, and well put together. Not much I don't like about this song.
Good work!

nubbinownz responds:

Hehehe it's not as quiet as you would think, I use my car for mastering my productions and The emphasis was on pure sub, in my car and on the studio monitors the bass is 2 notches below obnoxiously loud lol.
Thank you very much for the well written and legit review though. I always appreciate them.

[SN | Music is an Expression]

Good melodies and trippy effect...

But the lack of percussion drives me away.

I see what you did there at the beginning! Anyways, this is a pretty interesting intro/buildup, takes awhile, but I like how you add enough every little bit to keep me interested... Then it goes to the expression message, which is actually quite interesting. The part following, good melody, but bring it into something more faster. Once that's done, add more drums! The single beats seem to deter me from this, because I feel percussion is a big need in any song. Ignoring the lack of percussion, the melodies in the part are still good, and have a bit of a trippy effect to them.

Those drums/percussions are needed though. I agree that music is an expression, but there's so many ways to express it! This is one of them, but there's so much more that could be done to enhance the expressionalism in this!

SessileNomad responds:

thanks for the review

i agree with everything you say, hardstyle is not my forte though :/

[[Fiji] Subconscious]

Good groove at some parts,

Good groove at some parts, but some of the note structures bother me.

I have to say, the beginning I found was very slow moving and repetitive (just read the commentary so the repetitiveness is forgiven), once it hits 1:15 it starts to get on a better buildup.

As it starts to get into it, I find that it's easy to get into a groove, the levels seem right, everything is hearable. The melody at 1:30 - 2:13 works nice, but although there's a noticeable buildup to the next part, there wasn't much for it to build up to. Trying to go past the repetitiveness of the following part, the ah's you use are pretty neat, and it works out pretty well with the piano. After that it's easy to get into a groove again. For the piano during this part, I would add just a bit more to the melody, and it could turn out to work pretty well. When it gets to the last minute of the song, I see that you use the melody from the first part, for this, you use same note setup, which I feel that it fits with the song, but those last notes don't move on to anything. For that, make those notes build up to a good conclusion.

Can't say too much about the levels, they seem pretty alright!

MrFijiWiji responds:

this is a very fair review :) thnx

[Ngadm [Echo City]]

Fast paced, but hard to hear the progressions

Seeing as how the song is, I feel it might be hard to review this. I personally feel that the drums are pretty much overpowering the rest of the instruments.
The rest of the instruments are underpowered by the drums, so it makes the progressions hard to hear and I don't hear much melody.
Man I'm finding it hard to review this. It's very fast paced, and I just hear alot of chaos. Sounds like something that you'd hear from an F-Zero game.
So I'll say this: With my knowledge, I would turn down the drums, and turn up the rhythm progressions. Other than that, for me, it's a song that's hard to distinct what it is.
But that's just with my knowledge, which has no experience in DnB.

SteakJohnson responds:

This was, unfortunately all i could pull off in my less than 6 hour total window to work on music (broken up into like 3 different sessions)... with my crappy skullcandy headphones. I know its not good lol, i can hear that much. Thanks for the review though.

[NGADM Round 1 {Dj-Abbic}]

Good beginning, but gets repetitive

At the begginning, I really like the effects you used to make it seem to bounce from headphone to headphone. The progression has a sad-ish feeling to it, but it's also calming. The melody in the first part starts to put in a kind of happier tone in the sadness of it. At the part where the melody kicks in, I start to notice a buildup effect that doesn't lead into something to make the buildup worth it. Then again, it's not as much of a buildup effect as the part after has. As it gets into the main part of the song, The structure you put sounds believe it or not, heavy. Being the kind of person I am, I really like the heavy effect. However I do feel that it drags on for awhile before the melody kicks in. But when it does, it's already close to the end of the song. The melody at this part is pretty quiet at the start, but I see the effect you put in there. I like the effect the melody gives in the song near the end. But in the end, I would have liked to see more melody in there.

Can't really say much regarding the mastering, it does seem good for the genre you chose for this song. The instruments you picked Also fit quite well. So there's not much to say regarding this part.

DjAbbic responds:

Sorry for the late reply, but my internet's been a *beeep*.

I can't really write a long reply as I feel kind of lazy at the moment, but I have read your review :) Thanks for the criticism and input.