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[{dj-N} Ambientronica]

Great stuff, but simple progressions.

You certainly mixed up the genres, that's for sure.
Starting with the levels, it's all hearable and at a point where nothing is overpowered or underpowered. Excellent work on that.

Now for the composition... ummm... I like it, the instruments you used had a great effect on the song, and the scale(s) you used were used very well. The progressions were extremely simple and I know you could have at least added 2 more notes to that progressions and made it better.
But the progressions aren't supposed to be the drawing point, they supposed to help flow the melody, so let's look at the melody. All I can really say is that the melody is good, the right effects were used at the right times, and yeah...
Great work!

[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. ^_^

[==(Marine Debris)==]

The effect has been achieved!

This is what's awesome about music, you can use your instruments to achieve a certain effect, and you certainly exploited that to it's full potential. I can just imagine myself submerged in the water with all the waste.
With that being said, music is what you make of it and sometimes you have to say screw the rules and go with your gut. You did what you had to in order to give the listener what you had intended. So there's plus for originality and effect. The levels are also quite well managed, everything has their layers.

But if I may give a recommendation, perhaps in order to give a better effect, screw with the levels at different points, the pops might be louder at a certain point as the empty bottle draws closer to the listener. Great work!

[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.

[[AMP] Creeper]

Repetitive... BUT

It still gives the effect it was trying to achieve.

For some reason I knew that it would be hard to pick between you and your opponent. Just like his, your song creates the effect you're trying for from the beginning, and they're both EQ'd very well.
BUT for this, I hear a lot of repetitiveness in the main progression. Change it up a bit, and you're set.

[[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.