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[_-={A Place for Dreams}=-]

Well, whoa

I`ve seen you around in the forum quite a lot, and your stories are awesome. So I wanted to check out your audio too.
So this is the first I`ll check. And I must say; whoa. You really are awesome.

There`s an unique structure in this. It makes me feel warm, calm and cold inside at the same time. It`s a mystic here, and it`s making it obvious too. I`ve never heard anything like this before, it feels like there is a movie, and within it is a story.

Maybe it is the instruments? I have indeed heard all of them before, but not as... systematically set up like this.
Like... as a story, huh?

There IS one single flaw. And that single flaw is the tiny bell in the very start, which is set really loud, and it kinda spoils some of the other here.

Anyways that is just a bag. You wouldn`t resubmit it with a lower set tiny little bell, huh?

Q

MaestroRage responds:

perhaps if I make a remake of the piece, but I do agree the music box sounds are a tad loud at some parts, it seems in my attempts to make it sound like a coming and going memory (getting louder, then softer etc), I may have damaged the song.

You are right, every piece has a story, I write some of them down because I find the image absolutely wonderful, and sadly enough some of them I can't write down, because my words fail me. This is one of those songs, I simply did not know how to write it's existence with words.

I'm grateful you see the structure and reason for each one of these pieces, this is after all, why they exist.

Thank you for the review, once again i'm glad you enjoyed them :D.

[Rock The Techno]

Original

I like the way you combined rock and techno. Doing o turned out being a very original and enjoyable track.
Still, I would like to see a lot more into it. It`s a kinda basic track, though. If you added more melody and such into it, then it would be exciting to listen to all the time.

ErikTheEntertainer responds:

Whoa. Thanks, i always try to have a certain theme for the track. In this one you can guess it. In Akikao i gained inspiration from kinda spooky picture. The Laboratory makes an exeption, i didnt have a theme for it but i wanted to do something that does not sound like the other tracks.

[Khuskan - Nocturne in D Minor]

HAH

Nice classical.
I think there`s such you can add to, it though it`s classical.
If you want to choose another style, you could add stuff like basslines synths and such, but I´m pretty sure you know that of course ;D

There`s a very nice melody. And you`ve also added a huge room feel into it, which makes it sound like if it was played on a concert or a hall.

Good work yeah!

Khuskan responds:

Well, I -could- add bassline synths, but then it wouldn't be a romantic minature, and therefore wouldn't be 'classical'

[RR - Bland]

Cood work, but well

Classical start for music of yours, a weird, bended trancelead, but this time it fuzzes up, so the clarity gets really harsh.
And it stops after some time, but it`s just the bass going a bit time after this. But you shouldn`t add anything, either, it would just sound confusing. So how about this just being a song.
an improvement I think you should have is removing DJ from your name.

DJRaveR responds:

yeah, lol, ummm, the name RaveR is already taken, and I thought that seems Im going to be adding music, I'd put DJ in front of it :P.

[RR - Shift]

Rush?

You shouldn`t make thing in a rush... But this went out quite well, though. It`s pretty basic for a song, but it`s unique too.
Only drums here are clapping, so it may seem a bit dry for it, but since you have such a load of background instrumnets, it turns out being an exciting experience.
Also, check out my stuff PLZ

DJRaveR responds:

Sweet, sure thing. Don't you think it sounds like a march or soemthing, huh, I think it would be sweet for a flash. :P.

[Slipping Away (Stealth)]

For some reason I really liked this.

I love it when flutes are played right, and if they are played like this, I really love it. The flutes in the start of this were played really good, it`s beyond words. The melody was maybe the best melody to a flute.

After the start, it goes out in a guitaric part, which beats up, in which spoiled some of the enjoyment of this. It didn`t really fit the flute, and could have been done when the flutes were ended.

From there on, it really doesn`t impress me much. The voices, seemingly randomly places, sounds more like beatboxes, and makes it more of a comical matter than doing it better.

The mix thereon was really weird, as the piano put in fits the flute, but the guitar didn`t.
You should slow down the guitar a bit, into the tact of the flute.
If you did so the whole song, and not the start only, it would`ve been MUCH better, as the off-tempo guitar seems like random climpring when the flute is the real matter.

Okay, the voices should have been slower too, and either reverbed or removed. what weird synth is playing these voices? It`s voices, but it sounds more like played on a keyboard, huh.

Stealth-Emergence responds:

Thanks for the feedback SBB

yeah well I've spent ages on this and I ended up with this as the result, I really wasn't sure what to do with it once I got it to this stage,

So i've thrown it out here, as I've stated a few times now ;) lol

But thanks to everyone's critique I know where I'm going wrong with this now, and so I will come back to this eventually and mae all the necessary changes

oh as for the voices, they were a soundfont I found, I had a few others which I was umming and erring about using in place of that one, maybe they should have been removed totally!

Well I will note all points made and will re-establish this track at some point

Thanks SBB

Peace Out!

Stealth

[SR - Softened Gaze -Full-]

Well nice!

I liked it quite a lot. It`s a slow and beautiful track.
It begins slowly and relaxed, and continues slowly getting up at it.
Maybe it was a bit too slow, making it boring to wait for the song really catch up.
But at 1:45 or so, you finally release the song, aking it much better.

The flutes shimmer at times, but I don`t know how to prevent that. Maybe lower the scale, but that would be too deep. Or just play it softer.

But I liked this. Nice job!

SineRider responds:

Ah thank you man for the review

[Det är över nu igen]

Good enough

I liked it, but why the holy mighty fucking fingering god do you use swedish titles when you are from Japan?
All MIDIs/wavs at NG seems to be less than 10 seconds long, so maybe there are restrictions at either. Either way, the loop mixed well, nice instruments, and a relaxed and smooth melody.
You should really try getting the files into mp3, as it fits the page better.
Nice song anyways!

raitendo responds:

I'm Swedish, but I lived in Japan (I think I actually moved back to Sweden on the very day you wrote this review). I made this song 4 years ago, but it's nice that somebody would finally write a review for it :) Not that I've been touching any music programs ever since.

[|| FranticMasta ||]

Whoa...

I hope this is not a submittion, because you are the admin of this, and can decide this right away.. but since you say Exhibition Piece, I think I`m fine with reviewing it.
Well yea sure it`s frantic. And sure it`s perfect. Or did you make the song fitting this remix.. seems like.
I loved this, and I think those who want to participate in the contest will either get really inspirated or hopeless.
Oh well.
(I`m such a fanatic :)

HouseMasta responds:

thanks!

[Silver Clouds Looming]

Nice track!

This was awesome, you know it yourself.
Hell of an intro, leads out into a nice ambient sounds collection.
And the following 8-bits were really cool. You have a really good melody. the song is a bit repetative. You could have added more, but you really don`t need to. the 8-bitser is very crushed at times, making it sound horrible. You could choose another instrument instead of it, or pick up a sound cleaner effect to clean the noise out with.

1812 responds:

Thanks for the review, and thanks for the tip... Sound cleaner you say??
Glad you liked it :)