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Pretty much the same comments here as the previous jungle-based song. There's a lot more content here of course, but nothing terribly exciting after a few minutes, it's mostly the same old percussion masturbation. I should take a break.

Step responds:

Percussion masturbation haha.

By faaaaar my most boring track. But it has a few half-decent rhythms. My last jungle track is Jungle Spirit, which is probably the best from the lot.

That windows startup sound was AWESOME! It has that cool kinda triplet feel. The different melodies still clash horribly, and as always there's a mix of pretty decent melodic ideas and shitty random ones. Drums are getting a bit less awful, but only a bit.

Step responds:

Everyone I showed it to loved the intro with the startup sound. But yeah over here I started adding a tonne of sound effects everywhere so there was a noticeable decrease in quality.

Good to hear another original melody for once. I think you can just look at previous reviews to deduce my opinion about this one as well. I'm kinda having trouble believing this is the same guy who made songs like Sanctuary and Unwavering Assault..

Step responds:

Man, almost all my early stuff was techno :P. Orchestral started easing in as my primary genre in early 2010 when I got East/West.

It pains me to hear this track again. It's so dissonant. However the part at 1:26 wasn't a bad idea. I have to do something like that again sometime.

I remember this tune from playing Smash Bros... you're treating the melodies pretty good with these instruments. Despite the claim about not using a midi file, it kinda smells of midi rip anyway. Maybe you just have a good ear

Step responds:

I have a baaaaaad ear. But I SOMEHOW figured out the melodies, and checked them with a MIDI file to see if I got the notes right. I made a tonne of mistakes though.

This is one of my favourite tunes from Brawl. I had to remix it eventually :P.

The harmonies are just wrong, haha. They don't make sense. It would actually require a bit of music theory knowledge to pull that off, and you're obviously just going by ear. The sampled jungle beat is a pretty neat addition. Not much else to talk about considering tetris remixes are so abundant.

Step responds:

Yeeeaaah this one sucks :P. Decibel had just started out with music at the time, I remember.

Thanks for reviewing!

I don't care what you said in the skype chat, this is so much better than all your previous songs in every way. Drums are actually pretty okay for once. The main melody is pretty good even. And yeah the different melodies clash horribly as you mentioned. But when there's only main melody, this is actually relatively passable.

Step responds:

Haha, as you know they get worse. At the time I thought that the more stuff you add to the track, the better it gets, so I got completely power-crazy and added tonnes of sound effects to it.

This actually got pretty popular when I submitted it. Probably my second track to reach relative popularity.

You should feel terrible for making this. :) At least the instrument choice makes sense here. I don't usually have that much to say about remixes since there's no original melody to talk about, this is no exception

Step responds:

I do feel terrible.

Yeah this track has serious limiter issues. But I made nearly every sound in there with Sytrus so I guess I deserve some merit for that.

4 variations on the same boring old theme? Getting a bit tiresome now. The clean guitar makes the melody pretty clear compared to previous remixes/variations, and even though you're still using that awful distorted synth guitar, the mixing has gotten a little bit better so it's not too jarring now.

Step responds:

Yeah this is the last remix of that melody I promise.

Being my first ever actual rock song, I'm glad it didn't come out horribly and with awful FL Slayer stuff.

Yeah, drums keep ruining everything but at least they're a bit more quiet in the mix here, so it's not all that bad. The trumpet melody is actually kinda bluesy at times. I think I'm hearing the first signs of your future epic orchestral harmonies too, at least with the strings. Exciting times

Step responds:

I lol'd. I consider this one of my most horrible-sounding tracks, actually. But some melodic ideas weren't bad. And adding those trumpet fanfares wasn't a bad idea. But the instrumentation is god-awful.

Reverb! Finally. This is so much better than what I expected from the title. There's actually a nice driving beat, and the chaotic drum style is a lot better when the drums get to play on their own. Some of these drum sounds really snap well. The melodies tuned percussion are actually the biggest drawback here. At this point, pretty impressive!

Step responds:

Man, this here is one of my really early tracks that actually has potential. I seriously have no idea how I did it. The structure is actually really good and some of the rhythmic components and buildups and whatnot almost sound professional. And some of those transitions like the one at 0:57 are brilliant. Well, relatively brilliant compared to my other stuff, at least :P.

Yeah that marimba thing messed it all up. Ah well!

welcome to bluegrounds :))

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