Score: 9

"Old School"

submission: Kitty in Space

date: July 31, 2009

Reminds me of the early jungle/dnb from the late nineties... simple pads, ambient atmosphere, and the Amen break.

Like your work.

Score: 10

"5 & 10"

submission: Reasoner- Tracing Back

date: April 29, 2008

This song is fantastic! Straight to my favorites list!

This tune is top notch; the arrangement is superb (great builds, breaks and automation), and you picked your timbres perfectly (I love your pads!).

Because this is an incredibly well done song I'm going to get incredibly picky in my criticism, so break out the salt because I am by no means a professional :P Mastering is by far the most difficult thing about producing a song and I think your levels, eq-ing and compression need more tweaking to make this a truly professional sounding/commercially viable tune.

My first criticism would be that the guitar sounds too perfect, too quantized and sterile, but that is my own personal taste and is neither here nor there. The song should start much quieter so when you have the drum build up at 1:40 there will be a greater feeling of build and hype into the rest of the song. I also feel that the drums should be much more up front making this song more of a banger. After the lead synth and the massive build up to 1:40 the song feels a little deflated. You could probably scale back on you lead synths a little; they are so cutting (which is good) that they don't take too much volume to cause the hype you're going for, and by scaling them back you will have more headroom to work with. I would also like to hear your leads and arpegiations bussed lightly into the same reverb your pads use. Doing so may seem like a contradiction, especially after making room for everything with eg and compression, but it would give the song better cohesion by having the sounds subtly blending in a practicably inaudible way.

I'm not sure what else to say :P You know full well it's a phenomenal song! You get a well deserved 5 & 10 from me.

I love you pads, bring out the drums, scale back your leads.

Keep up the great work!

Mo

Score: 10

"5 and 10"

submission: Reasoner- Returning Home

date: April 22, 2008

I went through some of your songs, and you definitely have quality production. I like! When I listened to this one a remix idea immediately came to mind. Right now there is so much I want to do (and so little time, of course) that it may take me a while to get to it, but I'll keep you posted with any developments. :)

Mo

Score: 10

"Goosebumps, man!"

submission: Chemical Love

date: April 19, 2008

I think i smell another remix on the horizon!

Score: 8

"Finish it, damnit!"

submission: Karco - Rush (Demo)

date: March 27, 2008

It has potential to be a great tune, but like you said, it's a demo, so no full score from me! 4 and 8 is respectable, anyway.

Now some creative criticism. (You wouldn't put up a demo unless you wanted some, right :) Ok!

The first thing that came to mind is that the song is too slow. You're plodding along at 109 bpm. Unless you're intentionally taking the song slow, you should really take this tune waaaay up, between 150-160. Most dance tunes fall between 130-145, but because of the sound, styling and chords progression, this tune would be better suited at a faster dance temper, ala the happy/frantic tunes of DDR. When you develop the song you might want to make a really slow section in the middle, only to build it up to full speed again. It would create some tremendous hype.

Second: do not apologize for it being too loud! That's what this music is supposed to be!

EQing and compression: You need it. Since all your sounds are high energy you need to make sure they all have some wiggle room. I also want to hear everything else throb around that kick.

Also on the high energy note: Use a good resonant lowpass filter to roll off the high end in sections, then and build up into a huge sweeping crescendo.

Well, that should get you started!.. Then again, I could develop the song for you if you like! Damnit! Now I really want to! :P I already have a remix of Temple in the pipeline, so what's one more, right?

Let me know!

Keep up the good work.

Mo

Score: 10

"Do I smell a remix?"

submission: Dewy Embers

date: March 25, 2008

The last little while has been outstanding for the ambient chart at NG, and this is no exception. The songs I want to remix just keep piling up. Great job!

Mo

5 & 10

Score: 10

"Very Nice!"

submission: Karco - Temple

date: March 25, 2008

Looks like I have another remix project to work on!

5 & 10

Score: 10

"A re-imagining"

submission: Prelude No.3 in Bb Minor

date: March 19, 2008

5 and 8 from me. Like you said, quality and length!

A short, clean tune like this is inspiring, remix-able, and easy to add to. I think I might work on this one myself... I might even extend this one before you do! ;) I'll keep you posted if I do.

Score: 9

"Yeah-yeah!"

submission: It's happy tiiiiiiiiiime!!!!!!

date: February 28, 2008

Make those little pixelated forest creatures bounce those big fat juicy booties!

5 and 9 from me... why not 10? This needed some more compression to really make this tune fat and snappy. Make that kick hit me in the face like Ass and Titties!

Great tune

Score: 9

"The perfect ice sound..."

submission: Ice Crystals

date: October 7, 2007

The sound track for lying on my back in the snow watching the northern lights...

I really really dig this tune... except for the percussion.

Now, granted, this is opinion :) , but you should have either brought the purcussion out in full force (with kicks and snares and the whole sheh-bang), or subdued those hats more and pushed them further back into the mix by toning down the volume and softening them with some delay or reverb. They way they are now they feel too upfront and static.

But seriously, I'm being picky :) Great job. 5 & 9 from me... yeah, those hat's bugged me enough to bring it from a 10 to a 9, sorry :(

Man, expect a remix of this sometime in the near future... Great job :)