Score: 9

"Certainly original!"

submission: Dwindled Bible

date: January 23, 2008

I have the feeling this song goes through so many styles. Firstly, there's your very good use of the violin, providing a very sound riff. The solo violin (and flute) were very nice too. But then this song really made me smile. The vocals were very good. I also like how you used the acousic guitar in it. This whole song has "watch out, sentimental & medieval!" written all over it.

Though, as the use of (heavy) crash cymbals, I though the vocals would go to a next level to reach a climax. I think it's a bit sad that it didn't. LikeFlamingFirebolt said, there were a lot of ways you could still continue this song or provide an alternate ending.

Very well composed alltogether, this song is certainly worth listening to!

Score: 7

"Basic classicalytiness"

submission: Dj Mixed

date: January 18, 2008

Classical music has a certain thing to it. It's hard to ruin once you know how to compose classical music. Overall classical keeps you safe. I can fairly say that this tune was safe and not daring. Though good music doesn't have to be daring. Most music is good by just rocking at the basics.

I do, however, believe that you can polish up the use of your techniques. I often heared the backstrings/synth fall rather abruptly and leave the piano "alone". Having only one instrument playing is rather dangerous. Whenever you do that, you must have a good reason to it (like an ass-kicking solo or something). Even though piano can sound very good on itself, I think that it didn't really "fit" into this song too well. Adding to that, I noticed that the piano volume was a bit dodgy. You might want to hook that up to a EQ (and maybe a reverb?). Also, the bass notes on the piano didn't ring through too long, the function of the lower tones is to provide a steady base for the main melody. Just bits of suggestion there.

The percussion was not standard, but sounded good anyway. The "sticks" together made the whole thing a tad more lighthearted. I believe that those were a good contribution to your song.

Overall I liked the song. Not too special, but not bad either.

Score: 9

"My ears just got pwned lol -.-"

submission: Red Gaia

date: January 18, 2008

Very nice tune. This was very rich and held a lot of different techniques, all of which you used nicely. Fast and adaptive, I like it!

Score: 9

"Simply pwning"

submission: When I got Pwned

date: January 18, 2008

Doesn't life sometimes feel like that? That we're all getting pwned... w00t

Very good song, though the rappish part was quite a fierce break-down from the sentimental stuff (sarcastic or not), so you have to like that.

Keep up the good work!

Score: 4

"lolz"

submission: S - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

date: January 2, 2008

you said "ass"

Score: 10

"Nice tune!"

submission: {Lazy Summer Days}

date: January 1, 2008

This was a nice song, complete with build-up and outro.

Main synths were very cool, I especially liked that pitchy bend on one of the notes, made it sound very natural. And once again you use the piano in an superb yet simple way.
I didn't notice the short synths 'till after a few listens. Though they don't seem so obvious they are really needed for the song, I would guess that the reason is that they combine with the main synths in almost one flow of music.

The only thing I could comment on is the outro, it was too boring. It reminded me of the outro of "Harder, better, faster, stronger" by Daft Punk. A lot of percussion (well not that much), but the song could have ended earlier because the only thing left was the percussion.

Though this song is extremely happy and worth it's place amongst the best of NG. I can only hope to once reach your level :-)

Peace
Hadriani

Score: 7

"How weird & short"

submission: Super Metroid : Mother Brain !

date: January 1, 2008

The pitch falling is a deffo no for me. Furthermore, the song sounds like what it's supposed to be: a video game song. Though I think it could be a bit faster and more energetic..

Peace

Score: 9

"Trancy and somewhat Loopish? I dunno :/"

submission: Dad (Full Enlightenment)

date: December 27, 2007

I liked the song and the different styles and techniques you used. This is a very diverse song and that's a rare thing in Trance. Though this is very close to the Trance genre: sweet beats, an energetic synth and some simple but lovely use of percussion. Just this: I found the whole song a bit too... Well, how can I say it.. "flat". It didn't seem to have too many climaxes for a song that's 6 minutes long. After some time it seemed to me that every sound I heared had already been used (but which is probably not the fact), but because it kinda stayed the same after some time, that's how it came over to me.

Overall a very nice trance tune. You showed that you know how to make trance

PS: Pwning outro XP

Score: 9

"Sweet, very sweet"

submission: [[=Broom=]]

date: December 18, 2007

I really liked the soft synths, they provided an excellent base for your song. The percussion is alright too.
I don't have anything bad to say about the loops that you put on top of that base; they're decent and fit the song, though you didn't take any risk on them, but then again that's not what you excpect from such a soft tune.

5/5
9/10
Dl

Very well done

Score: 6

"Mix, not a tune"

submission: Kloptiza

date: November 1, 2007

I don't like mixes, I prefer tunes. Mixes don't have the same way of telling you stuff as normal songs do. This might sound hard to understand, but I'm sure there are at least a few people who understand what I'm saying and think likewise.

You browsed though a whole lot of genres in this mix I noticed, well I think of that as a neutral fact. You won't get bored of the 8-min long track as fast as when it would be only one, fixed genre, but still I rather like a musically coherent song than a mix of lots of different ones.

A lot of good stuff is put in this mix, it's just a bit sad that I don't like mixes.

Peace