Yah mon!
This was a treat to be sure.
You seem to have an excellent grasp of creating music that fits between genres, blending sounds and themes from multiple sources. This song is no different. The bass is absolutely killer and helps it fit the niche of dubstep, but reggae? Seriously? How the hell did you do that?!
Simply amazing.
10/10
5/5
Definitely an upgrade.
Aydin was right. The drop, rather than sounding awesome, now sounds positively epic. The whole song sounds a lot cleaner (in a good way) than it did before. It's odd to hear "polish" on a song that rattles your eardrums as much as this one, and you guys did a great job.
Excellent work, sir.
Thank you man, glad I could make that polish for ya! =D I hope to accomplish the same thing in my future tracks. And hopefully someday soon, FiendO will team up again for super-tracks like this one!
Here's what I think.
After having listened to most of your tunes in a row (I'm a big fan of this site's small but rich collection of amateur dubstep and am still in the process of sifting through it), I can definitely say that your songs are...kinda boring.
I don't mean to be a dick, and it's probably just personal taste, but there are so many places where the beat could really kick in and you could start to go from ethereal background to in-your-face asskickery, but you either choose not to or it doesn't occur to you to do so. It's very strange.
You do some pretty amazing things melodically, but I find this song and most of your others to be similarly unexciting.
I hope this is the worst review that you get, because I can tell you're a talented composer, but all the places you don't visit with your music are the places I'd like to hear you go. I hope your taste and mine align at some point, because I'm going to keep checking back with you. :)
Makin us proud
I left a review on the low-tuned version for Jazzman, but I thought I'd pop in here and congratulate you as well. The effects in this song are amazingly complex and incredibly creative. The bass is almost too dirty for human beings, but thankfully my head didn't explode, although my ears almost did.
10/10
5/5
Another amazing track
The complexity of this song is fantastic. I can't believe how much content you managed to squeeze into 3 minutes.
My ears hurt a little bit, and I think my headphones are damaged, but I think those are synonymous with musical success in the dubstep world.
10/10
5/5
Meh, I think the mastering's still a little off on it. This could be the issue. I think I'm gonna check out the mastering a little more before Robot Day, see if I can't REALLY get that bass to come out. I've listened to this song about a trillion times and it has distorted the way I want to hear it. I figure a break could definitely be a good thing, clear my ears up, receive the criticism, and go back and fix it. Thanks for the review though man, glad that you liked everything going on in it. =)
Improving the genre.
I'm not really sure where to begin. I don't think there's anything I dislike about this song. The intro and transition phases are epic as all hell. The drops made me smile and say "holy shit" out loud. The beat was unique, which is hard to come by. There was a perfect mixture of familiarity and edginess. The contrast of the dirty bass and the beauty of the modified vocal effect was cool as shit to hear. In fact, the only bad thing about this song is the ending...just THAT it ends at all, really.
This is one of the songs that makes this genre better. Well done.
5/5
10/10
I didn't need a shower
so I know it wasn't dirty enough. Getting the bass to mildly concuss my head is something this song could have used.
Everything about this song was extremely well-executed, but it felt like you didn't have much to say, musically. A bit too ambient to be energetic and a bit too dirty to be relaxing.
Overall it was a fun song, but it needs work to really grab the audience.
Excellent job on the synth work, though. The sweeps were pretty much amazing.
8/10
4/5
Thanks. I'm glad you like the sweeps but honestly that was the simplest part of the song. I just had some complications with the limiter but i think its good now
It kept almost being awesome.
But it was a bit on the boring side. There was no real breakdown.
Another thing that turned me off slightly was what I considered overuse of the voice clip starting at 1:30.
It was a fun song though. Have you tried slowing it down to maybe 160bpm? I think that might make a world of difference, because some of the melodic stuff you do gets a little lost in the rushed feeling of the song.
Hey man, thanks :)
You may verry well be pretty correct, I'll tweak it some.
This displays what dubstep can do.
This is the kind of song that gets created when someone has something to say.
Dubstep is too often just about the wobble and sounding as dirty as possible, and (no offense) that's what your and other peoples' songs do often, but this one shows beauty and contrast, which is what I enjoyed.
Ye I totally agree! Glad you enjoyed it!
Real music in electronica is hard to find.
This is, without a doubt, one of very few real artistic statements that I've heard on this site. I was highly disappointed when the song started to fade out. I'm curious if you had more melodic ideas you wanted to explore, because it seemed like you probably just ran out of time/capacity.
Excellent song. Cheers.
Ugh I'm sure if I had more time I would have! =P Yeah, I made this for a contest about a month ago, and the goal was to make a great song in 2 weeks time. Unfortunately, I had to finish it up, so it needed an ending point. I'm sorry if I disappointed you with my fade out lol! =( I honestly had nowhere else to take the song at the time; as you can tell, it packs a great amount of punch throughout the song! I guess too that I was afraid that if the song was too long, people wouldn't listen to/enjoy the whole thing. As a songwriter, I try to captivate both the patient and impatient audiences, so my songs usually have about 5 to 6 motifs in them. Then again, maybe the outtro wasn't a good way to end it. =P Of course, this is all perspective, eh? All I can tell you is I definitely needed an ending point, and I felt that's where it should have ended, given the song in a more general scheme. Thanks for your short but extremely thoughtful review man, it's rare that I ever get a review like this that actually makes me reconsider what I made in my song (lol I've listened to this song twice through just writing the response! =P)...In fact, I beleive you're actually the first one to do it. Sure I get advice, praise, etc., all the time, but I thank you so much for your inquisitive stance! =)
And btw, I WISH I could edit my Author's Notes, but alas, the song has too many DLs now and I can't. =( Oh well. I still think it was worth it though. ;)
Thanks again man!
I'm as ready as a large moose!
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