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[SubtleForces - Requiem]

very interesting

I haven't heard a good "strictly techno" song in a while. The melody was very memorable, it's just abit overused. That's my only criticism.
But it's not enough to take off a point.
5/5

SubtleForces responds:

Ye, melody was just a "four-bar" thing, but I tried to have the variation with different synths. I try :(

[_/Shining Sky\_ (remix)]

alot better!

Sounds alot lighter, definitely better than the previous version! I have no criticisms other than the fact that it was a good trance remix. What I like about your remixes is that you add abit of extra melody to them.

Thx for remixing this!

ShootingStar responds:

Sweet :) Haha thanks for the song to remix!!

ShootingStar

[Audio Loop (Starter)]

ng has lost it's order

I bet that the A bot just randomly picks out songs from a hat out of the new submissions during the week. What ever happened to the good ol' days when good songs made it to
#1?

HVI responds:

It was actually because it was 5/5 at midnight.. and it does actually pick the top 5 songs.. most of the time.

That was years ago :D When people voted correctly.. 20 5's.. no 0's.. sadly, I am ashamed this even went up.

[_/Liquid Sound\_ (ng cut)]

very liquidy

The melody is a head-sticky one. That's a good atmospheric feel you have there too. Nice tempo, is that 130 or 140 bpm? I have trouble telling this time.

I don't know why the ratings are so low? you must have gotten zerobombed badly.
So many votes too. I could only bring it up to 4.18 from a 4.14.

ShootingStar responds:

Its ok :) Haha thanks for the review!

ShootingStar

[_/Fantasy\_]

Pretty good

You might be having writers block. I can tell because the song is kinda short and you ran out of ideas for the melody of the second of the song. Some transitional errors too after the buildups but all in all it sounds very Fantasy-like to me.
But the best this is that you have officially just developed your own trademark style of trance/dance. I can now tell when something was made by you.
5/5
9/10 for now.

ShootingStar responds:

Yay :) But yeah, I definitely had a block :(
Thanks for the review!

ShootingStar

[Dream Runner Revampd-lidlurch-]

garage band

the melodies & everything are good, it's just that garage band sucks. You seem very limited by the program, . Sounds very dreamy indeed though. Quite calming too. I don't understand why it has a 2.85. Oh well, the person with the 2 vote must have had an amazing voting power.
All in all, the song was great!
good job!

lidlurch responds:

Thanks! Yeah, idk what jerk gave me a two on this, but whatever...I'm pretty against voting on my own songs :P Yeah, well, it's all that i've got *shrugs*, it ain't too bad :) Besides, this song was extremely simple, considering that i made it so long ago. Maybe i'm just too lazy to learn how to use FL studio :P

[SubtleForces - What I Found]

it's hard to explain - 5/5 x 9/10

Yno that main melody which I think you used german trumpet? I notice that you only used 8th notes that played again. Well try to make it sound like......what's your email? I can send you an .flp to describe what I mean. Nice way to make it sound dancy like though! But try to make some original stuff once in a while, I've seen alotta remixes lately lol.
Other than that, everything is fine. I hope I didn't give too much con-crit -_-

SubtleForces responds:

Ye, the melody wasnt ment to be anything special, I just rustled this up casue I hadn't uploaded anything in AGES.

I got some nice up-beat song to upload...I think you will like them :L

[Chimy727 -Go!]

really good!

I just feel that the drum placement needs work.
For example, here are afew placements in this song:

Kick only
Kick & hat
Kick & clap.
I say that they should it should be Kick, clap and hat going.
It sounds sort of dry without out it.
Try to have this in not all parts of the song but put this placement structure in places that you feel needs it.
Nice slow ending though! and the melodies were great.
overall score 9/10 for now.

Chimy727 responds:

yeah i do that alot! i suppose i should keep em together!
:D

thanks for the review once again!
-chimy727

[_/Feeling\_ (vocals)]

Good lyrics.

They just progress at a too slow rate though. The music was really good but try to use some different melodies every now and then but even so but it wasn't even that repetitive because it was a really good melody. And when you say together and forever when you add a delay echo effect, they start to overlap eachother and sound sort of morphed.
But that's about the only things wrong. Everything else deserves a 10.

drums = 10/10
music = 10/10
vocals = 9/10
lyrics = 10/10
repetition 9.5/10

Overall score = 10/10.
Good job.
If you fixed those things out, this song could become a big hit in your coming future.

ShootingStar responds:

Yeah haha I didn't really do much for the song :P I'm probably not going to fix any of the stuff.. just keep it in mind for the next song. I'm lazy :D
Thanks for the review!!

ShootingStar

[_/I wish you were here\_[edit]]

cool!

The vocals are quite good actually for a first try. I can definitely see you getting famous. But you sort of added sidechaining or whatever to the song which gets kind of annoying after a while. But this still deserves a 10/10.
good job!

ShootingStar responds:

Yay :P haha thanks a bunch for the review!!

ShootingStar