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All right.

Well, I'm not a fan of the more dance oriented electronica genres, so hopefully some one else will be able to leave a more in depth review for you. I'll think about nominating you as an underdog in the audio forum, hopefully that will get you some more reviews.

When I saw "Gerudo Valley Remix" in the advertising thread, I had to check this out. That was probably one of my favorite songs from ocarina. I've downloaded a few remixes of it off of newgrounds. This one isn't the best, but believe me, it's by far not the worst. There are some parts of this that feel kind of empty. I understand that you can only do so much with a remix, but that doesn't mean you should hold back at all from making this your own. Really, go nuts!

Some of the instruments sound like they could use some work. The melodies are perfect, but the atmosphere the sounds create just seem a little off. Try working with the instruments a little more until you get a more professional sound out of them.

The instrument at around 1:08 is the piece of this track I dislike the most, the way it quickly fades and comes back. You can get that kind of effect to work, but it doesn't here. Try fine tuning that.

All in all, I'd say that this is a good beta. When you get the final out, send me a pm. Try not to submit the song until you get a little more feed back though, trust me. If I can get you any more attention in the under dog thread, I'm sure that the people there will be able to get you some more adequate advice.

Conian responds:

Thanks for the pointers and the fact that you're considering to put me up as underdog. :-D Glad you liked it, regardless of it not being the best.
As for the emptiness, I want to add some instruments to the mix with countermelodies (like the original has) and actually create an alternate melody myself that will play a prominent role.
I might have gone a bit overboard with the reverb on the main rhythmsynth, I'd like to give that one a bit more of a "biting" sound, almost like a Saw Wave.
I don't quite understand what you mean with the instrument around 1:08 though. Do you mean the Moog that plays the lead melody (yes, it's a moog), or the rhythm synth?
All in all, thanks!

- Conian

Meow.

haha, I love that garage band pad. I used it once in an old song. Glad to hear someone actually using garage band to record. Gah, this reminds me of a lot of my old stuff I removed a little while back.

Beautiful piano, nice use of the strings, I love the melodies. Really, this is a nice piece of work you have.

While I didn't necisarily notice the flaws, I did think that some of this was a bit minimal. You can always go back and edit your melodies using the midi creator thingy. With that in mind, I'm a little curious why you didn't go back and add to the drums. This could have benifited from a hi hat rhythm, and a more complex rhythm in general. While one could argue against complexity, I'd say that a rhythm that accents the sounds around it is much better than a rhythm that just accents itself.

I love hearing people use garage band correctly. Rock on.

Cruston responds:

Lol yeah it was a program I use to use. I have some better stuff now that I have been working on. I am making this song a lot better and keeping the melody.

AHHHH

Bah, these short tracks are agrivating, because I want more. I want more so damn badly. I feel like your teasing :P

Another great track with crazy awesome bass, fun drums. Seriously, forget zenon, the speed is incredible... is that a cat at 00:23?

Fuck it, this review is over, I'm laughing so hard it hurts.

StereoTactik responds:

don't talk shit about zenon, or total. and yeah thats a cat.

great little track

haha, I'm loving the sounds. I stopped checking out your page because I figured you were done submitting serious stuff (of course, how serious can a 28 second loop be :P )

Great bass, great drums (that cymbal sounded a little weird to me though.) Gah, such a good little track. Too short to really be repetitive. Too bad this isn't a full track. Question, is that drum fill at the beginning sampled, or did you make that, because it sounds too good :)

Rock on with the dnb!

This is awesome. The bass rocks hard and the drums sound godly. Though yes typically dnb is repetitive as are most electronica songs, but I feel like this track could have used something else. A pro dnb track always has a good build up and a break down (ok, not always, but typically.) Of course, it was short enough to be able to listen to without getting bored.

The mix it self sounds perfect. All the instruments sound the way they should, nothing really sounds like it could work in that aspect. The only down in this song is, like I and the other reviewers stated, the repetitiveness, which is something that can easily be addressed in a follow up remix, something I doubt you plan on doing?

Rock on with the drum & bass.

aha!

Well, it's very clean. I thought it painted a pretty sound. Loved that piano work. Very sassy. The song itself was very repetitive, but that's kind of a given paradigm with electronica. If there's any advice I could give you, it's to vary things up a bit more. Maybe a voice sample here or there, maybe a change in the melody/rhythm more often.

The song is perfect if you were going for a plain old classic dance track. Rock on. I noticed that the song was voted down at a 1, so I threw you a 5.

Karco responds:

Glad you like the quality, it's something I'm getting better and better at! :D The piano work... well, it was old composition, all of it, except for the high part - these days I don't like having a piano playing only in the middle/low ranges, so I had to add a high part to it. ;D

Well, at least you didn't mind the repetitiveness... :P As for varying things up - this isn't a good song for using vocals, as it would break the atmosphere I was trying to set up. And this is a remix of an old song that mostly was made up of bad, so-so composition. I just salvaged the best of it! XD Even as a trance song, though, I can see where you're coming from, especially since you're now the third to mention it. So that means I'm keeping a closer look on that diversity now! ;D

Glad you liked it, thanks a lot for reviewing, and for the 5! :D

Oh hell yes.

I think this is more industrial then techno but it still rocks out. At first I thought it was gonna build into a dnb with that drum sample towards the beginning, but then it went all ambient. GAH, I love this. The sounds are so awesome, the grinding pads, the morphing sounds, the strange rhythms. I love that natureness. It's very natural :P

All I have to say is that this track is a piece of art. Rock on.

ShinDenjin responds:

Why thank you kind sir. It was more an experiment than anything, which was why I kept it out of the public domain for so long.

~Shin

WEEEEEEWEBRTHJRJST

haha, sounds great! Love that voice sample.

Thumping bass, fun synths and pads bouncing/ floating around. This is a really cool track. It's kind of repetitive and ends quickly, but aside from that, there really isn't anything wrong with it. Holly cow, it looped perfectly! I didn't even realize it looped until the voice sample came back around. Bravo :)

rawr!

This song is really cool. I can't knock you for the mono quality. At art school, I have to cut so many good ideas from my projects due to time constraints, so I know where you're coming from.

That voice is perfect. She would have to be a professional? Hmmm, I wish I could sing like that. The morphing bass was really cool. The drums sound perfect. Gah, this is cool. I'd love to hear a re-mix of this, but you stated that's unlikely...meh.

Rucklo responds:

Yeah, Kerstin is more or less professional, I think she's studying to become a teacher, for singing and piano or something like that...

If I ever find the time to, it's not impossible that I re-use the vox and maybe some of the track... who knows...
Thanx alot for the review mate! :)

Hurtful, but kind of funny.

Wow, I feel really bad for this kid, but this song is really funny. My feelings are mixed, so I'll just review the song for what it is aside from the lyrics.

Shit drums, cute synths, aw fuck it, those lyrics are hilarious. This is horribly funny. It's so wrong. What did he do to deserve this?

Lejin responds:

He made a song making male sex backgrounds...lol exposed hahaha

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