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[Anaconda]

haha, saw Anaconda/ DNB and immediately thought it was a remix of an old API track.

Slick build up, sounds, amen break... wait... the track just ended. I was loving things but I kind of felt like the track never really climaxed. I can hear the work you put into it but I might have made the rhythms a little more exciting by playing with those drums more. Layer a few shakers in there/ throw in a few breaks to add excitement. A crisp clean kit is just the start. Those hats were just so...

:'C

My big thing with this track is just the fact that it builds so well. Why did the chorus feel so empty? On that note: I'ma go listen to API's Anaconda. Thanks for taking me back!!

(Sorry if that comes off as harsh but I really loved API back in the day. Go listen to his old stuff. Last I heard from him Spor featured him on the Lifted Podcast years ago. Now I can't seem to find him anywhere...)

Sequenced responds:

I guess this track isn't finished then! lol. and yeah, I named it anaconda because of the ending. that's what inspired me. :3

[Veni Sancte Spiritus]

Lovely piece! Judging from one of the last few reviews and the authors comments you don't need me to tell you about the dryness of the recording. Oh well. We've all had pieces with issues we were still incredibly proud of. I over look bigger issues in my own work all the damn time so I'd be a hypocrite to hold anbything against you. The track is still really well done, well written and well sung. Good job Trois!!

Troisnyx responds:

Thank you. <3 While this is a cover, it's one of those pieces I hold to heart: when I first heard it, it was as if light rushed through my veins. Considering this is the Pentecost Sequence... justice or no justice done, I'm just glad and grateful to have sung it.

[Star Bridge(Original)]

I really like it dude! Those hats are high as fuck though. It's not often a mix is muddied up with thin sounds so much as I'm usually pissed off at how much bass things have. Actually, as someone who usually employs too much high end herself I'm kind of impressed. You mixing on earbuds?

Warhector responds:

Thanks very much man! No, I mixed with Fame Studio Monitors and Studio headphones. It was not bad in my ears tho. Are you sure you are not using modified hardware/software? Else thanks for review :)

[[Cnyght Hunter]]

Damn dude, I loved how dark this was. Really feeling the industrial vibes dude. Those bleepy acid trance stab sounds were perfect. I know the point of industrial isn't supposed to be clean but I felt like if there was anything this song could have benefitted from it was slightly better mixing. Aside from that it's a really sick track. I love it dude.

So dark :3

DESHIEL responds:

I'm still bad at filltering bass ;D

[Submerged]

Awesome awesome awesome. That intro had a really chill vibe to it. The drums were spot on. As I'm listening to the track I have to say that I'm most interested in those evolving drum patterns.

I might have dropped the vocals just a tad in certain spots. In certain places those vox are fucking perfect though. Love it! This track is killing it.

motakay responds:

Thanks! Really warming to hear! Spend alot of time programing the drums in natural patterns. :)
Yes, I am sure you are right, I tried to mix the voice as even as I could and listening through different speakers and headphones, but its so hard to get an overall and even level to the vocals.

[Nav - Relevation]

Damn dude those choppy drums were really special. I was fricken digging the spastic beats! Really out there and experimental. I thought the vocal samps came off as lazily pitch bent but dude: I'm the biggest god damn hypocrite on the face of...hmmmm. You know. Fill in the lol.

Also, only 8 hours? Fuck man, I wish my tracks would pump out like that again. Fucking creative energy karma :p

Nav responds:

"only" 8 hours? :( That's 8 hours of time spent in the DAW just moving shit around, at least according to FL Studio. This track took me at least a few weeks, and it was the only thing I made in like 5 months =\ it's more a testament to my lack of creative energy during that period. I also got a few false starts but nothing really ever came of those.

Thanks for the review :) Experimental was the goal!