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[Rig - Sol Food (3min version)]

Relaxing

Wow, this is an amazing song. I like the drums very much and the atmosphere in the song is perfect.
I like the instrument/synth choices too!
Well, i can't really hear anything misplaced or anything that could be better. But i'm going to listen to it again now :-)

The intro is really good and drags you into the song. That's exactly what an intro should do ^^
When the hi-hat and more synths come it builds beautifully towards the melody and when the melody comes in... that's just amazing!
I like how you give the main synth a little break now and then, like it's tired and need to rest a little.
I'm listening to this track for about the 5th time now and it's still beautiful.

Great job on this song!!! :D
10/10
5/5

[[AltS] - Cet Air]

Funny :D

I can't find a better word than ''funny'' to describe this song. And that's not negative, but extremely positive :-)
Now i'm going to listen to the song again and see if i hear anything that could be better. I didn't hear anything to improve the first time i listened ^^

When the song starts you immediatly hear the quality of the song. You also hear the mood of the song and that's very good :-)
Also, the song is NOT repetitive. Actually, it's far from repetitive and you did a very good job on that.
All the synths and little sounds work together amazingly!
The song flows really well too.
When you go into the next section (at 01:00) the change is quite big, BUT it is so well timed! Changes can do a song good and this change definatly did that ^^
Then you build things on that section which really gives you the feeling that it's working towards something. And it did! :D
Then at 02:08 you bring another change to the song. This change isn't as well timed as the first one, but it is still very very nice.
Then the end comes...
The end is the only thing in this song that i didn't like. I mean, you hear a synth playing and then it... stops. It just stops. No cool ending effect or no real climax.
The best thing i think you could do here is to change the last note an octave plus a few notes higher and hold that note a little longer and fade it out. Don't fade it out too slow, but not too fast either, just do what feels right.

All in all, you're getting a 10/10. I know, i should give you a 9/10, because a 10/10 is a perfect score and i had some critique, but you deserved a 10/10. And i'm serious about that. You can just hear the work put into this song and it really pays of.
So, that was my review. I hope it was helpful to you :D

alternativesolution responds:

:D <--That is my face right now. You have no idea how happy I am :D !
I really, REALLY appreciate your reviews. This one was especially helpful and inspiring :) And I know what you mean about the end. I was iffy..but now I'm not. So, I'm off to fix that >X-]
By morning it should sound better. Thanks so much for reviewing :D

[Late [HH]]

Nice percussion!

But it's lacking... catchyness i think :P
When you make a short song it really has to be catchy :P
Anyway, you did a good job, but it's not your best.
9/10
5/5
MH16

Helth responds:

thanks man, just a little goodie =]

Helth

[Energy Dance]

Nice ^^

You're really good at making dance and this song proves it :-)
Great job and keep it up!
10/10
5/5
MH16

syphonmax responds:

Thanks man

[70X1C]

Cool and... toxic!

What's wrong with FeZaphobiK and Ciuka?
They just don't understand what it's like to me a song like this. And did he say the drums were bad?! I don't believe it!!! The drums are INSANE! Lol, sorry, but i just had to write that in caps :P
Anyway, back to the song.
Well, i think the score says enough. It has a score of 4.49 and that is pretty amazing :-)
Great job on this song Will!

MH16

Marks-a-lot responds:

Will!? this is Brad Pit, haven't you seen my movie Mr and Mrs Smith?

[(DJ-T) Sleeping]

Yay, top 5! :D

And this track totally deserves it!
Really nice work man, i can't think of anything to improve.
5/5
10/10

zenodio responds:

Thanks a lot! :D

Really, i'm so happy about it!

[YRX~vs~MH16~eXogenisiZ]

Hey!

Hey! :D
You did a really good job on building my simple melody into such an awesome song!
I couldn't have done it myself :P
Oh and btw, can you write my name with capital letters? XD
Anyway, 5/5 and 10/10! :D

MH16

YouriX responds:

I am glad you liked it! I guess my hard work paid off :)
And i fixed the name!
And thanks for the comment also!

[Gungaripian]

Well...

I actually have no ideas how to expand it further, but if you're really stuck there are 2 things you could do.
1. Leave this song for what it is and make a couple of other songs first. Then return back to this song and see if you can expand it. If not, repeat the process :P
2. Make this a loop. It sounds great and loops are very cool sometimes too! :D

Well, i hope i helped you a bit. And if i didn't help you then let me take away your dissapointment with a:
10/10
5/5
MH16

Marks-a-lot responds:

Well this song was made because I was stuck on my song "toxic" now I am stuck on this one...lol, thanks for the review though. I am sure I will figure something out soon enough.

[[AltS]- Dry Ice]

Hmmm...

I think this is a pretty hard song to review review :P
There's so much going on and i can't really seperate all the melodies and bass lines. Well, i'm going to try anyway :-)

The 8-bit intro was pretty good. I don't really like 8-bit stuff, but that's just my personal taste. That low bell thing that is playing with it is pretty nice too.
Then the song suddenly explodes. I think a slower buildup fits better here, the low bass and the loudness of the song are a bit overwhelming.
I don't really know how to explain this, but i think that when a listener listens to a song he wants to hear what he expects to hear. Of course surprises can do a song good, but this change was just too much at a time.
Hey, now i know how to say it: the listener has to get used to a song. If you change the song so dramatically so early, the user didn't have much time to get used to the song.

I think that synth that is playing a little melody and comes in at 00:13 should have a higher volume. Not too much volume though, that would throw a listener of his seat :P
Hmmm, it could also be that that bass synth is just too loud...

Then those bells come in and the rest of the song just repeats itself.
At 00:40 the song calms down a bit, but the bass is way too loud at that point. The bass was a bit loud before, but in this part it's WAY too loud.
There's a really strange stutter of the song at 00:46, i don't know what that is :P

At 00:53 the song calms down more and that part is REALLY nice. REALLY nice!
I think that the best part of the song is from 00:53, to the ending. It's just so smooth and easy to listen too.
I love those smooth bells, but the bass is still a bit distorded though. I think a smoother bass would've fit more in this part of the song.
At the end you throw a little reversed part and this time (not like your other song) it's time perfectly and it's just a very good outro.

Conclusion:
This song has potential, but there are too many things holding the song back. An example of that is the bass, which is also the biggest problem. I think you tried to make the bass sound very powerful, but it's too distorded and loud.

Overall i give you an 8,5 out of 10. It's a pity you can't work on this track anymore, because you didn't save it :P

Oh, and don't think that i think that this was a bad song because of this review. I just tried to point out what could've been better ;-)

Keep making those songs! :D

8,5/10
5/5 (i wanted to give you a 4/5, but i didn't because of the low rating :P)

MH16

alternativesolution responds:

Whoa! What a freaking awesome review, man! :D Thanks!!
That's a lot for me to improve on ---yes I know stupid project file>:( And electronic isn't quite my thing..I do relatively few of that kind of stuff, well..except Chippish..that was actually half decent. But yeah =D
This was very, very helpful. But you better start making me crappy reviews..or else I'll be calling you down to review every freaking..err..couple months when I post a song... >:D
[by the way, my speakers have frequency knobs (I don't know if others do?)...and what do you know? My treble knob > bass knob. yeah. >.< so thanks for telling me it was real bassy! now I know xD ]

[[AltS]- Cliske]

Nice bells and melodies! :D

Haha, cool, you make music too! :-)
Well, let's start at the intro.
The intro is pretty nice and smooth, but there's is something i don't like about it. I can't really say what, but i think it's not powerful enough. And with powerful i don't mean loud, a very quiet intro can be powerful too.
Then the bells come in. I really like the sound of those bells and the melody that it's playing is very nice!
You could've made things smoother when the next synth comes in, now it just suddenly pops into the song :P
I love it when that higher bell comes in. It's probably the thing that i like the most about this song. It's so soft and smooth, yet very attention demanding :P
When the violins take over it's like the song stutters every now and then. It's pretty weird XD
The violins are pretty nice though.
To be honest i don't like the transistion to the reversed part at all. The reversed part comes at a really unexpected moment.
But the reversed part itself is pretty nice and original too!

Overall i think that the song is very good, but that it's less enjoyable because of the small flaws here and there. But with or without the little flaws, this song deserves to have a 10/10 and a 5/5 :D

Well, that was my review. I hope that i wrote some things that are helpful to you.

alternativesolution responds:

Lol, 'course I make music! >:P
I'm so happy for some new input, you can't imagine. This did help :3
Thanks for listening! :D:D! And leaving an awesome review <3 !