Hm.
Just cause something doesn't have any chords or melodies, doesn't mean it has to sound weird and wrong. I've heard heard several *real* house songs, and and the melodies didn't sound weird and offish; there's never been anything wrong with writing that sounds right.
The overall arrangement was alright though; there were several parts where you just cut out the drums for no reason, just leaving everything else hanging.
-Zenon
Thanks for the review; the entire point was to avoid any sensical harmony.
I will work on my drumwork moving forward!
Hello.
I haven't heard of you, and I'm sure you haven't heard of me, so hello. I thought I'd stop in.
Really, the only reason why I'm here is to tell you that I'm rather impressed with the quality of this track. Great introduction, great breakdown, great quality, and a pretty nice grinder sounding reese. Kudos for all that stuff.
But the composition in this track is very much lacking. There is next to no variation on the reese, the drums are the standard "bum-pish... bum-bum pish" and so far I only heard one drum fill.
Well, the production was swell. Have a good one.
-Zenon
Yeah, of course i've heard of you!
Thanks for the review, and for being fair! :D
The new version has more drum variation in it, like there are about 14 drum fills, all of which sound completely different in varies from Bum pish bum bum pish to bum pish bum ----- pish to bum pishinfeimvimcicmicmcimcim CRASH CRASH CRAHS osdlosldoldos.
Well maybe not that last one...
Thanks man!
Conor
Mine's also in 7/8 :)
Nifty sounds, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't like em. I'd like to talk about the drum work though; seems like you have just a standard loop going in the background? What happened to the big nicely EQed drums? I would have liked to see some drum variation too instead of that loop.
I'm not talking about the drums solo, obviously. The drums just seemed a little repetitive is all, and it's always a lot of fun to change the pulse. Also, another thing I'd like to mention is the lack of... substance.
You've got a great arp in the background that I like the sound of and a pretty cool sounding sine wave bassline in the background. But there really is nothing else in the song; no segments, no different parts really. All kind of a repetition of itself.
Good work, I liked it. Fuck, I can't even put it into words what this song is missing. I'm so braindead, sorry :(
Keep it easy;
-Zenon
Its true, I started working on this song, and realized, "What am I doing? I'm not even that good at drum and bass, let alone in a strange time signature!" But, I didn't want to drop out, since that would be lame, so I decided I would at least give it my best shot!
Very nice, Nav.
I really like the production value on this track, man. Very clean pad/piano/whateverthehellitis thing in the beginning, made the entire track feel very jazzy. I'm a big fan of the jazzy drum 'n bass shit (I only like the hard stuff every once and a while) so this track was my cup of tea.
I was going to complain about how easy it is to follow the pulse though. I understand that 7/4 is already a pretty simple time signature, but you really could have done some really nifty stuff. 3/4 inside of 7/4 until the pattern resets? You could had the potential to really fuck with some minds here friend :) But now that I look on it, I really like the touch you put on the whole thing. Kudos and very good work.
Keep it easy man;
-Zenon
Thanks! Hm... I didn't intend for it to sound like 4/4-3/4. I tried to make it a coherent 7/4 rhythm pattern. I guess it didn't come across as that... =\
I'm not too sure how I could've fucked with heads, but I will see what else I can come up with in this odd time signature.
Thanks for the review.
I'd just like to review to say
that your melody is a serious twitch case and it makes me feel very uncomfortable :(
8) maybe that was the idea :D
Hmmm.
Give me a second, I wanna give this song a quick little remix. See if I can come up with something pretty :)
Oh, you came up with something pretty alright :D
Fuck man
I can't get enough of that sidechain sound... sounds so rad, especially with that gritty benassi-esque bassline.
And boo for no full version >:(
-Zenon
Once I finish some other songs, this'll be next on the list. :)
Thanks for the review!
The high hats hurt.
Less high frequencies in the hats plz. Moar high mid instead... :(
Good work though. Quite a nifty track. The arrangment felt like it started getting random around the 2:40 mark. Oddly placed synth stabs and just weird drum programming and the like.
Make everything more recognizable and cleaner. Keep it up though;
-Zenon
Ok, thanks for the review!
Dude.
OK, so everything sounds nice and pretty. Stop using such lame sounding synths, though! I know you can get nice sounds out of a 3Xosc, so stop using just a plain square or a saw wave form plz.
Really. You're getting ridiculously good, though. Just if the synth sounds lame, change it!
-Zenon
I'm not exactly creative when it comes to synths. But I should have decorated that one more, true. Thanks for the review :D
Gah.
8th note and 16th notes against triplet patterns on the piano? Really, the song just sounds weird and it's not full in any way at all... just a piano and a snare drum.
Sounds like there's not a lot of effort put into the song as a whole; since it's so short, you should have been able to stick a lot more things in there.
-Zenon
You should see what I've told the others already, there was no effort put into this at all. I spent 30 minutes in piano roll just messing around with FL Keys, I have no reason why so many people seem to enjoy it. I uploaded a newer piano sample and just some reverbed snare which only took an extra 10 minutes at most.
I'm surprised you're the first to notice in a review the clash between the notes and that triplet, I always knew it was there and I didn't bother fixing it on the re-upload since people didn't seem to care.
Thanks for the review.
FACE
Age 32, Male
Saskatchewan, Canada
Joined on 4/18/05
Harbinger (club mix) 
