Score: 9

"aye, change up the bass melody"

submission: Landscapers - Eden

date: November 28, 2009

this woulda been sickness to the max had the melody changed up. all the percussive elements had rises and builds and proper transitions and were just great. but because the melody was so repetitive it fell a bit flat.

besides that, just awesomeness. :)

Score: 10

"impressive yet again"

submission: Landscapers - So Magical (IDM)

date: November 28, 2009

I had blue mood on loop for a while and just had to check out your other stuff. :)

you've got an excellent grasp of ambient melody. just enough notes to set a subtle tone, truly dramatic. :) excellent slicing of your rhythm elements, loved it to death.

only thing I didn't like was that you brought the kick in full force for the roll at 1:27 or so. felt it woulda been better had you brought the volume of the kick from low-full over 2-4 bars instead of just slamming facefirst into the heavy kick right off the bat.

excellent stuff here, man. :)

Score: 10

"sooooo ambient"

submission: Blue Mood [Ambient]

date: November 28, 2009

loved it. everything about it. from the fullness of the decay on the piano to the quick filter cutoffs you do at a minute in.

just... ah, so lovely. :) it feels like the long drive home after working outside in the glorious face of mother nature all day. tired, sore, but fulfilled.

glad I checked your stuff out. :) nice song man.

Score: 9

"you've got talent"

submission: I wanna be Pro (sample)

date: November 27, 2009

sounds really good, bit too much echo on the vocals. sorry if I came across like a jerk on my other review. :) had just never heard anyone rap about video games before. it's a new and different generation comin' up though, so there'll prolly be plenty of it in time. :D

Score: 10

"A-w-e-s-o-m-e-!-!-!"

submission: Helth-MH16: Heaven Is CloseWIP

date: November 27, 2009

Congrats on a truly inspiring collaboration, you two. :) After hearing this I fully expected the original, Heaven is Close, to be an electronic track. To hear that Helth took a beautiful symphonic tune and turned it into some killer house is just awesome. :)

A little over-compressed at times (specifically 2:22 or so, the fullness of the pad goes a little nasty on the ears, around 3:20 or so as wel, bit much) and I don't like how the reverse kick is side-chained, it adds a weird hole to the sound. the rest of this song is just beautiful.

I was gonna give a nine due to the problems but decided they're so minor, and really, you two deserve a 10 on this. :)

Way to go, guys!

Score: 8

"good melodies and rhythm patterns"

submission: Midnight Traveller

date: November 27, 2009

but not your rhythm or synth samples. some of them sounded cheesy, to be honest. :d

the kick could've been a lot deeper and harder. the hats seemed a bit too oldschool. maybe a generated-sound hi-hat would've been more suited. synth hats have a lovely white-noise sound to them that's just great

I like the pad you bring in, though not when you bring the synth back in. they're disharmonious. the pad is playing a new melody, which works as the bridge to what was occuring earlier, but not in tandem with.

it sounds a little busy at 4:00 in. like you've got too much going on in the bass end. and yeah, it's a bit overcompressed too. things are clipping around this point as well.

5:35 is where you should've started the song, imo. :) builds tension right off the bat, which is what you want at start, to draw people in.

a lot of good parts to this song, and some not-so good. over-all, nice stuff. :)

Score: 8

"loved the intro"

submission: I can't feel no pleasure

date: November 27, 2009

but felt you should've built up more with the weird saw bass you had going on. instead you faded it out. :( hehe.

the melodies you went into after the intro were... hmm, I'm not sure. kinda disharmonic. they weren't very pleasing to my ear, sorry to say. :/

I felt that the way the intro was going it was going to develope into some really dirty electro house or something, the direction it went just seemed opposed to the ideas that were generating in my mind I suppose. :)

excellent mastering, even your effects ring through clear, awesome.

my advice for the melodies is try to keep em simpler. :)

Score: 9

"whitest Submission EVER"

submission: Death Knight

date: November 25, 2009

lol, sorry, so geeky. I love it but am curious as to whether this is supposed to be a joke? like, it seems like something lonely island would do in jest... it IS a joke, right?

Right??!?

Score: 9

"aye, coulda expanded the melody a bit"

submission: {Vic} Minding my mind

date: November 25, 2009

use some alternating chords when it's just the piano. would break up the monotony a bit. otherwise everything else is sick. :) nice stuff, man. very laid back, could see some very intelligent rhymes being dropped over top of this.

Score: 9

"drums fall a bit flat"

submission: Jungle Style (WIP)

date: November 25, 2009

the synths you use all shine through crystal clear but the drums seem too soft. with a little bit of mastering this could be quite nice.

I'd also recommend thickening up your bass, like, a lot. :d drum n Bass, after all, ya? :D

killer trippyness though. I like your rhythms too, good beat pattern, just needs to be eq'd/compressed a bit better. :) nice stuff, man.