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[CJO:Quick Assassination]

Soothing assassination.

I can picture a story behind this one... the man can't choose whether he wants to do it or not, he stutters, he loads the gun, he starts to think. He has his target in sight, but he began to think about what this could do to his life, his future. He sits there aiming, pondering over his targets perfect life. His happy life. And then his finger slips... and then the thought is gone. The mans life is gone. People are screaming, and he only has to finish the job. So he shoots several times, hides his body under some blankets that are nearby, and hides in the shadows until the police arrive. He must now live a life in the shadows, or pay an expensive price... death.

Great song, I really liked it. The soft synths and the magnificent break in really worked with each other. Keep it up!

[CJO:The Falls]

Very slow

I like. The reverse guitar/synth sounds you have in the beginning are very nice, they add up for a very nice ambient track. Maybe instead of breaking in the full time drums, double time them. Make them slow, and break into that little groove you have later with the square lead. It would add a bit more groove, me thinks. Some wind FX wouldn't hurt (high resonance 3X0sc with lots of delay and reverb with a rising filter cut) just so it could add a litle bit more of a 'build' feel when a build is comin' up.

I like the drum work you put into this one a lot. Good work, I am impressed. Keep it up!

Could you drop by my audio page and drop a review or two? I'd appreciate it =D

[The Pants of Eternal Darkness]

Distorted leads rock

The lead sounds like a 303 lead. Magnificent.

The melody is very well written, and you've got some Streamline influenced basslines goin' on here =D Awesome!

This song is very diverse, with some very nice drum work! I am personally very impressed with this piece of music, even though I have one very small complaint, but fixing it would make a world of difference.

When the main beat breaks in, I was like, 'daaaammmnnn' but the drums ruined the mood, man. Not the whole kit, just the offbeat hi hat. Its closed! =O Use as OPEN hi hat sample instead of a closed one, and you'll get much better results =D

You are doing an awesome job! Keep it up! Could you drop by my audio page and review a song or two? I'd appreciate it =)

cornandbeans responds:

oh man! i tried out what you said, and the song sounded much better! thanks for the advice! I'll check out some more of your work, I really liked what I have heard so far!

~cornandbeans

[DJ Enthalpy- Thermal Decision]

Crowd samples?

Honestly, in my opinion, you must be racked for ideas if you have to use crowd samples... leave those for when you actually get to play live =D

The song itself is pretty dancey, and I swear to GOD that I heard that melody somewhere else before... oh well. Its good and catchy. Whwn you break in the bassline with that melody, you don't do too many bassline changes. Its one steady note. Might be good if you changed it, like, letws say you are playing a C. Then you'd go down to G or something, and probably up to A#. Just an idea.

The overall song is good, it just needs a little bit of work. You did a really god job though.

Keep it up! Could you drop by my audio page and leave a review or two? I'd be grateful =D

[Trunked]

This song is as sexy as

a model lying on her side on your freezer. Hot.

The drums are awesome, even though I would have liked more less chaos in the beginning, and more chaos at the end >=D

As for the bassline, I honest to god don't really like it. I would like a chill bassline. Just instead of '16th note 8th note 16th16t16th note etc etc' you could have just had a chilled offbeat bassling. 'm not talking about techno bassline offbeat like, I'm talkin offbeat. Like, make it slow, but offbeat. So it gets yo' head movin' =D

You did a nice job, creating this chaos for my humble mind and ears to frolick in.

I made a new song... already =P Could ya check it out?

dj-padman1 responds:

I broke into the neighbours medicine cabinet before I made this one, so the results speak for themselves!
Thanks for the review...it was mainly meant to be an experiment with drums. The bass was designed to be uncomfortable!
If you have new material out, I'm there! :P

[Reach the Sun- REMIX]

Very dancey

As cliche and repetitive as this song is, I honest to god think that it would do good on the dance floor. It sure would get some feet movin :D

It just needs some breaks here and there, some drama, and some vocals, and this song wold be a winner.

But I do agree witt eh colour. Add some FX, try to make the song more clourful.

Great work, keep it up! Check out my music sometime =D

[Mind Fuck]

Nice bass synth

The first thing that catched my attention with this song is the bassline. The note on the 3rd bar of the bass riff is a little offtune in the beginning. Might wanna consider changing that.

The rest is good. I would just consider making more catchy things, y'now? Like, a good old 303 riff that just gets your head bobbin.

You hold a lot of promise =) Good luck in the future! Keep it up! Could you check out my audio and leave a review or two? I'd appreciate it =D

[Don't Lose Touch [Not Broken]]

Catchy litle beginning

I like the little instruent you have going on.

My one complaint in this entire song (cause its god, i only have one complaint =D) and its with the clap.
Its not high ended enough. Like, through a reverb and a parametirc and EQs it in 15K section. Then yuou'd have a good old powerful clap.

Good work, the melody is good =D

Keep it up! Could you do me a favor and review a song or two of mine? I'd appreciate it =D

[Aqua Zone]

I like the melodies a lot!

Seriously, this song is very catchy. You should consider using the slide tool more often xD

I have two small complants with this song though (Don't worry, I can always pick out ONE flaw in a song with my amazing powers of perception lol) and they are the drums and the bassline.

The drums are 'kick kick kcik ki-kick'. It can just be 'kcik kick kick kick', so that it adds a good amount of groove to the song. A clap at every second beat scound't hurt, same with adding a crash at every 8th beat or so.

And the bassline... there was none? =( A bassline would not only make the song more solid, it would add more groove to the drums.

Keep it up! Your doing a really good job!

k-m-g responds:

Thank you so much for the critique!

[Into The Sky]

very trancey beginning

I like the syth. When you bring in the snare roll, it is about 10X too loud... turn it down a bit =(

Other than that the rest of the song is good. You just need to expand on the drums and the synthwork a bit, and you'll be a winner =)

Keep it up the good work! Could you drop by my audio page and drop me a review or two? I'd appreciate it =D

k-m-g responds:

Okay, gotcha! Thanks for the comments.