Age/Gender: 22, Male
Location: Whitby, Ontario
Job: Student/Musician
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9 Reviews | 6 w/ Responses
You're really heating up lately. I listen to a grand total of 3 techno artists: DJ Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, and recently, you. Your songs are, as a whole, getting MUCH better (and they were good in the first place), and this is just keeping up with the trend. Excellent melodies, nice pace, well put together.
Time to make another CD perhaps?
Author's Response:
About that, lots of people have talked to me about buying it, but only like 2 people did.. which pisses me off, because now imoffering a deal, if you add 6$, you get allmy songs(roughly around 40)
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Why the hell are you so underrated? I see only one double-plat and the rest haven't gotten gold though most are very deserving --> Maybe I'm tripping, but I think your work is both very good and very consistant; you can get your own fanbase (same as dimrain47 or paragonx9) if you could get people to just listen to your songs. It took me so long to find you b/c you're all under trance/ambient, make a submission under techno and watch the downloads come flying in.
5/5
Author's Response:
yeah I guess I would get more downloads if I submitted under techno, but this is trance, and im going to stick with it :) , maybe if there is some more decent trance around, people will look here instead of under techno for this kind of music. fanbase would be cool !
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You have your own style... I can't quite put words to what it is yet, but both of your songs are definitely "yours" (this is a good thing). Love the melodies, but again, the synths or something themselves just sound... robotic --> like the MIDI version of a really, really good song. It's holding you back! (Still good stuff though)
Author's Response:
Thanks again. :) Check PM's please.
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I like alot about this song. What I don't like about it is mostly how you've presented it.... Good melody, great vibe, nicely put together and timed.... Crappy instrumentals (mainly the string part.... SO annoying, every note has the exact same tone, but this is noticible in the piano part too as the song progresses). I hope this song isn't done b/c I think it's an excellent base for an even better song.
Anyways, your style reminds me of some of my favourite NG artists, I'd advise asking them (darth_synth in particular, I don't know why but I think he'd help ya :P) how to get that robotic tone out of the synths. Congrats on the gold!
Author's Response:
Thanks for the feedback. Check your PM's.
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I'm more of a trance fan than a techno fan, but you're still my favourite NG music artist. More trance for those of us out there who have been Dimrain-trance-deprived! (I think) This song has huge potential, but even still, it's decent as it is.
(PS you scared me, I thought you left... I started listening to NG audio the day you submitted Midnight Seige)
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Catchy tune... I don't think you've developed it enough!! At the moment, it sounds like a bunch of riffs that have been arranged so they fit together... It needs some more 'filling' for lack of a better term... it seemed like it was just a synth, the percussion, and bass at any given time. Try more synths at the same time? It's still very appealing, it could just have alot more I think.
Author's Response:
Thanks a bunch for the review, I am still using the FL demo so *shrug* I dunno how far I can go with it, I plan to buy it soon xD
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There are two things that I just don't understand about this song.
Firstoff, I'm a musician so I know all about time signatures and other basic stuff like that.... This song is in 4/4 time, but once in a while it skips a beat and resetes back to beat #1...
The first time it does this, it sounds very, very good(24 seconds into song). Sometimes, it sounds like a CD skip (check 1:37)... Mind explaining this to me?
Secondly, why the hell isn't this a diamond track? I've been a spectator on the NG audio portal for years now and I think I've listened to all of the popular songs, and this is undoubtably my favourite. Only possible explanation is that others on the NG can't find this song, its like buried treasure.
(Yes, this is my favourite song. By a longshot.)
Author's Response:
Well this is a cut track from the original. I had to cut it at some please.
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Let me get this off my chest before I explode. I want to give this song a perfect 10 because it really is amazing. If it ended at 3:15, it would be a 10 to me. It's like you switched genres in the middle of the song, and whatever the new one is, I'm not a fan of. (I'm not saying it's bad, just that it's not to my liking.). The song redeems itself around 4:30.
Other than that, a very catchy tune, great beat, all the extra notes are perfectly placed. (Another favourite song)
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I love the opening to this piece, that part is so addictive it could've been repeated longer than it is. It's a bit indistinct but it gives off a good feeling.
Everything is good up until 2 minutes, where the song really takes off.
It gets even better at 3 minutes (where it modifies the part heard earlier in the song... this is definitely the pinnacle of the piece).
My only complaint is that at 4 minutes and 16 seconds into the song, everything falls apart.... I can't stand the high pitched 'thing', but it's not THAT bad because it doesn't last long... That part may have been better if it played something new instead of just repeating other parts from the song.
Overall, by far one of your best songs, a HUGE improvement from many of your previous submissions. (This is now one of my favourite songs.)
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