Battle of the beats 2005 - III: reviews by 822

My Hope (demo) by MeMpHiS: I like the melody. Its

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Submitted by 822 on Mon, 2005-10-10 22:31.

I like the melody. Its really good. It has me dancing in my chair. Nice gated sounds, that’s trance style FX’s nice to hear that! The drums are powerful sounding and the switching of drums is cool. 


Liquid Flame by Virus & Glitch: Very eerie, right from the

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Submitted by 822 on Mon, 2005-10-10 22:29.

Very eerie, right from the start, nice build up, oh yeah the bass is driving. As the drums duck in and speed the tempo up with the double time hats, that was nice.  The drum buildup works around 2:35.  I liked this one


The false prophet by caldi: It is making my hairs stand

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Submitted by 822 on Mon, 2005-10-10 22:31.

It is making my hairs stand up. Nice job especially on the delays before the drop.  Very hardcore bassline.  Everything sounds clear and fits in well together. And good structure


SunShine by DMJ a.k.a Jossi: Its happy time! I like this

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Submitted by 822 on Mon, 2005-10-10 22:29.

Its happy time! I like this also. Nice delay on the sounds that serve to introduces the groove. Nice melody that carries on from the bells to the synthy-guitar sound, it all goes together well.  I feel the opposition crated by the light sounds battling the bass, pretty cool combination


deep deep blue by crank: Pretty mellow vibe, that

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Submitted by 822 on Mon, 2005-10-10 22:30.

Pretty mellow vibe, that gets things done, with the powerful sounding drums. Nice timing on  how all the parts come into the foreground


Miu by Dave Akuma: This one is pretty cool. 

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Submitted by 822 on Mon, 2005-10-10 22:29.

This one is pretty cool.  The mood for this one is somewhat playful.  Not entirely sinister all the time.  The vocal samples are cool. Nice panning FXs, lots going one to keep one interested.  I think I understand the use of the string stabs, intended to create suspense. I feel that if the notes for the strings were held longer, the effect of suspense could be more pronounced. Holding the note as the rest of the song is muted or stopped. 


Autumn by King Louis: Nice intro and I like how

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Submitted by 822 on Mon, 2005-10-10 22:28.

Nice intro and I like how the bass solos for a bit.  The drums are cool, lots of intricacy, and they serve to build up creating tension and lots of suspense up till 3:25, to welcome in the new bass sounds I like that woo, whaa, woo.  The mood of the track is definitely creating the sensation of impending doom, as to imply for one to be careful there come those high-pitched things to get you


ground live by moonbird: Nice industrial sub intro,

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Submitted by 822 on Mon, 2005-10-10 22:30.

Nice industrial sub intro, sounded like some machine, and panning was a nice touch. And the intro is interesting as well. Now its even better a slow break, I like that.  A lot of sounds competing in the 1st groove, its pretty overwhelming.   I liked the 2nd groove I like a lot more. The breaks are tasty.  Its cool to hear arpeggios, they are fun to use.  The track has many facets, which is cool; things switch up in interesting ways during the breaks.