Krank It by King Louis: so for this round of the

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Submitted by synrgy on Tue, 2007-06-19 00:10.

so for this round of the competition, I'm not home, which means I'm not on my usual speakers, which means I can't comment too much on the finer points of anybodies mixing.

So I guess I'm here to talk about arrangement? Eye-wink

This tune interests me from the beginning.  Great use of samples with the horn section and such.

Maybe it's these speakers, but it seems like your kick drum is virtually non existant.  I know where it's supposed to be, so my brain keeps putting it in there, but I don't actually hear it much at all.  That could use some eq/volume adjustments for sure.  Maybe the drums in general are too top heavy.  Try rolling off some of the top end eq of your break.  I'm not saying it's a sure fix, I'm just saying try it.  I also feel like maybe the bassline needs more midrange, but again that may be the speakers I'm listening on.  (pretty ghetto computer speakers)

The bassline around the 2:45 mark sounds off by a 16th or 8th note.  It sounds like it's INTENTIONALLY off, and I understand that, but I don't think it works.

Everything else here sounds pretty great to me.  Good quality stuff here.  Maybe a little redundant towards the end, like I was expecting a 'fade out' or something, but then again, that's drum n bass, gotta have the outro to mix the next tune in, so you're not losing any points for it.

The intro is where this track really shines.  I would have liked to have seen the breakdown be more similar to the intro, but again, that's not a point loser for you.

My scoring is gonna be different than usual because I can't go over the mixdown much at all, so no two parter, just a simple number:

7 - it's good, I like it, and it's even probably sign-able, but doesn't have enough of that "oh MY GOD" mojo to make it top choice for me.