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[i2 - Its A Dream (remix)]

sounding great

Woah, dude, Euro is here to stay! Really upbeat and energetic. You've mixed that bass in there really really well. And its playing quite an original pattern, a pleasant change from the usual I'm used to hearing.
Very crisp, solid beats. You've programmed those transitions in with a lot of skill. Good crashes and rolls, yes..nice!
Ok, into the vocals, well mixed and go in perfectly with your rhythm and synths.
Nice, surprising us with a bit of 3 step goodness. You really know your stuff man, I'll give you that much.
Once again, digging those awesome transitions. I'll have to copy some of your moves! :)

Keep it up man! Great effort here. really polished and sounding full.

Only thing I wouldn't mind seeing would be maybe cutting up the vocals a bit and messing around with them a bit more? Like reversing a vocal phrase and using that as a roll or something, thats always the icing on the cake for me.

This is going to go gold I reckon. (at least!)

i2abbitz responds:

yea, tried to make it super energetic.
and i love that 3 stepped goodness! lol
thanks for all of your comments and i hope at least one of my tracks go gold.
500 dls is gold right? cuz my pictures of you remix is only a hundred away!!!!

[moderntragidy (2nd half)]

Awesome

Damn! Exactly what I'm in the mood for. Loving the awesome cut up breaks and the bass is water tight. Great intergalactic pads zooming into the next universe and then over the other side of our parallel moon.
Love the tangled, confused guitar. Excellent vocals. Thats the trademark Ped grandeur we all know and love. Very nice minimal percussion.
Very unique with that orchestral sounding drum with your cool chopped up breaks. That synth suits perfectly.
Digging the bassline that follows, but with a rap like that, I feel like I really wanna know what the dude is saying. Still, I can dig it.
Nice evolution, I give this 2 thumbs up. Part 1 got 3 thumbs though, I think you really excelled yourself there mate.
Top effort here, I'll be waiting for your next tasty morsel. And get that slacker Splagawaga to upload some more goodness soon k?

Hey., you played this down at your local?? Nice man, how'd it go down? Were you choppin stuff up on your laptop or what?

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

thanks for the review oz,
the vox over the end are as follows-
'jesus christ i'm flying, no i ain't lyin, pupils dilated like gates to hades, gief my shadeys, and pass my hat and my tie, i'm ready to hit the floor so come and laugh at the fool who's sketching out like a tool. and join me if u please and don't u call the police cos no1 needs that when they're spooning out, so grab my hat and my tie...'
wagas started a full time job now with an hours travel at each end so he hasn't had time to hob-nob around here, has been making a bunch of music tho, i'll poke him with a stick for ya.
me and wags were on fairly early, there weren't that many people there but we both had a few random people dancing. no tweaks either, was too many people to set things up for livenessness, was a matter of giving a C.D to the dude.
respec,
;ped

[Mutation-1st Stage]

excellent work

Man, thats cool! The drums are really excellent, heaps of energy and variety. The bassy kind of riff you've got is cool, wouldn't mind something a bit lower though.
Nice chord progression with the arp, and good production when you drop everything out for a second and then bring the beat and bass back again. Great extra percussive elements and those rolls at the end are really pleasing.
Very good work, you've impressed me. Only complaint, I felt that some kind of lower, more driving bassline would really help this track.
At the start, that extra synced sounding extra riff was really cool, that would have sounded awesome playing more often I reckon.
Keep it up mate!

AphelionX responds:

ha ha lol thanx im gettin there

[_-={An Ambitious Spirit}=]

outstanding

Lets take a look...I always look forward to your tracks.
Extremely nice chord progression at the start, I'm loving the low horns. I really envy your ability to harmonise everything so perfectly.
Nice transition into the choir part, I love that epic feel. Sounds a little bit like we're in the war room of a Venetian doge with that rapid plucked kind of sound. Very cinematic!

The next part, I'm not so sure about, its seems a little bit 'stop and start'. Perhaps what you intended.
The next section is on the money with that wonderful solo violin, definitely the highlight of the track for me! The momentum and the co-ordination of the elements really stands out as professional. I love the drive of the horns leading into the next section with that relentless pulse of strings and the timpani, thats the stuff! Would have loved a bit of choir action at the conclusion though.
Great job as always. Keep producing like this.

MaestroRage responds:

The transition into the string stabs was as you mentioned a little abrupt, but this was part of the image I formed in my head for the song.

After all when you are faced with an opponent, you are never truly aware when they'll charge you right ;)?

A choir you say eh? Now there's an idea. I really should have considered it, but on the other side of that coin a choir tends to overpower, unless mastered and equalized very carefully, and i'm not going to lie and say I have those skills yet. One day!

Thank you for the review and continued support padman, always a pleasure to see from you. I'm glad you enjoyed the piece ^^.

[VOICED UNDER THE STARS. (Full)]

love it

lets take a look.
Hmm..classy stutters and excellent drum programming.. I love those computer glitches and that sweep into silence. Classy!

Wow, very impressive. Gets even better.

Gets pretty hectic, woah, excellent rapid sweeping sequence. Sounds like an epic battle between an army of laptops or something! Excellent breaks and you tame the chaos extremely well.
A lull....
back to the action!
This must have taken an extremely long time to make, my hat really does go off to you, this is pretty amazing. Tasty conclusion.

What software are you using if you dont mind me asking? Absynth 3 in there by any chance?

P.S Man, you didn't vote for my track!

P.S.2 This place is deserted lately hey?

patternapparatus responds:

thanks, man! good to hear coming from an artist like yourself.
i use FLStudio4 and cooledit D:
also, my apologies- i'll go vote your track way up there.
[easy]

[moderntragedy]

now THIS is your best

You continue to impress me senor Ped. The breaks are seriously classy. Interesting intro, you really built up the opening well around the initial idea. Love the deep square + squelchy bass combo. Wicked. Oooh, Theremin...there for a min.
Ahh, the highlight of the track would have to be the section with your keys. Damn, thats tasty. Extremely captivating chord progression, and the beats are nice and fluid. The voices weaving in and out really add a unique Ped touch. Love the jazz/bluesy stylings when you start the affected Daft Punk style vox. Is that lo-fi + something else? I've always wondered how that was achieved.
Nice you gave us a 50/50 of affected and natural. Yep, I'd be pretty happy with myself if I made this track, really stands out as professional. The attention to detail and the way you've built it up so it stands as a real musical creation is something to look up to I reckon. Really well thought out arrangement.
This belongs in a commercial release I think, you might consider sending some of your recent tracks to them. And when you get paid send me a present ok? :)

P.S Do you use the EMU TurboPhat for your percussion in this one?

snoballandthmonyshot responds:

damn, i keep raising the goddamn bar, stop hailing stuff as my best, is a lot of pressure for my next haha. k, is a lot to respond to here (just wrote this whole response then closed the cocking window)
the keys; if u hadn't noticed my last few tracks have had rhodes in them. wintang sent me over an ickle vst and it's ruined me for anything else now, it's so damn nice u could put in any old shite and it would sound delectable.
the DaftPunk vox are just pitched up an octave then stuck through a ringmod, simple, then offset the clean vox. sounds quite nutty ambiguous.
'really stands out as professional', this really surprises and tickles my bag... i have a comlex about my production value, nothing ever seems to sit completely right and is the main thing that bugs me about my tunes. it gets so hard to have an objective ear when working ur own tunes, u get saturated and dunno if it sounds good or crap, well i do anyhoo.
'Really well thought out arrangement' haha, im such a fraud. this is another track that i started and progressed with
completely haphazzardly. if i tried to plan a track b4 i started i think it would end up sounding contrived and rigid. this way all parts are functional at the time, the tune takes on a mind of its own and produces invetiveness that i could never invent if that makes any sense at all.
anyways, thanks for listeneing again
;ped

oh, drums=kontakt
tubular bells, woodblock, chimes and gong = edirol orchestral

[Flounder]

outstanding

Wow, a level of quality rarely seen around here. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this track. Really sweeps you away, I read some controversy about the beats, I actually think they're really effective, something I look at as an example of the beat done right in fact. Especially the cymbals at the transitions and the panned shaker interlacing the eighth note hats. KB has a point though, some extra glitchy elements would sound awesome.
The ringing valvy overdrive sound really appeals to me, just on the verge of being disruptive but staying more or less serene.
Excellent pads and strings, don't have a lot of time to elaborate but the bottom line is I'm impressed, I'll definitely listen to your others as well.
Keep up the excellent work man.

pitbulljones responds:

'a level of quality rarely seen around here'.

you've got to be joking right? you have to be. theres loads of fantastic stuff on here, far better than mine. i think if it had a vocal it may be what u said tho XD

'an example of a beat done right'

jesus fucking h christ on a motorbike. me an example of how to do drums right? again you have to be joking. have you listened to some of my other stuff. all this is is taking a bit of time and thinking about how drums work. I'd love to put some glitch in but unless someone is gonna help me out with a tutorial or summat i don't think it's gonna happen.

anyways i'm glad you enjoyed the track, i try to please. and thanks for taking the time to review and listen.

pitters

[Khuskan - Midnight]

tasty to the max

Somebody knows how to use Reason!?! Forgive me if I'm wrong.
Very lush and professional arrangement. Very pleasing jazzy, loungey style that still manages to be upbeat and energetic throughout.
Excellent fx and sweeps in the intro, very nice into your cool drumloop. Very nice ride cymbal.
Cool brass stabs and funky bass, I like! Very UK, maybe from a movie like Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels.
Anyway, very nice, I enjoyed this one, a cut above!

Khuskan responds:

Indeed, this is reason, though API still far surpasses my reason skills so make sure you go check his audio out ;-)

Since I'm british, I supose that does give good reason to be a UK sound. So much the better, i say!

[DJ Comet-Evershine]

Seriously great

Very nice work indeed Comet. Very pleasing and powerful guitar rocks along nicely. Sounds like you might be a bit of a Crystal Method fan? :)
Beats well mixed and enough variety to keep it interesting although I think I know that loop from a few of your other tracks!
I like the breathy sounds and the cool synth and how they interact after the main heavy part. True breakbeat sylin there, no doubt about it.
Liked it heaps, but in the end it did tend to repeat itself a bit much. Still, a very enjoyable listen.
Keep up the good work!

TheComet responds:

The Crystal Method = <3 :P

Thanks for the review, I can't wait until I finish some of my new stuff, I've been playing modulation lately ;)

[Joyrider]

sweet!!!

Man, thats awesome. It's got the same 'straight ahead' feel of a Daft Punk track. It was pumping the whole way through and only got better. Really excellent stuff! It would really do the business on the dancefloor I reckon. Very nice fill into the last part with the cool 'barking dog' synth. Delicious.
I'm jealous, nicely done sir.

KaiSun responds:

glad you liked it man, been hearing some good house lately so thought id try my luck. thanks for your consistent reviewing efforts. talk to u later