Score: 9
"*Scrambles for the volume dial*"
date: October 10, 2009
Wow, this is a really cool song, if not just a little, erm... loud. Other than that, this really impressed me.
The melodies, as you said, are really awesome, and catchy enough to stick into my head for quite a while. You really chose a good song to remix. The saw lead you used here was really cool, and drove the song to a very fast-paced feel. What I liked a lot over here was your use of that sound effect which plays at the beginning along with the saw lead, it fit really well with the song.
The transitions were well done too, and I heard quite a few reverse cymbals and effects to transit from one melody to another. Good song structure too; this definitely was nowhere close to repetitive. I just don't like the length of this song. I don't know if it's this long in the original since I didn't hear it, but even if it is, you could give some more length by throwing in a solo, maybe some buildups, and even adding a few of your own personal touches to the melody giving it new notes here and there. This is varied really well, so repeating the main melody a few more times (maybe with different instruments in the /third/fourth repetitions as well) wouldn't hurt. I liked the intro, the effect started the song up really well, and so did the reverse cymbal after, plus this looped perfectly, with a nice effect at the end.
Drums weren't that special, but they did the job just fine over here. They weren't varied much, but had good samples and fit nicely with the loop, and that really isn't much of a problem because this is so small, although if you were to make this longer, be sure to introduce some counter drum beats.
This is a really good remix, and I enjoyed it a lot. Practically, the only small problems which made me give you a 9 was the length and the slightly too loud volume. Keep up the great work!
9/10
5/5
-Review Request Club-
October 26, 2009
Author's Response:
Thanks for the review! I appreciate your time.
I usually do better with shorter compositions and loops because they're easier to manage, and one doesn't need to spend so much time inventing variations. I'm not surprised you're not blown away by the drums, they're mostly built in FL studio loops, which is what I default to for some parts of my songs. I didn't really put a lot of work into the percussion this time... I'll work harder on that for my next release.
