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This is definitely missing any kind of melody. I mean, even having some slightly more pitched percussion, if you want to keep it percussive, would have helped. Or as you're trying to emulate being trapped in the Internet, perhaps a few more automated synths, or glitch sounds, or just things more reminiscent of the electronic nature that is the Internet, and maybe sounds that signify the different popups and things he's trying to fight.

This has got a pretty solid (albeit generic) structure, but I think that's where you hit a problem because most of the instruments, once they're playing, are playing for the whole thing, so it starts to feel repetitive very early on, I think you could have done with messing with the transitions a little more to give it more variety; that bass beat went on throughout, seemingly unchanged, and got old very fast.

I think the fact that this just does have no melodic part to it at all is a major detriment to the track. Even just a simple bass line would have helped, and that would have given you a bit more scope to maybe do an even heavier/faster drum beat once you have something melodic to rest it over. It's good work on the track, but it could use some improvement to make it more listenable to.

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Not bad...

I don't really like minimal, but this song was alright. It lacks enough excitement or melodic elements to keep the listener interested, but it's a pretty good House song in general. Not a bad job with this. By the way, this doesn't fit with the name much, IMO, but a song name won't affect my score ^^.

The melodies and instruments, hm... my first complaint would be that there are no melodies or melodic instruments playing; just percussive sounds. I know this is Minimal, but heck, even Minimal songs have some ambience, a few subtle melodies too. If you added loads and loads of sound effects (such as sweeps, maybe some computer-type sound effects too) around the song, then alright, at least the sound effects can keep the listener interested, but just percussive sounds aren't enough to keep the listener interested, or at least they aren't enough to keep me interested anyway... Add some sound effects, maybe a few vocal samples too, since there is such a thing as too minimal...

You know what might make this song better? I'm not sure, maybe I'm being a bit biased, but maybe the addition of Windows (preferrable XP, those sound the best :D) sound effects actually playing melodies and mixing together might make this better. I'm not really the one to suggest this (I made a whole 5 songs which incorporate Windows sound effects), but you could experiment a little. I like your story of the guy who defies the Internet and has to fight pop-ups and viruses; it's a cool concept, so maybe Windows sound effects will fit with it. By Windows sound effects, I mean stuff like the 'Critical Error' sound effect, the 'Ding' sound effect, maybe even the 'Pop-up Blocked' sound effect which will fit with your story.

You can even see if there are any antiviruses which make a sound when they find a virus (such as Avast's "A virus has been detected") and use those too. Stuff like this could really spice up the song and make it more interesting to listen to. PM me if you want any Windows sound effects, by the way (I have sound effects from Windows 2000, XP, Vista (Beta) and Vista).

The transitions are all perfect, I definitely won't complain about them. You introduced new elements to the song gradually, and removed elements gradually too, which provided perfect transitions and great buildups too. Maybe that's the best part of this song; you introduce/remove a variety of elements to the song so the listener is always interested to see what you will remove from or add to the song, whether it's the cymbals, whether it's the snare/clap, etc...

The structure, unfortunately, is extremely simple. Sure, it works well: Start with a sub-bass, build up, reach a climax in the middle of the song with loads of stuff playing together, build down and end up back with the sub-bass. Still, it makes the song quite predictable; you know what will happen next. I mean once you reached the climax you started removing stuff from the song, and then I instantly knew that after every 2 bars something's going to be removed. What I'm trying ot say is, although the structure is alright, it's predictable. Variety was good, because there were loads of different elements in the song to listen to. Intro and outro were basically the same thing but they were both fine.

The drums are well done. I really liked your beats; when it comes to the rhythm you had some original and non-generic rhythms. The drum samples, if not a slight bit generic, are fine to. Good job with the drums but as you already know, my complaint isn't that the drums are bad since they're great, but that there are ONLY drums.

Overall this is a decent song. It has its pros and cons. Its biggest problem would be that it lacks melodies, instruments, effects and/or vocal samples, therefore making it a bit boring to listen to. I don't know if you agree with me, but I think that the addition of some melodies, even subtle or ambient melodies, would do wonders for this submission. Anyway, good job with the song in general, keep up the good work and sorry for the long review.
7/10
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Sounds cool.

3/5 - 7/10

Sounds cool if you did this in fruity loops, would you mind sending me a copy and I'd like to try some of my VSTs on it to see what I can do?