Score: 10
"*JUDGE REVIEW - MAESTROSORROW*"
date: February 22, 2006
Zenon's Monoxide
Faction 2
Originality : 17
Diversity : 18
Clarity : 19
Effort : 18
Melody : 18 +1
Overall : 91
Originality:
It has a very clean, semi-industrial, and pure Trance air to it. Its not the most original thing i've heard, but it is extroardinarily well brought together. There were many points where it stood out, and was unique.
Diversity:
This song is just writhling around with so many sounds, so many effects and you've woven them well together. The fact the song jumps from voice to voice so effectively didn't hurt either ^^.
Clarity:
Now on my earphones, there was some distortion, especially near 3:30, where you had that really low bass thing going. However these are mediocore earphones, and i'm sure some better quality earphones would have been able to handle them. So I didn't hold it against you.
Effort:
You have put a really good amount of effort into this song, and I can hear this quite easily in the song, with the intensely strange, yet enticing beat you have going on throughout the whole song.
Melody:
The beat is pretty basic, and effective, but after 3:47, you bring in that really neat melody with that nice synth, which really was the cream of the cake.
Overall impression on me:
I personally did not like that clap like sound you had going on for the majority of the song. It sounds like a cross over between a clap and some static :P. However the fact you kept it constant added its own stability to the song, so that was okay.
I enjoyed the flangers you used here, well placed, and well used.
I am very impressed with the structure of the song, and it makes for a great dance song ^^. I don't know if this is more Techno then Trance, it also has some interesting Dance elements.
As I mentioned earlier I adored the part after 3:40 when you begin to introduce that new melody, it was very unexpected and very catchy, picked me up right away. And this is why I gave the +1 to the melody ^^
Great stuff Zenon, thank you for joining the contest and giving us this piece!