Am I the only one that loves the repetition lol

This song was well produced, but didn't have much in the form of variety. It was still enjoyable to listen to.

Progressive... House.... Prouse..?

For what's here, I think it sounds really nice, everything sounds like you'd expect it to, and nothing really forcefully steals the spotlight from anything else. And I think this'd be a great opening for a house show to get everyone warmed up.. so to speak.

Unfortunately, this is horribly repetitive and by the end... honestly, I was bored out of my mind. I know Progressive House is supposed to be like "Build ups!!!!"... but I think you over did it on this one. The build ups were cool and everything, but nothing ever followed them... except another build up. I kept expecting some awesome rise in the music to do the build up justice, but it never came... the song ended, and I was left entirely unfulfilled.

Overall... sounded nice, but never really went anywhere. 6.5/10

This is an NGADM Round 1 Review.

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What could've been a really fantastic house track here is unfortunately overshadowed by a lot of unnecessary repetitions and absurdly long progressions. You're a crazily good house artist, but you need to work on your variety!

First off, I think the production overall is very good. The small percussion is crisp and snappy, the main drums are punchy and that kick especially sounds good, and of the synths are top-notch. Everything sounds great, even if you've got a few generic influences in your sounds. Really cool sub-bass by the way. It's easy to hear and adds a lovely amount of juiciness to the track. You've also got some really subtle details here and there which I highly appreciated. Both the sound effects and the synths themselves were great, so good work in that department.

However, as you might've guessed from now, this track is just too repetitive. I understand that this genre is inherently repetitive, but when it gets to the point that I start to lose interest, then clearly there's a problem. The problem is that you over-hype buildups by making them too gradual and then when the buildup reaches its peak you disappoint us with another fairly low-key beat. I'm talking particularly about the part at 4:00, for example.

What I'd suggest doing is creating more melodic material in this track. The main theme of the track seems to come up in the middle section (and by the way, it's a really cool motif). I'd highly suggest basing it off that little melodic phrase that you repeat. I'd also suggest shortening the sections that include repetition and making the buildups shorter.

To recap; you're very good at making house tracks. Just work on that repetition!

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SCORE:
7/10

Here is your personal review for your round 1 submission! Remember that the score might be a little lower than I would normally give, I'm being a tad harsher than I'd normally be for the NGADM.

Okay, before I get into the meat of the review, I'm going to have to comment on that little bit between you and glimpee. I know shit about music. I don't know shit about crafting synths and can't fully tell custom-made synths from presets. When I first heard this, I didn't know you made EVERY synth from scratch. The mix, I could hear the effort, but still.
Now, the review.

The Good:
-Your sounds are awesome. It's really chill and laid-back.
-I LOVE the nice calm section at around 2 minutes in. Appreciate the bird sounds in the background, they sound really natural and peaceful. Around there, it sounds more like a calming forest grove soundscape rather than a prog house track. Honestly, if you had made an entire song based off of that, I would really have loved that.
-The mix is great as I kinda said before the actual review.
-Transitions are great, I could feel what was coming before it actually came, which is a very good thing.

The Not-So-Good:
-Alright, gotta agree with glimpee on this one. At about a minute in, it really does need *some* kind of release better than what you had. As it is, immediately after that buildup there was pretty much nothing. Dissappointed me quite a bit.
-Now, the main thing that really, REALLY kills it is a very very common failing of progressive house tracks. "unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce" There's a really common failing of progressive house tracks. There's a really common failing of progressive house tracks. In case that didn't illustrate it, I'll clear it up - waaaaay too repetitive. Sadly, this does fall prey to that. I understand what you were going for, and I understand that the intro is designed more for DJs in mind, but this is for the NGADM, right? Not as much for DJs to mix between other songs. What this song could really use is a bit more variation and a quicker buildup (or more to keep people interested while it's building up).

Overall: Yeah, I liked this, it has a groove like most progressive house/trance/whatever tracks have. But with the groove comes the other problem as I had said. Until there's more variation in the music and more ideas in it, I really don't have that much to comment on. Due to the insane amount of repetition repetition repetition repetition, I'm going to have to give this a 6/10. I do appreciate the effort in the mix, and hearing that you made all your own synths, I appreciate that as well. But mixing and sound design is only half of a song, the composition needs to also be really good to have a truly amazing song.