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I can see this in a flash submission. It almost has a chaotic chiptune feel to it. There is a whole lot of stuff going on right off the bat. You did a good job building it up quickly and stayed at a constant flow. Good job at synchronizing those beats together. I liked how you put everything together in the long run. This would be really nice in a flash submission where an astranaut travels through space, entering and exiting intricate planet systems and star clusters exploring vast alien civilizations and shrinking down to a microscopic level where he rages war with the omebas in his tiny white cell space ship. It would go something like this...

Somewhere above where nothing else lies, a small boy ponders on a moon. Her thinks to himself and wonders about the mysterious darkness that surrounds him and his single bed night light. "Hmm," he thought to himself, "I wonder what sort of amazements lie above and beyond the horizon." He gets out of bed, runs to the other side of his small world, and pulls some small levers on a little brown panel. A light blue rocket ship rises out of the ground and sucks him inside. "Im going to see whats out there". He presses a few numbers on his key pad and the rocket ship blasts off into the abyss. For a few moments, there is nothing but the red and orange trail of his rocket thrusters.

Then, off in the distance, a group of colorful entities comes into view. He adjusts his glasses and peers at the cluster of color. His eyes widen as mass amount of planets and rocks, from gigantic green and red orbs, to small grey and brown mounds of clay, pass his ship in a beautiful dusty cloud of gas. Purple rings, white flickers of light, blocks and spheres and octagons and octahredagons and octopuses and odd things to strange things to weird things to normal things, a ice cream truck, a yo-yo, a man with a guitar smoking a cigar next to a sleeping elephant upon a mound of gold, a dwarf with an axe, a cat on a curtain, a goldfish in a bowl, and many, many more things of all sorts of sizes float all around him and the planets and stars he dreamed of. Oh, what an amazing sorts of things he saw!

This song gives a great visual for a story. I love it. Keep up your good work :)

This is an NGADM Round 2 Review.

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Damn, this is some interesting stuff right here. It certainly goes outside the box and offers something new while still retaining an enjoyable experience. Nice work!

The composition is impressive. Even in your Round 1 submission, your composition was pretty awesome, and it's showing again here in Round 2. Even though your composition does have its own issues, you have a knack of making melodies that grab your attention and are instantly likeable. And I really like how that melody at 0:39 is repeated occasionally in the track, with one of its rhythms being highlighted by drum hits at parts like 0:55. It's a great melody with a fun rhythm and works well with the drums.

Your instrumentation is pretty good. You've got some decent chiptune-like sounds in there that give a good first impression. Your drums are fairly punchy and fit pretty well, although they aren't anything special. Your EQing is pretty good too. On top of all that, you've got a great introduction which I'll admit is one of my favourites this round. The ending however, is terrible. Sorry man, it's just too abrupt; you play quick notes and then out of nowhere you play the root chord. It's just not right.

The largest issue I have with this track is the fact that unfortunately this can get tiring to listen to after a while. You very rarely allow any other instrument to carry the main melody and it's almost always played by that high-pitched saxophone-like instrument. The part where that instrument exits in the middle of the song is highly welcomed but even then, that part isn't anything special, and soon afterwards the main instrument comes back in. What doesn't help is that you've got some fairly repetitive drums, melodies that have inherently quick notes and a very excessive amount of delay/reverb that just jumbles everything up.

Speaking of which, your mixing unfortunately still needs work. Your mixing isn't bad, since you've got some good EQing, but the first order of business is to tone down on the delay/reverb since it's making one part blur into the next. I'd also suggest throwing some more bass tones into that mix because right now other than a bit of a bass thump from the kick, we're left with a pretty understated low end. That being said, I love your filter automation.

So, recap; work on your mixing, your ending and the fact that this gets tiring to listen to. Despite that, this is still enjoyable, gives a good first impression and as is the case in Round 1 you showcase some really catchy and likeable composition.

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SCORE:
7/10

I'm back
Listened to the track, thought it was pretty good, your drums have improved greatly since I last heard your music, straying from the straight 4-on-the-floor beat lol. Good track overall, though I felt like there was way too much reverb/delay. I felt as though I couldn't tell any of the parts, well, apart because the instrumentation was very similar. I can't count the number of instruments in the song because it's hard to tell if they're different. I did catch the secondary percussion on the second listen though it is indeed very quiet. Overall, I can say there are a lot of good things about this track, like a strong melody, a good beat, and a very fun feel. Just some mixing and maybe some variation in the instrumentation.

Sincerely,
Prex

There's a clash of leading synths at the beginning that the additional drums just further help distract the listener.
However I like the song better once it's past the intro. The mixing is a bit off however, and the song stops unexpectedly.

Here is your personal review for round 2 of the NGADM! Keep in mind, this review will be harsher than the round 1 review! I will be poking at songs more in each consecutive round, because it will naturally be more difficult to advance.

The Good:
-I LOVE the percussion you introduce at the beginning.
-I really like the sliding swoopy synth at about 1:17.
-Mixing is alright by me.
-The chord progression is different from what I normally hear. It sounds pretty nice.
-The main synth sounds pretty nice, I like how it bounces all over the place - except at the beginning where it makes the whole song sound like it's vibrating.

The Not-So-Good:
-There's a weird sound toward the beginning that makes me feel like the song overall is "vibrating". And no, I'm not going to just put that down to a progressive mixing choice. It shows up later but isn't as much of a problem.
-You might want to change the drums a little bit more than you did. They're fairly repetitive.
-Transition at about 1:44 is a tad iffy. Could have been improved quite a bit.
-You may have wanted a bass in the song. If you did have one, I can't hear it.
-Chord change at around 2:35 is fairly ew. It would have been better if you changed the melody rather than just moving the chord sequence to a different base key.
-This is fairly repetitive overall. It doesn't change in feel or really much at all for most of the song - 1:45-1:50 is the only break, and it's pretty short.

Overall: This is a pretty nice song. I have to say, I like it a lot - though there are a lot of 'samey' sounds throught it and it doesn't change much. I think you should really work more on variation in your music. This is deserving of a 6.6/10 from me.