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Amphibious Amethyst

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Electronic song i'm going to complete soon, still like it a lot.

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Interesting. Sounds like a hybrid between hip-hop and some older techno I listened to. I will say that I can't really pick out an overarching melody or rhythmic center, so it's hard to give a fair judgement. The volume fluctuates in and out a lot in this piece, and I hear a lot of almost atonal work in there.

Your sound design is interesting, but your transitions are awkward and somewhat lacking. Drums are very dry and canned sounding. They seem to sit on top of the track rather than drive it. There's a lot of repetition and very little variation in individual phrases. I liked the chords between 4:09 and 4:12 or so.

Because the track is so long and repetitive, it's very hard to keep my attention. Keep in mind that as you hear more and more of your own work, your psychology will make it harder and harder to pick out the flaws in that work. Coming back to it months down the road, however, will usually knock the shine off of it. So remember that as you work on a piece day and night to rush it out of the oven. I can hear that you worked to get a cohesive sound, but I can also hear that psychology doing its work.

I would suggest taming the portamento on that bass just a little bit. Making the rises a bit more shallow and the pitch bend time a little shorter/longer, depending. A uniform bend like that gets old on the ears quickly. That's the main problem with this song, a lot of repetition with very few fills and transitions. Every 4th, 8th, and/or 16th bar is a good opportunity to change up what you're doing.

Also, could really use some swooshy transitions, cymbals, etc. Anything to keep interest! You've got a lot of material here but a lot of the same sound palette!

Sounds like a different version of Aphex Twin this is great

Manx1 responds:

I don't know what Aphex Twin is, but thanks!!

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Uploaded
Aug 18, 2016
2:46 PM EDT
Genre
Video Game
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14 MB
6 min 8 sec

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