Reviews for .:Z:.[C] Rise of the Cham

[Inyro]

Born for This

My god, tell me I did NOT just hear what I think I heard. Holy s*** man, I'm not sure I can tell the difference between digital and recorded music anymore. Amazing job with the orchestration.

It feels really different from your guys' other work, especially in the beginning, but once the hip-hop really kicks in, well... I've heard people say that there's no three ways to spin a record, but you found it.

I thought the entrance was sick, and the exit was pretty hot too. Only thing I can say I didn't like was the volume on the claps. Bury it behind the rest of the percussion, and it's hot.

[Omgwtfcritz]

Nice

Hell yes, epic orchestral hip-hop! Haha, nice work guys, time to bitch.

Good Things:
-Nice soloing string instruments, sounded really authentic.
-Bells were nice, but eh, I felt like you kind of overused em'.
-Brass was some of the best I've heard, the high-pitched and low backing melodies worked really in the climaxes of the song.
-The build-ups to the climaxes were great, got you really pumped. Drops were brilliant.
-Nice backing strings.
-Absolutely loved that string and piano part hat started around 3:55. Epiccc, haha.
-Bass kick fit well, but that clap... eh...
-Cool chime part that first started at 4:58. Haven't really seen that used much.
-Damn, that brass near the end was really intense, I like it, haha.
-I know I'm mentioning that brass a lot, but it's a huge improvement, kicked ass in this song.
-I like how the kick suddenly got more powerful at the climaxes of the song, but the clap... Man, just got way too overpowering and heavy...
-Like how you alternate a snare and a clap for the beat.

Bad Things:
-Piano just didn't really hit the right tone in this. Maybe an octave too high? I'm not sure, should've been more echo-ey or something. I know I always say that but it really helps to make the song sound fuller and more dramatic.
-Clap didn't really work as well. Sounded too overpowering, and I don't know, the tone of the clap didn't sound right for the song, sounded too heavy and out in the open.
-The backing strings always seem to sound a bit too high-pitched like in "Liberation," especially near the end of this song. But eh, w/e.
-Piano solo ending was kinda weird, didn't really flow well. Especially starting around 5:43, with that random note at the end.
-Snare sounded cool and had a nice echo-ey effect. But I think it should've been a bit more faint at the beginning and slowly built up. It should also be especially faint when it's backing the soloing instruments like that part that started around 2:16.
-Drop for the main beat that came in at around 24 seconds was kind of sudden. I dunno, maybe something to make the build-up and entry for the main beat more anticipated? But as I said before, drops for the climaxes were the shit.

Well, what is there to say? Great job you two, epic orchestral hip-hop at it's peak. Keep em' coming you guys! Definite 5/5, peace! Hope you guys plan tweak this a bit by the way, but it's cool if you don't, sounds great as it is really.

Omgwtfcritz

Zajed responds:

ye i realized it too that the clap is too loud at the end and too dominating

im not gonna say anything about the good things you mentioned lol, but im trying to destroy your bad arguments muahaha

-i actually planned a piano solo but i dunno the notes ended up in randomness, so we cancelled it
-well i guess the high pitchyness is a problem with the east west vst, if not i didnt managed it to fix that lol not yet :/
-actually i wanted to bring in more variation to the ups and downs, but this whole project was consuming 2 gigs of ram so i had to be careful i wasnt sure too add more things because i was afraid that my programm crashes, it even crashed one time lol

since im fed up with the ram consume of east west im looking for a way to save some ram ''less is more'' or something like that, so the next time you get more variation in the build ups but i guess this is gonna take abit time, anyways

thanks fgor the great review, a pleasure as usual
much appreciation

[EternalXIII]

Sounds Like total shit...

Dipped in acoustic wonderfulness!!!! Lol!!! I really love the beat!! Are those strings live or synth?

Zajed responds:

lol thanks, those arentz real strings, if could play cello better i would have tried to record it lol but since im faliing hard at cello... duh

thanks for the review

[flashmac]

YEAH

Fucking sick man. I soon as I saw the Z next to the C, I jizzed my pants hahaha. This beat is incredible, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. It could've been a tad louder in my opinion but it sounds real good still. Imma be voting 5 on this everyday. This better make top 5! Great work, yall did a real good job!

5/5 - 4.50 / 5.00 (+ 0.018)

Zajed responds:

are you making a reference to the song ''jizzed in my pants''? lol
well gordon freeman could say a few things about this track lol but he never talks duh anyway

thanks for the review we appreciate it

[ShadyTyrant]

Killa

Hip Hop at its finest! Great job you two.

Zajed responds:

thanks alot =D