Reviews for -=LJC=- Genre Invasion

[Rucklo]

I love your...

...way of lightening up the music with exellent use of panning.
This mix is very easy on the ears, and the composition and instruments chosen are very well put together, that is until the pizzicato comes in. It was standing out a little too much in the mix, perhaps a little too bassy, or too much reverb on thatone. Oh well, its just a minor glithc.
The usage of reverb and cleaning up the other instruments is a job well done.
I really liked the mystique this song gave the feeling of, and some blupped xylophones or whatever instruments are used put this song into a constant wandering mysterium. Nice one, LJ! This is a five!

/Rucklo

LJCoffee responds:

Actually, all of the sounds were calmed way way down before I posted it - originaly all of the timbres were pretty bizarre but the whole thing felt a little... well... bizarre :)

If I'd have left them the way that they originally were and went with the glitch madness breakdown instead of the more traditional sounds then this would have ended up as a sort of IDM track instead.

Maybe I'll recycle it - or rathar, revert it back to an earlier state and resubmit a modified version to another genre.

Thanks.

[pitbulljones]

sweet as fuck

fucking AAAAAAAAA man, ur fricking ace, the progression of this piece is ace, for all it's randomness the piece just sticks togeva, which is a hard task to achieve with so many melody lines going on. I love it man, all ur stuff, it does remind me of something i listened to wen i was doing music at skool, i cudnt name the composer but there's defo summat there, lovely stuff mate keep it up.

LJCoffee responds:

Stuff you listened to in school? - Well that was most likely NOT me :D

As for the random feel, it's actually not nearly as random as you might think - There are really only four parts to it but I assigned amywhere between two and four different instruments to each part and I pop back and forth between the instruments in some cases from note to note and in others every few notes - there is a pattern to it though - it'a all full of numbers

- I usually do that though, most tracks that I've submitted contain at least one part that has some sort of numerical significance - sometimes it works well, sometimes it doesn't. If you haven't listened to "Calling Card" that's a perfect example of what I'm talking about - almost every bit of that song was created by encoding number sequences and then attaching a sound to the result. I used a few similar techniques with this submission.

[MusicalRocky]

wow

This is the most original thing I've heard in a while (including my own work). I love the tone. I also love the main melody. When the violin comes in and plays, that was cool. The wind instrument is the main influence on the overall tone, flow, and story of the song. I thought it was wonderful. I don't know what it is though (flute, piccolo, etc.).
I have no suggestions. Keep working hard.
Rocky

LJCoffee responds:

(flute, piccolo, etc.):
It's all a mish-mash of various VSTi's,
The beginning is mostly Reaktor 5 "SteamPipe" and the "real" strings are from the Reason orchester soundbank.

Anyways - 8 or 10 instances of Reaktor 5 - Reason 3 rewired - all sequenced in AcidPro.

over the next few weeks/months I'll be attempting to submit to each genre on NG - keep an eye out for them.

Thanks for the review!

[TritoneAngel]

Payback

A little birdie told me your scores just went up.

LJCoffee responds:

Wow! I think I might know that birdie - he tells me things too!

:)

[DarKsidE555]

Nice!

Hmm, a mix between japanese sound and some classic. Sounds quite decent. Btw. I'm glaady returning the favor of flaggin all your stuff with a big fat 0...uh...meant 5. hehe. ;)

LJCoffee responds:

thanks... heh - big fat 0 ... :D