The 1:43 transition is great -- I love it, don't change it!
The one around 2:43 -- I love the sound of it, but a think it would sound better if you suddenly transitioned to it like with 1:43.
Other than that, I like the chords, melodies, blah, blah, blah...
The hand drum feels pretty out of place, but it has a great rhythm. Up to you, I guess.
Congrats on making it into the second round!
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.
DAT SAX! it reminds me a lot to DK games... i dunno why. oooh the nostalgia is strong in this one
Thanks! I played a lot of DK64 and I always loved its soundtrack, so I was influenced a lot by it early on. It's good to hear that my song is at all like a DK song!
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 :)
Thank you! I always try to write my songs with some sort of story behind it, and that story you made up fits very well with this track.
I'm really glad you liked this track, thanks again!
I was thinking you should raise the volume of the bongos seconds before reading what you said about them.
I'm sure there's a sweetspot a bit louder. As it is, it almost sounds like chaotic percussion because it might take a while to realize there are bongos playing.
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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