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Domination -r

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My first original hardstyle piece

about time

Pump up the club ch00nz!

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this is definitely my favorite

ey yo where can i find your album Vince keeps telling me about?

Holy hell

Thats one great piece of hardstyl youve made. The only flaw I could find was that its a little slow, but still, its awsomeley eq'd
Hats off to you

nice for first one :)

Oky first of all..i want to say that hardstyle hasn't long breakdowns like trance..( even it is an sub-genre) , but i won't complain about this...

The buid-ups where very good..better that i was expecting for your first one ..so thats an plus
About the saw bassline needs to be more distored but itz oky..:)

The main lead was nice..but could be better..
About the piano.....i think it didn't fit..but thatz just my opinion

wee wee

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Rawrthaas responds:

peepeee

Ace! :)

Ok, how to put this in a constructive manner...

First of all, this being your first self-authored, non-covered / remixed hardstyle track, I think you did a very good job.

But... I want to give you some critisism, which I'm sure you won't mind ;)
At first, the 'afterbeat' (the bass-'hump' that follows every kick) sounded a bit off. It was getting to a point where it started getting annoying, until suddenly at 1:10 it popped into right feeling. Before 1:10 it sounded a bit too 'staccato' if you know what I mean. You want more 'legato' (laid-back, more stretched, not-choppy), like how it sounded after 1:10.

The bassline melody was really good, and at 1:10 I got a more 'hardstyle feeling'. At 1:25 you really got it going. Maybe a different lead synth but the overal picture was very pleasing. Around 2:00 you switched back to the intro-style melody. Somehow it sounded to me you wanted to cram two never-finished hardstyle pieces you made together. Somehow they did not mix and match properly, although I must admit your efforts to do so are noticable. If I stop being a dickhead for a few seconds, you did an excellent job.

One other advice I'd like to give you is when you want to make a proper build-up, climax, build-down, use more staccato melodies in the intro and outro (bells-like melodies always do the trick for me), while in the climax you want to use very legato and RAW sounding synths. Maybe halfway into the climax add an upper and a lower octave of the same melody, so that halfway into the climax it gets even more intense and gets a 'fuller body'.

Build up from 0:00 to 0:52 or 1:20 (when you're at 140-145 BPM, depends on how many bars you wanna use for your intro). Try using 2 or 4 bars break before ramming us into your climax :) Like using that piano sample you did before the outro. If you stick that infront of your climax you get a buildup-silence-climax style track :)

Love to hear more from you ;)

Rawrthaas responds:

Of course I don't mind criticism! Yeah, like you know this is really the first time I've done hardstyle (other than that really old and shitty remix of that one song), and I pretty much had to throw away my DnB influence I put on nearly every track. So it was almost a completely new experience. Almost.

Definitely more hardstyle in the future.

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Uploaded
May 11, 2008
1:55 PM EDT
Genre
Trance
File Info
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4.3 MB
3 min 7 sec

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