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The Crossover Between Left and Up (moth equals)
March 25, 2007, Breaks
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3 reviews (9/10) | Rank: #417 (Peak: 221)
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Kind of eerie piano, strings and xylophone (yes... xylophone) melodies to a beat. Would like to hear what you think, and more specifically, what is the genre, and is the pause too long? Thanks :)

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Rating: 9.5/10  


S-Sonic


Read my song reviews		xylophone thing is very very beautiful. i think that pause was too long. this time i like the beat, although it still is quite basic beat, but i like it this time. i'm not sure i like the faster pattern of beats, i think it's ok. overral mood, atmosphere is very good, i like the piano sounds quite experimental, i think i hear that one of the notes is out of the key but it still sounds really good. 02:50 i hear an additional background stuff, and i didn't really liked it. the ending was perfect, because of a xylophone. (Posted on: Sep 13, 2007)
(response from artist) Thanks S-Sonic, I'm not sure what you mean by "additional background stuff" at 02:50, unless you mean the extra piano and louder strings? I felt it needed them to give some progression. I'm glad you like the xylophone, I thought the pause might be too long, I suppose it depends on whether you've heard the track before so know what to expect. Cheers for another review, always appreciated :)

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Carl_Smart


Read my song reviews		statik is right about the xylo, it sounds as if it has an eq with a narrow spike with a lot of gain. But then it doesn't sound as a xylophone, but a clockplay (glockenspiel? klockspel? it's like a xylophone but with metal keys) and I know that those are quite painful to listen to in real life. But it really doesn't matter, the atmosphere is awsome. The pause is almost perfect, all I want to add is a subtle touch of cubase's grungeliser (old school bigband jazz recording is the shit) The snare is too punchy, remove some low freq in it, consider a high freq reverb and maybe adding a sidestick hit to funk it up. I was just about ready to give this a very high rating, but the distorted beat interlude really screwed that. It was a bit too out of place to be cool, hows about swapping it for a pad/string break with some old school fat lady singing á la 30's style (removing the low freqs etc) This track sounds a lot like Télépop's album 'Angel Milk'. The sounds clips when the crash cymbal hits in (something it does a tad bit too often)I think you have to be better assigning every sound it's own niche in the spectrum. Other than that I must say that the arrangement of this track is impressive for being done by a guy at home, I trust everything is original? Very cool track, but a bit too much like an uncut diamond. Rework it and you got something to show the grandkids. (Posted on: Apr 1, 2007)
(response from artist) Thanks alot for the long review Carl Smart. I did use a recording of a xylophone note, not a glockenspiel, but I added some effects to it which maybe be the reason for both the narrow spike with a lot of gain and the metallic sound. Interesting suggestions for the break :) I think I just wanted something a little less sweet and upbeat in contrast with the childish quality of the xylophone. 30s style old school fat lady singing would be cool but I have no idea where I'd find a sample of that, or a fat lady to record singing in 30s style. It isn't a perfectly arranged or mastered track by a long shot, I know. Reviews help though, a different pair of ears notice things I don't during production sometimes. Cheers again for the long and helpful review :)

Rating: 8.5/10  


statik


Read my song reviews		Sounds very nice; the xylophone intro is a bit screeching, it peaks just a bit too loud/sharp, but maybe that's just my ears.
Also the break-part has a bit fuzzy click, which is kind of disruptive.
Otherwise the works like a charm :) (Posted on: Apr 1, 2007)
(response from artist) Thanks Statik. I hadn't noticed any peak in the xylophone, sorry about that. I did notice the click, and I seem to get clicks in alot of my tracks, although unintentional. It happens when I save my track whilst in the program to WAV form, it adds little glitches sometimes. I can't seem to get rid of them. Thanks for the 8.5 regardless of the problems with it :)




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