Minuter as in... minutes? Do you have any chance have some link to Sweden? This is an awesome track, so smooth and heavy at the same time, it sounds a bit like electronic metal at the beginning, a bit like Pain, but the guitar that kicks in really breaks out of that pattern. Awesome melody, awesome pace. Wonder if the beat could be heavier somehow, but it sounds awesome. Nice work!
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Thanks for the review.
I used Addictive Drums for the beat and with AD, the Kick, if loud, tends to really overtake the hats, and cymbals. I didn't want that to happen, so I took the bass out from under them so you could still hear the drum kicks, but also the full cymbals as well. I probably could've mastered the entire drums and gave it just a tad bit more bass, but I didn't want to risk the cymbals being overtaken by the kicks, so I left it as is, just to play it safe.
Also, I usually just name my songs words that I made up. Does minuter mean something in Swedish? I'm also REALLY in love with Swedish metal as well, so there's that...
Woo, what a crazily fast paced introductory theme! :D It's got a pretty intense rythem, energizing and creative, makes me type this review much faster than I usually type reviews. :P Great bass; beat, and the melody makes me think of Tetris somehow. Nice work!
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Thanks. I was just trying to coming with some random ass crap when I made this...
Nice and mystical. I like the melody, but thinking without that same synth from the fun loop it might sound a bit more serious. Potential for even more, nice working!
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Thanx
Simple fun! Funky rhythm and good variation, but there's some white noise towards the end. Keep it going!
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I like the beat! Heavy and steady, and the melody's mellow and spacey, but a bit sharp. The instrument that starts around 0:17 is way too sharp IMO, feels like if I didn't have the volume low I'd actually damage my hearing with that. :/ Maybe it has to do with sound quality though? any chance it could be saved at a higher kbps? Good otherwise!
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Sorry about that
The lyrics are great, the flow's good for the most part (gets a bit out of line around 1:55 and onwards) but the music feels overly soft somehow. I like the melody, but the piano is so far in the background it doesn't have that much impact on the track, feels it should enforce the rhyme and not just hide in the shadows of time. The beat stopping for the hooks; piano growing louder is nice, but how about a change of melody at that same time? IMO it grows a bit monotone. Unless that monotony is supposed to be symbolic to the content then it'd be useful variation.
I notice there's a lot of hissing - maybe try to annunciate the S's less? Overall it's an intense track; a messily metaphoric fluency that kinda never reaches the moment of truth and clarity you expect, just fades away, something you can really 'get down' to. :P Nice work!
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That video was awesome, cookie monster cameo and everything. :D I'm not here to review that part though, as for the music:
The music itself was great, I like the jazzy touch it has to it, and a steady oldskool beat to back it up. I feel the rap could be more fluent though. It starts great, but some parts of the following verses and hook don't really flow as well as they could, I particularly notice the 'only in death you see what I've done'... it's all about building lines with (audibly, doesn't really need to be exact) equal amounts of syllables to create a steady rhythm, between lines as well as within lines if you voice them in chunks, like you do in the hook - but you probably know that. A concrete way to fix that line, maybe add a will before the you? That way the three parts of the line are all the same length and you don't need to drag the middle part out. Tiny details...
Some parts of the verse could be clearer, I'm listening a few times to that 'ball and chain' part but just can't hear what you say before that. Lyrics would be nice at this point! :) Overall it's great, I like the flow, the music, the choice of words (creatively unique) and everything, but maybe polish the lines a bit or practice the flow some more? I know it's harder than it seems to sound truly fluent. Keep it going!
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This was a really nice track. I was expecting a longer build-up at the beginning when the beat starts, but the music just kicks in right away! After that point it doesn't progress quite as quickly, but the pace feels right. The twist to exotic and Asian around 0:30 is interesting, and when the voices combine with that it's an almost otherwordly experience. Coincidentally I also got the hypnotizing swirl transition to accompany the music for that phase... just perfect. :D
The shift from strings (wonder what instrument that is? balalaika? mandolin? sitar?) to overall ambiance around 2:30 is probably my favorite part. I like the shuffling beat that kicks in at this stage too. I'd like to provide more feedback but I just like listening to this, can't think of anything I'd want changed. Except for maybe the genre, I understand this could be used for hiphop, but without a verse for it it seems like an entirely different one, at least until the shuffling beat towards the end.
Wonder if the voices are all you? They fade in and out quite nicely. Nice work!
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Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.
As for the shift from strings, that particular one is a mandolin, and the similar instrument throughout most of the track besides that is a baglamas.
I went with hip hop because I thought it resembled some trip hop artists I know, and because of the dependence on the sub bass to carry the track.
The voices are a mixture of samples of "Pilentze Pee" an often sampled bulgarian chant that can also be heard in songs such as VAST's Touched and Jason Derulo's Breathing, and a reversed and chopped sample of the studio acapella of Lisa Miskovsky's Still Alive.
Four days isn't that long, you don't want to know the lengths I go procrastinating with some things. O_o It's a cool track btw, I like the start and the end best, when the bouncy beat that's playing for most of the track stops I realize... that part was actually a little annoying, maybe because it never shifts tone, it's always the same. overall good listen; keep it going!
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This has got a classy arcade feel to it. Smooth, creative, happy, energetic... and it's a perfect loop too. Nice work!
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Minuter 
Kyrotika 
Retro 007 
Fun Loop 
woot_Woot Theme 
Flicker Out 
Club Amaranthus 
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