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« on: July 28, 2016, 10:26:00 pm »
I listened through the whole thing, and there was a lot of downs and ups with this album, so I'm going to go ahead review each track! I'm rating the tracks relative to what I think of your skill level right now.
Fleeb Juice - 1/5
Sorry, but honestly the opening track does a bad job of being an opening track. I do love a good Rick and Morty reference, but it lasts almost a minute, so maybe you should have cut it down to size? or maybe low filter the voice in until you hit the drop. And then the drop is quite erratic. There's not telling where you're trying to go with the sound design, all the basses you use sound completely different. I don't know if you used presets or not but try to think about how the sounds we'll go together more beforehand. I thought it was very strange too. All the other drops performed in the rest of the EP are much more organized. Lastly, the drop just overpowers the entire set of drums. You can barely hear them, need some sidechain, or sidechain compression. Okay, the rests of the songs I'm not going to be so mean on, I promise.
Dream Eater - 3/5
I really like the Famicon sounding lead that happens here. I would have pitched it up just one more octave. The drop sound design is so much better on this track, but you're pretty much missing any sense of a sub frequency which makes it sound so much more empty. Also, that little arpeggio at the end, I really wish I saw more of that than just twice. Maybe had it come after the first drop as a backing arp for that lead.
Laughing Coffin - 4/5
Too many synths that are in the same frequency range going on at once at the beginning. Also, it's impossible to tell what that verse is saying. I know it's supposed to be pitched down but maybe eq the higher frequency up to make it more understandable. Or make a higher pitched copy of the vocal and make it quieter. Also, since he's rapping so fast, maybe something that's going just as fast backing his faster rhythm. I really like the whole Excision style drop in this, though. I think maybe the second drop didn't have to be as different as you made it, but it's still not bad. I mainly just have a problem with the clarity of the vocals in this track. I give it 4/5 just because how much I liked the excision style drop.
Say My Name - 3/5
This may be much more basic than the rest of the EP, but it does such a better job at making different basses sound good together. It does leave a lot to be desired in how long it is and how little the intro and breakdown give and the vocal is (IMHO) kind of overused in the dubstep community.
The Purple Rupee - 2/5
Don't quite see how this is relative to a Rupee? lol. 0:35. That vocal bass that comes in? It does not fit at all with what is going on and I don't understand where that is coming from. And the drop from 1:45 and on, just kind of loses all insanity that the sound design had. Where did that sound design go? It went from 2016 to Midnight Request but without the same rhythm. The whole thing is one big drop and maybe for genres like techno, trance and future garage that could work, but dubstep needs a build up, something to get listeners pumped up.
Deku - 5/5
I don't what is about this track, but I really love it. <3 All the percussion go together really well and you even manage to make that old school wobble sound really good in position. I can tell this was obviously something that wasn't even supposed to be the center of attention but I think this might be my favorite track on this EP. You can definitely learn from yourself in match basses rhythmically by listening to this track.
City Vibes (ft. Yikes) - 3.5/5
I never like sampling unless the sample was used to make something completely new, and that's not what you did. The sampling just kind of sounds repetitive, and of course in hip hop it needs to be repetitive for them to rap over it so that's not too much of a problem. I really wish you could have taken that beautiful sound you sampled and made something more unique with it. The rapper you worked with did a really good job over the track, though, so that's a plus. As hip hop tracks go, it's not bad, but it sure won't leave an imprint on anyone.
Lost Woods EP - 3.5/5
The EP has a lot of good moments, but sound design and style clash way too much in your compositions.
FAVORITE TRACK - Deku, it is short, but there's just something about it for me.