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CLAP BACK
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| Yannick | ||||||||||||
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+ Clap ;) - Theme, Repetitive, odd structure | ||||||||||||
| Sunbuster | ||||||||||||
I guess this is hiphop or something similar. Well, the first thing that hits me is the weak sounding two-note piano melody(?). When the bass kicks in there audible distortion, and it continues all the way through the song. I had to lower the master in the mixer to half in order for the sound not to clip. What's really irritating is the piano sound. It plays through the whole song, and only plays two notes. You need a better piano sound, and you need a more variating melody. The strings that enter at a later stage seem to be more or less random notes. There's no even slightly logical path that they follow. The song is repetitive, and I guess to some extent hiphop is repetitive when you strip out the vocals. But since it's so repetitive, it should be much shorter. I'm sorry, but almost 5 minutes of that piano sound would... well, better not say it... The clap is nice however, it's really powerfull. Guess that's where the name of the song comes from. The bassline is nice and powerfull also. In the end, I doubt even fans of hiphop will find this tune very exciting. | ||||||||||||
| mindplay | ||||||||||||
Starts out like a good hip hop backing track, but where's the vocal? The lead theme that drops in instead, is disappointingly dischordant and expressionless. | ||||||||||||
| Novus | ||||||||||||
"Clap Back" by Psychoelements is an ill-advised exercise in cut-and-paste tracking. The song truly sounds like the artist created 3 distinct and interesting ideas indepedently of each other, then tossed them all into one song without bothering to make sure they worked well. The result is a repetitious mess. Here are the elements. First, there's the percussion, which features no more than a bass drum, a hand-clap sample, and a barely audible hihat. The artist crafts some unusual and funky rhythms from this limited palette, but also seems to resort to an awful lot of copying-and-pasting. The second element is the thin, reedy, lo-fi piano sample which carves out a simple 2-note melody and really acts more as a rhythm instrument. At times it also creates some intresting rhythms, particularly as it jumps from one note to the other, but these rhythms are often at odds with the the percussion, and the two don't mesh together nearly as well as they should. That's a shame too, because if done right, this could've served as a creative, stark foundation for a truly interesting tune. Instead, it's jarring, and it also suffers horribly under the cut-and-paste treatment. The dirtiness of the piano sample only makes matters worse. The third element is a wandering synth-brass melody that goes all over the place with only a minimum of coordination with the percussion or piano. This sample is also quite dirty, and each new note is choppy, suggesting that the artist made no use of any new note actions or volume envelopes to clean up the note-to-note transitions. The whole song sounds like it's striving for a stark, hip-hop vibe, but "Clap Back" is just too disjointed and disorganized to get there. |
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