MadTracker - "WOLF feel hunger" by JacekJRM

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WOLF feel hunger

by JacekJRM

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Sunbuster

Originality:	2/10	Technical:	1/10
Theme:	1/10	Quality:	2/10
Arrangement:	2/10	Global:	1/10

Messy and without real structure, experimental, but not in a good way. That's how I'd like to describe this track. The instruments tend to clash with each other. Reason? They sound too much like each other. Almost all instruments seem to be some variation of a sawtooth wave or squarewave synth. Melodies sound more like the random playing of a 7 year old trying to hit all keys on a keyboard at the same time. Mixwise there doesn't seem to be much done. There doesn't seem to be much effort trying to create spaces for the instruments and giving the track some dimension. The only thing was the random movement to the stereochannels by the lead. A start, but not nearly enough. The snippet playing from about 1:50 to 2:10 showed promise though. That little piece was the only spot that sounded structured and thought out. It was the highlight of this track.

This track might have had a shot at creating something really atmoshperic, too bad the structure and mix of the track ruined it.

TNK / ATK project

Originality:	8/10	Technical:	7/10
Theme:	6/10	Quality:	6/10
Arrangement:	6/10	Global:	7/10

Originality: 8
Theme: 6
Arrangement: 6
Technical: 7
Quality: 6
Global: 7

Impressive opening, offering an almost orchestral theme all done with analog synths... funny even if it's not optimal.
Too bad the song does not change that much from that opening. until much too long and that this song seems to be a an always repeating intro, even when the melody changes, this one gives me the feeling it is a compilation of intros...

The positive points :
- A quite original melody
- Weird synths & samples
- An original build up

The negative points :
- The drumline is way too thin, the leads way too loud.
- The melody seems to go nowhere.
- The sounds are either very good or very badly chosen for that given genre. Basically the FXs are good but the leads should be changed.

My hints : Whatever music you make :
- Mix it better : Too many frequency overlaps are to be heard here and there, and of course not enough low & high frequencies. Strings way too loud, drumline way too low.
- Make the buildup clearer or if not, atleast give us some elements to understand why you choose to make a weird build up. Weird build ups can be cool, but there must be something that must explain why you build it up that way, this can be the title (if I had to give a title to this track, It would have been "Journey into a mad man's mind", "The dance of the fools" or something like this), or some vocal samples or whatever. But as is, it is just too "special"...

Maybe I did not understand your track, which shows some obvious tracking skills, but the whole stuff is just too weird for me...

Also something that I'll probably copy-paste 3 billion times within this reviewing process : NAME YOUR TRACKS ! This would give your audiance and us judges a better view of how your track is built, will help newbies to learn how to use MT and to beat you in next year's compo :)