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Twisted Mechanics
| Originality: | 8 | Theme: | 8 | Arrangement: | 8 | ||||||
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| Technical: | 8 | Quality: | 9 | Global: | 8 | ||||||
| Twisted Mechanics a industrial DarkStep Track by Ben Hudson. Wow, finaly a DnB track ;) And not a bad one to! It all starts of with string samples, real ones, and it gives an agressive tension to the track, this is supported when the industrial mixed beats and the more Dom&Roland like beats flow in, verry nice. This track is the one you shouldn't listen to when your walking/cycling home late at night, it give's you the look behind your back feeling. So there's deffinatly emotion here! The samples are of good quality and the arrangements are great, and the use of madtracker FX is good! Nice job! | |||||||||||
| Originality: | 8 | Theme: | 7 | Arrangement: | 6 | ||||||
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| Technical: | 7 | Quality: | 7 | Global: | 7 | ||||||
| Woehoe! Woehoe! Drum 'n bass! Finally, the only drum 'n bass entry of this entire compo, and actually a quite nice one. Ben Hudson used orchestra hits (stravinsky, if I remember it correctly), which really give this good old dark drum 'n bass enviroment. When subranking this song would go into the darkstep, and I heard quite some elements which made me think instantly of technical itch's debut album 'diagnostics'. Together with the orchestra hits there are the general filtered, non-lineair bass-synths, but really used very well through filtering & panning. The beats certainly are phat and show great diversity, but, and that is a rather big disappointment, there not 'rollin'; the beats sounds to forced, resulted in my perception of a song with half speed. As the force of drum 'n bass lays in beats, the fact that Twisted Mechanics lacks the fluidity of them is costing points. The use of different scary samples/fx is done very well, which results in a 'natural sounding' darkstep track. The structure, on the other hand, is not good enough. Although drum 'n bass is a genre with lots of repeats, your interpretation of this is too much; in those 5 minutes you can do much more with it. Especially the beats should be something to vary very much with, but also bridges, intermezzo's or whatsoever are not present. Overall a good sounding drum 'n bass track with elements which sound very interesting (the combination of orchestra hits, filtered & furious bass-synths & scary strings and fx), but due to a lacking structure, lack of variation and 'unrollin' beats this song won't get the marks it could get. To the artist; I think you are doing a great job with this song, and certainly proving that you know which basic elements should be in a decent darkstep drum 'n bass track. Problem is that this song doesn't goes to the maximum which it has in itself; check out work from for instance technical itch, and try to figure out how he keeps his tracks, although they show repeats, interesting. Work on the beats; beats are very, very important! Use a rather rough closed hihat to keep the speed up, and use additional white noises (shakers, rides etc) to make variations. Work on the structure & variations; you have enough material in this song to make much more sub-elements. As drum 'n bass permits to make long, repetative songs you must use this to insert longer variations/melodies/fx parts. Even good drum 'n bass has a clear structure (for instance )EIB( almost always use the same structures), so you can't do without! | |||||||||||
| Originality: | 6 | Theme: | 6 | Arrangement: | 7 |
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| Technical: | 6 | Quality: | 7 | Global: | 6 |
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