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"Another World"

By Reflective / none

Originality:6Theme:7Arrangement:6
Technical:5Quality:6Global:7
The energy and melody are really good and so is the themes and percussions. Pretty good arrangements and technics, but having the reverb on lots of different tracks instead of one or two, makes this song very power-demanding. The quality is quite ok, but it could be better.





Originality:5Theme:7Arrangement:7
Technical:6Quality:8Global:8
'A well performed, fast moving trance track in a traditional we all heard a million times before' would the summary be of Another World. What pops up immediately is the good overall sound quality, the diversity in samples and the very weird volume usage in the melody. The melody is rather nice, but due to the usage of multiple notes some tones are louder than others, which results in a irritating listening session. Luckily the rest of the song sounds very slick, with phat beats, the infamous safri duo toms and a nice flanger on some elements of the beats. Ofcourse, again the tiesto sound is here again (oh, if tiesto only pattented it he would be a millionair), but it's rather harsh & hard in the mix (talking both frequency & volume). The clap and the beats, on the other hand, need more volume, because they absolutely get lost in this wannabe-impressive sound. To my great pleasure the 'who didn't use it once' audience sample is used, but only in a constructive way. There's also a rather unique, identifying voice sample with alot of effect, which sounds really okay in this song.

Overall a nice trance track, just standing above average, but would be very okay if it was shaped some more.

To the artist: please re-edit this song on some elements. Look after these volume jumps in the melody, because that is the major drawback of this song. Look also carefully at your mix, with respect to all the different samples (hihat and claps need attention too!), talking about panning & volume. Also reshape your leadsynth at 2.12, because it needs to be less aggresive (apply filter, alter the frequency spectrum or smoothen it). Probably the song will get much better if you do so.


Originality:6Theme:8Arrangement:8
Technical:7Quality:8Global:8
Good theme and structure.
You'll need a 1GHz computer to play this one.


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