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RE: SML Feedback Contest Round 4 | A DSound Community Initiative
Here is my entry for the feedback challenge.
https://soundcloud.com/lefthouse-recordings/bass-clock-o-g-mix
https://dsound.audio/#!/@hilladigahackles/20180301t225612449z-bass-clock
Enjoyed the track, but it's so different to what I usually listen that I don't feel confident that my feedback will be valuable enough.
I'd say a quite unusual track with creative development all the way. It's awesome how you develop the clock beat and it finally shows up at 5:13 and the again at 6:12.
It's longer than usual, but it feels that you've been implementing your ideas all the way and you didn't want to cut almost anything.
Overall, my impressions are quite positive.
rad! thanks for listening and for your words! the track is long in the way it is as it pretty classicly made for djs! as i myself made a living as a dj for about 8 years of my life. and all the records us techno djs were buying and making where mostly 6 to 9 minutes long. long so a dj could mix 2 records together for 3 or 4 minutes to create a new song out of the two long tunes. and as i got further into it, i found i wanted less brakes in a song, so i could mix for a long time, and create the brakes myself. so this is my explanation for the structure and length of the tune! thanks again very kindly for sharing your thoughts!!!
I enjoyed listening to this. It did cut in quite abruptly for me - that will definitely jump start the tune. Since it's a longer piece I might have eased in, for the sake of the listener's endurance...(maybe I'm just a wimp!)
I liked the grandfather clock motif, and the main melody had a nice retro Thomas Dolby vibe, very percussive keyboards. The way you changed up that melody worked well towards sustaining the composition. And the mixing work overall was quite professional, I can tell that you have a great deal of dj experience.
Lots of interesting layers going on. At around 2:35 I noticed you filled up the beat for a bar as a buildup to the break rather than the usual sweeping thing a lot of dj's do - and I like that. Gives the piece a very angular feel, like jumping up at a 90 degree angle, rather than 45. My "ease in" comment could be taken in this context, like maybe a quiet bar or two before a quick jump...
And of course there were layers behind those angles that rose and fell smoothly, providing a nice juxtaposition with the geometric foreground.
After a couple of listens I've found that it it keeps growing on me. That's a good sign.