Vig

YES. now STFU. If you need further explaination, i agree that this has enough originality that it doesnt rely completely on the vocal samples and the original. The percussion in particular adds something that the originals did not have. Otherwise, I agree with everything the other YES votes have said.

same problems here as with the last two or three sirnuts mixes. the delay is too much. you should really really mix the sound more on the dry end. there is almost no decay. just because you dont use loops soundfonts or anything else doesnt mean that you cant make a brutally repetitive mix, and it doesnt mean your instruments are interesting. without the middle section, this would frankly be a throwaway. but the middle section does mix it up pretty well. but again, there is really no dynamic escalation, and the instrumentation remains the same beginning to end, as do the parts. you need to learn to add and subtract as your song progresses to make it interesting. i know dance music (trance? techno, rave? emo? i dont know. let's stick with dance.) is repetitive by nature. that doesnt mean it has to be uninteresting. Your synths are too similar for my tastes, there is no softer sound to create some contrast. show me that you can make harmonies, that you have more tricks up your sleeve than excessive delay and EQ sweeps. borderline NO

it's nice, but it's too long. there is not enough going on for this to be 5 minutes. and the kick is bad. (understatement) NO

The piano in particular sounds cluttered.

both the lead and rhythm guitarists cant keep up with the drums, which sound like a casio. NO PS: the guitar solo sounds like something i'd expect to hear at guitar center. Watch your rhythms and note choice.

a lot of this feels a little empty...generic techno drums, generic techno bass, and melody. let's have something different, lets have something interesting. sometimes those bells come in at good moments, but overall, i want to hear more variation and less...well...generic. NO

Really bad levels. cant hear the drums at all, nor the bass. assuming there is one. the rhythm guitar is both louder and better recorded than the lead. this=bad. less distortion, more...um...recording quality. NO

very little dynamic change here, and the synths are dry and uninteresting. the ideas jump around a bit, but none of them SOUND different. Forgettable. NO

hmm...i like that dan used the word "dense." i think that is an accurate description of this song. unfortunately the harmony here is really lacking. whole notes on a sweeping pad. this would be okay if it were brief, but way too much time is spent without any dynamics, simply repeating the weak pad. the drums are quite annoying after a while, there there is a painfully bad note at 2:20, another bad note in the bass at 4:15, and there is clipping throughout. overall, this moves from may different melodies, but it never sounds different, and it never gets interesting. EDIT: right, i'm supposed to vote, or sumcrud. NO

very basic, not many original ideas, and rhythmically boring. predictable. NO

i wouldnt go that far. This track is well-produced, recorded, and it is creative and entertaining. i like it. but i wouldnt say it's what the site is all about. it's definately not in my top 10 mixes, or even top 20. however it's surely in the top 10%, and it's a solid track. so, i guess my point is, sweet track, just dont let protricity go to your heads.

Way to screw up on your first day, n00b. er, i mean, WELCOME!

some notes are horribly off-key, and the lower notes are muddy as hell. raise the whole thing an octave. i can barely hear what's going on. NO

i don't mind the dissonance at the beginning. sounds like it could have been intentional, and either way, it is interesting. the piece has good dynamics. the problem is that there isn't too much rearrangement and there isn't too much harmony. The harmony is mostly limited to the melody against the bass note. it sounds empty. it comes across as an unchallenging piece, and the arrangement doesn't do justice to the good dynamics. i feel like if i practiced for a week i could play this piece live, and that's not a good thing. i want to hear more harmonies, and more interesting harmonies. NO

quite captivating. sounds like it belongs on a soundtrack. the brass doesnt sound too great, and there's a bad note around 3:12. good dynamics, overall a strong submission. YES

While the arrangement isnt bad, there are some eq issues. also, the drums are constant throughout the song, and they get tedious, to say the least. it could use a change in groove somewhere. This is almost there, but it could use some more polish, some more meat. NO

I'm in agreement. What's here is good, and while there is no minimum time limit, a mix must at the very least have some development. this is just too short. NO

Okay. I dont think that I've ever heard a tuba play notes that fast. the flute also sounds a little too proficient, as to sound unnatural. There's no getting around the fact that the samples suck. GM, I presume? The reverb is too much. There is also clipping. There is really nothing too terrible about the arrangement, but the mix sounds so incredibly akward and unnatural. It would have been better if at least one of the instruments was recorded live. At the very least, more attention must be paid to making the instrument parts feasable. NO

thanks.

the sounds are mechanical, but so is the arrangement. there is a lot of repetition. there is no soul, aned there is no dynamic. Missing some of the most important parts of music. NO

the first minute of this song was very cool. but rather than becoming more intense, rather than escalating, it came down after one minute untill it was barely anything. at the end it sort of begins to come back up, but there is no escalation, just a neutral dynamic starting point and a big valley. Lets build up, not break down NO it's worth noting that this mix has great percussion and ambience, but the mix trails off. it's okay to drop out into a percussion section, but unfortunately this percussion section is half of the song, and it eats up too much time. It's cool, but the overall dynamic suffers. this could have been fixed if the song were a few minutes longer, and after the percussion section there was an escalation and a climax, but as it is right now, it just trails off. OK?!?!?!~

the bass is really ugly, and the drums aint exactly aria giovanni either. this is a two chord song, apparently. the strings play whole notes, and there are no dynamics to speak of. this mix needs some personality and some variation. some complexity couldnt hurt either. NO

this song starts out cool, but it fails to build up as much as it should. the ideas are cool, but they arent complete. aside from that, it never really changes. it's just the same thing over and over again. i was interested at the beginning, but there was nothing to keep me interested. NO

ari has a point about the original. the X5 soundtrack was no gem. this mix suffers from weak midrange, uninteresting arrangement, and rampant clipping. fix those problems and mix it up a bit more NO

hahah! YES you got a little bit sloppy with the lyrics, tho. it should be, "We ARE niggaz till the end of time." "iz" is third person singular, not first person plural.