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Radiowar

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  1. Beginning is off key. I don't know whether the dissonance is intentional or not. Sounds unintentional though, so you're gonna have to fix that...

    Entrances are a lot better now! Pads still sound off key especially around 1:30 and 1:37...and 1:44. Starts to get really messy after that. Pads are overdone. You can't really force atmosphere.

    Transition at 2:15 would be better if the pads weren't off key. The marimba synth you're using plays some wrong notes I think.

    Melody that comes in at 3:07 is out of time with the piano and the drums and bass which are also out of time with each other...

    This is getting there, some issues with wrong notes and wrong keys and mixed up timing. Structure is slowly developing so that's good. Or maybe I've heard this so many times I'm just getting used to it. Whatever. Keep it up.

  2. Pads at the beginning are off key or something. Rainstick sounds better.

    Entrance is still too sudden! I don't know what's going on here.

    So far it is sounding more structured...but that isn't saying much. Still feels too random. It's probably because the pads are out of key.

    And the beat doesn't fit. This mix sounds like it's trying to be atmospheric while the drums are trying to be uptempo or whatever. Doesn't work.

    Too random. You need to pick a direction the song is going in and stick with it...

  3. The intro still sounds wrong. The whistle-ish thing goes for 5 bars before the piano comes in so that's why it sounds wrong. Plus, the rhythm that it establishes is too different from the one that the piano plays. Then on top of that the piano barely gets halfway through the second bar before a huge pad comes in. I don't even know if it's a bar because there is no sense of time. That problem happens over and over throughout the song so you need to work on that, instead of just adding more instruments...

    I think the rainstick is too loud. It's a cool idea though. Could use some reverb or something. Piano still needs to be less fake. Pads are a too loud.

    It sounds really muddy but it isn't too bad until 1:12. There's just too much happening. The beat you added doesn't really help anything. It sounds cluttered and off key.

    The entrance at 2:07 is still too loud! it's been like this since the first version and i think I pointed it out. The voice samples are bugging me...if you have a mic you could just record yourself whispering at least.

    To be honest I kind of stopped listening around there. This song doesn't really go anywhere it just repeats certain parts at random intervals. It's too aimless. Needs to have a point to it.

  4. Just a quick note if you update your link you should probably bump the thread or else nobody will see it.

    So on to the mix..

    First think I noticed is that the pads come in too early. It doesn't seem to be playing in time with the piano...the piano seems to be playing just randomly.

    eww bass. Wrong note. Made worse by the fact that it is constantly repeating.

    From what I remember, not a lot has been changed from the first version of this. The entrances are still as awkward as they were, volume disparity is still too much, only now there is a bass playing the wrong note throughout the whole thing. Also noticed clipping around 2:00. Could just be my crappy headphones though.

    Everything seems random here. Still needs structure and also needs to not have 40 seconds of silence at the end.

  5. I liked the first few seconds of this. The drums and bass groove really well. The horns really aren't that great though. The delay takes awhile for to get used to...feels out of time with everything else. I liked the pan flute sounding thing at 1:48. That was cool. The fakeness of the samples doesn't bother me...it reminds me of a lot of other good dub influenced electronica.

    Not sure if I'm keeping this. I'd have to listen to it a few more times. I think it definitely deserves more than 4 reviews though.

  6. not really getting a sense of rhythm here. piano interrupts the heartbeat thing pretty suddenly, then it is interrupted again by stuff. The piano needs something other than an echo on it so it doesn't seem so harsh. The lead instrument that plays around 0:21 is way too murky. I don't know what I'm supposed to be hearing but what sounds like the melody is drowned out by its own decay and the marimba-ish thing.

    I'm hearing a lot of instruments suddenly appearing then disappearing way too loudly.

    I recognize the source, I'm not really familiar with it, but I can tell there isn't a whole lot of arrangement. The melody shifts 3 or 4 times throughout in seemingly random intervals.

    I think I'm rambling. Here are some things to think about:

    - work on entries, at least change the volumes because the quiet-loud disparity is huge (and add some reverb to that piano, it's wayyy too dry)

    - structure, to say that this mix doesn't go anywhere would be inaccurate because it goes pretty much everywhere and back more than a few times with no sense of direction.

    - and finally, arrangement. not hearing much interpretation.

  7. The drums here are awesome. Probably the best sequenced jazz fusion style drumming I have ever heard. It's incredibly realistic, I don't know why some people complain about it being too complicated. Reminds me of the stuff Dennis Chambers did with John Scofield. Since a lot of the fusion stuff from way back was pretty synthy as well, the fakeness really doesn't bother me. Great job.

  8. I've been meaning to go through all of Binster's older remixes ever since I heard 'Poltergeist Mix' and man...off to a good start so far.

    Tons of awesome things about this mix. The buildup to the end is perfect, just like it was in Poltergeist Mix. Loved the use of reverse samples too. Can't wait to hear the rest of your stuff.

  9. This sounds like something from The Sky Moves Sideways-era Porcupine Tree. That might be why the long solos didn't bother me as much. I really like this remix, but the mixing was kinda weird. Bad levels and stuff. I'm definitely keeping this one though.

    edit: I take back what I said about the mixing and stuff. Maybe I just had the volume to high on my headphone's volume control thingy. It's actually perfect.

  10. Sounds like Sonic Youth if they traded in Steve Shelley for Matt Tong (Bloc Party's drummer). The guitar sounds almost shoegazer-ish. Maybe the drum levels could've been balanced better. Doesn't bother me though. Great mix!

    I was actually trying to model the drumming after William Goldsmith (Sunny Day Real Estate / Foo Fighters / The Fire Theft), but I'll still take that as a compliment.

    Oh. Yeah I can see that too. They have sort of similar styles I guess. Matt Tong is slightly more...mechanical I guess.

    Either way, the drumming kicks ass.

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