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Knocked out a couple of tracks this week that I'm pretty happy with. The first one I tried to make an ambient track and it turned into something else. I've been getting a lot of mileage out of the Waves GTR stomp boxes since I picked that up on sale a month ago. Lots of that here.

https://soundcloud.com/neverwhere2410/t ... l-death-v2

The next one I wanted to try and write something at a faster tempo than I've been doing for a while and play with Unfiltered Audio Indent since I just grabbed that... So... Noise. And some 808 samples.

https://soundcloud.com/neverwhere2410/t ... -of-god-v2

Criticism of all flavors would be very much appreciated.

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The first track felt like it was teasing me through that first half ("I'm going to kick into some regular drumming now... Psych!!! Just kidding!"). I liked the addition of the melodic line. When it kicked into some regular rhythm, it really improved for me. I'm not sure if I want the first half changed or if I just need to get used to the progression here. I'm not a fan of speech samples (especially pitched unnaturally), so I could really do without those. But that's taste, I guess. The sounds are otherwise interesting. Is the ending an intended "glitchy cutout"? It seems uncertain of whether it's intended to be that or just stops.

The second one has a chaos that I want to enjoy but the pieces don't form a substantial solid whole for me. I like the idea though. Maybe the dominant pulsing of each chaotic element needs to be unified a bit. I wasn't keen on the rapid cycling dance-style synth introduced in the middle and I had more difficulty with the speech clips in this one than the first one. This one ends without a clearly intended resolution, too, so I am suspecting these endings might not be entirely thought out as part of the song structures (?). I'm a fan of solid endings as intentional devices rather than fades or abrupt "the project stops here" stops. Even if the ending is a brutal stopping point, it should feel like the song has wrapped up and the cutoff should have a feeling of rudeness, rather than "oops".

Sorry if my comments aren't so helpful. I think my tastes aren't quite aligned with yours, though I think we're interested in some similar things and I like the intensity and edge in your stuff.
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