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You know, I think why I did your approach to Hip Hop so much is that you so obviously draw from so many other traditions for your approach. You didn't grow up on Hip Hop, so you've got something real and significant to offer it.

For a first draft, this is really exciting, Victor! Like you, I can't wait to hear where it ends up! Those percussions are jamming! And the way they dance with the synth...SWEET. Nice one.

Well I was hooked within 5 seconds, so that says a lot!

You captured the walkabout vibe without using the instrumentation overtly - very cool and impressive move! The down-tempo rhythm that drives this is BEAUTIFUL and knits it together seamlessly. My only criticism (a anti-criticism) is I wish it was about 3 or 4 times as long! Added to favorites for sure (I'm betting I'm not the last either)! Thank you for pleasing my ears and mind so well with this offering!

A new mix from my favorite Belgium language arts teacher! The arrangement and mix are SOLID! Man, you've got levels so right throughout, it's hard to find criticism or suggestions for it.

I love how you've achieved a kind of Pop sensibility while staying grounded in Techno. It's this kind of fusion that brings people into genres that they're usually not attracted to or interested in. And for me, that little moment right around 4:00 when you slip in some Celtic melody with a fiddle makes this brilliant. Outstanding work, and worthy of adding to my list of personal favorites! Excellent!

Lamb's Bread to be sure. I love the flavor of your bass and organs.

I keep thinking if The Beatles had done dub, it would have sounded something like this. Amazing.

Great collab! One for the personal favorite list.

Hmmm - 6 reviews and 6 favorites, shall we make it 7 for 7?

Love that bass intro, and the sounds so grounded in tradition that soon follow. Yeah, everything about this track is righteous. Well done!

Spectacular, even!

You continue to impress me, Pierre. It's amazing tracking your musical progress in less than a year for me.

I think this is the best use of a Minette `pella I've heard yet. You're mix sounds organic and live, as if the instruments and singer did this together at once. Love the strings and percussion.

Added to faves and downloaded. Thanks!

Seems a bit thick - like you've cranked up the mid range and bass frequencies, and right on the verge of distortion. It really needs more in the upper mid and high ranges.

Like the rhythm you've got happening - very tribal and full of potential.

I'm not very familiar with Reaper, though understand it's pretty difficult to use. Keep it up!

To my ears, this has a lot of the sensibilities of the first wave of Industrial music. There is definitely the vibe of machinery, but moved out into the sphere of music.

The percussion surprised me. It was much faster than I expected, and really works well. So well, that I can't imagine this without a slower tempo. Love the distorted angst of the lead, too.

Fantastic ending.

We've had a thread going called "Ambient Logbook," and I'm going to add this one to the list of Exemplary Tracks. You're use of panning and creating sonic textures is exactly what we've been discussing.

I love the minimalism of this piece. It conveys that contemplative/reflective atmosphere, and it does something else as well. Admittedly, I'm biased as I've read your description, but the track does carry an emotional current that's both melancholy and reverent. It's very cool that this comes through, and I think I would make that call even without the description.

Most certainly will be checking out more of your offerings. Love the implications of your nym, and appreciate the irony of it in conjunction with your current avatar!

Cheers, and I'm glad I noticed your presence here!

So, you've gone from 1 track posted a couple weeks ago to 39 now? It's daunting trying to choose what to listen to next!

This one I've enjoyed many, many times on Devodale's radio stream, and is probably my favorite track of yours to date (that I've heard). It's also one of my all time favorite Ambient tracks.

Your texturing here is awesome. Like you, I don't find the voices scary, but unsettling and this creates a very interesting tension that is reconciled by the emotion of your guitar. Like it howls and cries for the voices. The guitar also share qualities that remind me of David Gilmore's work - grounded in primal Blues and moved out into post-psychedelic experience.

Downloaded and faved.

I'm so glad you're here, rei4real!

Wow. This really is the exemplary "Chillout" track, and one I'm sure to reference regularly in future discussions. It's connected perfectly to the origins of the genre (something to chill to away from the rave floor), and inseparably connected to the atmosphere of Ambient.

I think this is the best mixture of field recordings and music I've heard.

Fantastic.

One lesson to take from Van Gogh is stay away from razors when on a drinking binge with absinthe -lol. Nice that the EU let that law expire.

I've lurked this song one too many times to not comment, but I hadn't heard it since the update. There's a marked difference in tonality in this mix, isn't there? Wow.

I've been drawn to this one fairly regularly, because it is so Folk as an archetype. Even the title reflects this tradition perfectly. You don't have to search for human production in this song - it fully embodies the human spirit and condition.

Beautiful and faved (finally!).

Ha, you're attempt is a lot closer than mine came!

Really like your mix - the vocal samples rhythmically really work with both the percussion and the bass. I see someone else said that the highs were too clean, but I really like how there's such crisp separation between the tracks. Really nice work.

However you did it, it does sound live! Very organic and filled with human presence. Motivates movement, and if you're not dancing to it, you've got to bob your head or tap your feet. Nice one.

"Vietnamese Showdown" brought me directly here to see if you had any collabs up. You and Salook are a good sonic pairing. I think whether you know it or not, you're both influenced by Post-Industrial music and both in soundscapes like this, and movement motivating tracks like "Vietnamese" you translate that into dynamic, exciting music. There's a sense of deliberately creating emotional locations in your audience.

I think these are the deepest frequencies I've not really heard on a track here yet. I didn't know my cheap sub could generate wave forms that low. Whoa. Impressive work.

Outside my own comfort zone, so all I can really offer is my impressions as a deep listener to sound.

This is one happy track! I've got an 11 year old daughter who is an unabashed fiend of Trance music, and I'm going to get her opinion as well - but I'm already predicting her happy dance when she sees it's available for download.

I need to check your profile to see what DAW you're using, but the crispness and separation of your tracks is really good. This is really well arranged and mixed. Nice! (Put some work into mixing down, didn't you?)

Certainly motivated to check out more of your work after hearing this first one! Keep it up, we need more sincere musicians around these parts!

Because of my own tendency to bend genres, I've been spending far too much time researching this subject lately. The conclusion (one anyway) I've come to is more and more sub-genres arrive all the time to try to categorize the exceptions.

This is Techno that's bending or breaking rules of the genre. It's through these songs that challenge the assumptions that new and exciting stuff is made (or discovered). Best to break the rules to make good music than follow them and sound like everyone else.

Love the energy in this one!

For me the arrangement is a bit too intelligent to be compared with anything Gumpy.

Really nice work in conveying and creating an emotional space.

Great title! Equally great track!

Loved the tuned sensibility of the percussion, and it's always refreshing to a rhythm freak like myself! The melodic bits and harmony really achieve the best of ambiance, too. Emotional state successfully invoked!

Added to favorites. Thanks!

I know it's stating the obvious, but there's a reason this is the number 1 favorite track on this site.

I've enjoyed this one anonymously so many times now, I thought I should say something. It's taking every bit of my will power to not push the favorite button myself.

Someday I will, but for now I'm holding out.

(EDIT) - lol - 3rd listen in 2 days and I can't hold out any longer. Favorite #58 is mine! This song is a true gem, standing out among the 35,000+ tracks now on this site.

Truly outstanding.

I really dig your breaks (like scratching?) shortly before the 2:00 mark. Nice surprise there - unexpected and mixes things up a bit. Also very sharp getting it to reflect the wobble in the bass.

I'm been playing around a bit around this genre (around because I just can't commit) and find some of the "rules" rather baffling. Listening to your work here, I'm wondering how you don't feel trapped by it - and you obviously don't because you're keeping it "live" and happening with the bass throughout. Is that the key? Focus on bass lines?

I like this one, and wonder if you're done with it. The only constructive criticism I can offer has to do with the tonality. In my ear, the drums are really distinct as they're so crisp sounding. Everything else is rather muddy (not bad, just thick) and I wonder about giving more definition to something else. In other words, keep the bass as thick sounding, but offer a bit more separation to the vocal effects for example. I think it'd offer a good dynamic as it'd add further emphasis to the bass.

Nice one! Cheers.

Finally, the legend (and you are, still invoked in the forums) returns. So we'll hear more of your tracks here now, and don't have to go to mixposure to get our fixes?

I think I've sent emails your way thanking you for loops, and if not let me say thank you now. You're a real asset to the community whether you're here or not.

Love the song and look forward to hearing more from you!

Welcome back!

WTF? One review in a month and a half, and with all the forum posts specifically on dubstep? Maybe it's too inherently challenging?

Did you ever see Crash Worship when they were doing their thang? I wonder not because I hear the similarity in styles, but more in the spirit of the approach. I bet you have some wild shows, especially in what happens to your audience.

I love how the bass is so understated at times here.

Such an interesting interpretation - a Renaissance city sonically painted into an electronic Trance soundscape! Neon lights at night on 500 year old walls.

I think I understand why you have the intro as it is, and the previous reviews and advice for revision really got me thinking. My offering for some kind of compromise is this: consider adding some delay to the off-tempo tuned percussion.

If you can time the delay correctly, (delay at same bpm as track) you'll retain the original effect and bridge or merge it into the solid beat that it floats over. It will soften it a bit, but it'll still feel like that "old forgotten memories" that it reminds me of. Nice work here!

Hi Beast of Shojoland,

The thing that really strikes me with this piece, and makes me think about your other tracks, is how much you do without any kind of drums. Knowing you as I do, and knowing that you're a Trance music fiend, this is really amazing.

"The Dolphin's Tranquility Family Reunion" is really striking because to my ears' there's an internal rhythm that holds it all together, but it's not something that is actually physical. It makes me wonder about how you hear music in your mind when you're creating.

Very lovely track, and another added to my favorites! Thank you.