crucethus

Very good tune MR Silverman. I liked the arp bassline and the dual guitars with the chimey stuff at 2:28. Genre bending creative fun.
Cru

Spam Spammity Spam!!!!!

First and foremost you got a fav from me. Why. The song itself is beautiful , always changing, the percussion was great , interesting array of sounds mixed really well.Ed's guitar is sublime as always. You are very good at those subtle pads and strings you place quietly in the back of the mix and then bring them forward when you want to make your point. Nice sounding Piano. Well Done my friend, well done I loved it all.
Steve

Ahhh that Bass!!! I've only been to savannah once. Came down from staying in Hilton Head. Great work!
Cru

Probably one of your better tracks. Mostly because you stay in the lower ranges of your vocal stratus. When you go higher you get very "Pitchy" Flat, which is in most of your songs that you sing in in a higher plateau. That being said, you have some fundamentals of singing. Why not invest in a vocal coach. Listen; it takes balls to sing on any track, and share it with the whole wide world (I give you a million credits for doing it) . Believe me I am my worst critic of my own voice which is why you don't hear me very often sing. But you have to solve those pitch issues if your gonna demo your songs or else no one will bite when it could be an amazing song underneath. Find a vocal coach and practice..you will get better at it. I believe in you.
Cru

This is awesome. I love the drums. Sounds Metal without guitars. This Might be my favourite of your work so far.
great job.
Cru

Nice piano intro and build. 1:03 we get some percussion. Doesn't seem to build anywhere else though and I think I would put this in chill and not dancehall. I would like to hear this expanded as it's a great intro filled with build-tension and expectations. Otherwise nice work.
Cru

I would Call this more Dark Pop, but this song could easily be remixed as a deep house tune as it has certain elements that deep house needs to make it deep house, but in it's current form it's not deep house. Creepily good though my teutonic friend.
Cru

Good luck with the contest; You have a solid entry!
Cru

Love the minor 7th chords to start us off. Did I mention that Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (Flyte tyme) are a huge influence on my songwriting. Yeah this tune needs vox. it's served on a platter; for a great vocalist. great work, great songwriting Big R. 2:51 is Minneapolis sound all the way with that synth glissando downwards. D#. Same Key That Human (Human League) is in song written by JJ, and TL. Losing Prince must have been a shock to you my friend as us all. I really enjoyed this
Cru

Love this. Guitar is thrash worthy but the vox effects and stereo seperation is awesome. This defines the Rust Belt with a dark cynicism of America without question!!!
Cru

Ahh you're one of my favourites on this site and I look forward to new releases from you, that being said; this is creative as anything I've heard lately. you have a nice touch with Re-verbed FM synth sounds.
Always a fan
Cru

Hey how about responding to the "Thousand Pieces" of people liking your stuff 2 to 3 yrs ago and ...nothing.
Det er noget lort
Welcome back.. I guess?
Cru

Hey, I like the tropical feel. 1:14 seems out of place beat wise and I think it's the gain difference. Also the drops are way too prevalent. Don't get me wrong I liked what you did, but the mastering is so disparate that It made the track sound disjointed in parts. I remember doing something equivalent on my tune
"Dancing with the war drums" when I went to a quiet piano part. I had to totally remix that after everyone explained that it was too much of a contrast. But this is a cool tune so keep at it my friend.
Cru

Trippy Tune, esp the intro. good mixing, song is missing a groove to glue it all together with it's trippiness. Keep working on this one it's not finished yet.
Cru

Song is great, but the mixing and production is a wow from me. Sax sounded like it was coming in from behind me at some points. All instruments were clear and perfectly mixed. The drums sounded awesome. Mix is as clear as some Yello albums I have heard.
Cru

Ahh I miss those days of this sound!!!!! Great song!
Cru

I like 2:05 when you go Phyrgian scale mode. Then you drop some ambience on us. Very creative track and well arranged and fun to listen to.
Cru

The intro is awesome, Great use of Ambient sounds in a (A)minor key. Very compressed so it takes a little away from the dynamics. A beautiful song though. I love when the piano comes in around 1:05. This could be a nice intro into a more massive tune. Enjoyed that
Cru

Nothing wrong with samples, as long as you can bring the chops! ;-)

There is a lot to like about this mix. Have you experimented with expanding the pan a little bit and using a lighter Dynamic compression. For example when the "do you wanna dance" kicks on it's great, stereo panned and in your face. But that synth stab comes in and it's just kind of in the center and has no energy compared to that phrasing. (and that's the phrase you want to make you feel the energy of the track. Try splitting the stab and hard panning both channels. On one channel add just a small slight touch of distortion. You will be then emulating a hardware unit we used (back in the day)called an audio exciter. For some reason doing this would brighten the sound and make it more interesting. You made a very nice comment on my latest track "You always know how to maximize the minimal sound"
To create that minimal sound I use a hell of a lot of subtle harmonics and sub sounds and barely audible phrasings and percussions that just push the main theme or melody along.
I do like how you build the percussion in this one. But when you use a synth phrase try using multiple phrasing to create something bigger. Even take that synth stab and raise it a third or a fifth (chord structure) and pan it right lower in the mix and you will hear something interesting.
Anyhoo, love where you're going with this.
Cru

Loved this. Prince was a huge influence in my songwriting, as well as the whole Minneapolis scene. I can hear that influence in this work. Nice Rhodes piano. Also I like the way you incorporate the electronic with the organic. Is that your guitar playing cos it's awesome. Reminds me a bit of a more bluesy Stuart Matthewman (Cottonbelly). Great job
Cru

I was thinking. if we have the blues, but we sound like Prince, do we have the Purples?

Although I was disappointed that this was not in 3/4 time. your mixing and mastering certainly made up for that, as well as a solid groove.
Cru

Kind of reminds me of Bran Van 3000 meets the Cure, and I love both those bands, so thats' a good thing!

Very nice usage of midi. Now have you discovered Portuguese Fado yet? That's the true test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h3w7UfDRTw
Cru