by

Alexander Siren
(Siren)

Favorite song of all the songs I've judged. Great sample set. Percussion is very funky, clean, crisp, affected properly by the song. Great use of transitions...leads are very well done. Bassline is also very well done. Technical aspect of the song is good and NOT overused.

Excellent qualities show in this song, the bass technique and composition is really good (esp. pattern 4-5). A solid work with good technique, samples, composition and expression. But it doesn't work for me, I find the lead annoying and the song unispiring and not too original. The ending is bland and there is too much of an 80s synth feel over the song.

Well. Very nice song. The only gripe I have with it is that the samples are a bit tinny, and at the end, the second half of the fadeout, the bass notes are dissonant. Other than that, everything is superb, and the music definately goes somewhere. Wonderful Piece.

Oh joy, it's Tangerine Fascination, part III. :-) Your style is _very_ close to Andy's, and I love it as much this year as last. Unfortunately, your consistency hasn't improved that much. It's that killer ultra-catchy refrain that connects the sometimes weak verse parts into a live, continuous wire full of energy and powerful polychord layering. One of the consistency problems is your leads -- sometimes they're wide-open odd-sounding quarter- and half-note sequences with nothing much to say, and not half a pattern later they're tight sweet lyrical little twelfth-note runs up and down the scale just screaming with poetic eloquence. It also seems that certain instrument choices weren't made with coherence of the song in mind, and you tried to shoehorn instruments like the harpsichord (more later) and the fretless bass into solos that make one want the bridge to hurry up. Another one is that the refrain is so damned catchy that the verses were mute and rambling in comparison and really needed tightening with the rest of the band, if that makes sense. Tracking is precise. Crescendoes before the chorus are an excellent device for adding tension to the song. Probably most of the trouble with this song is that harpsichord. I mean, for spectral balance it was a _perfect_ fit, but as a lead tone it just doesn't work -- the bridge is muddy and crowded from both the decays of other notes and the decays of the same note repeated. Even though most of what I wrote sounds quite critical, I really just can't get enough of this song -- there were just so many "almost"s and "could have been"s and little niggling details that detracted from the song being an all-around 100 sweep. But by all means don't you dare stop tracking -- I could listen to as much music as you'd like to put out.

This song doesn't bring us nothing new, nothing interesting. It was well tracked, but at the beginning I had the sensation that some notes and effects were placed a little sooner o later than the time they must been played. The samples seem to work well together, you can't claim anything about the tracker's technique. But the entry doesn't bring any emotions to he listener. But it doesn't bore him, and sometimes that's enough.

One of the best vet. tunes....has nerve, rithm, ideeas, originality. Nice tracking, nice samples... panning does it really stereo. Drums tracked very good, slap bass and the other basses makes the dinamicity of the song. Listening to the song you feel like moving...it seems to me that the tune wants desperately to tell something..."Carpe Diem". very good tune, overall.

Nice intro, very nice samples, and your drums are very well executed. Your bass line shows that you really have tracked for a while, and i was most impressed by your style, familiar as it is, I really enjoyed the tune. I didnt notice and flaws that detracted from the song, and the lead melody is very nice to listen too. Your structure is exemplary and your chorus is excellent. I really enjoyed your tune, my comments are so sparse because it is always easier to write more when something is wrong :) Thanks for great song. Good Luck

A pretty decent song here, but the drums do not match with the music. It sounds like the percussion from 'dirty walk' by necros mixed with a happy acoustic guitar thing. I suppose that mix is sort of original, but it sounds really strange. A more pronounced snare or wood-block would have fit better. However the drums on a whole are tracked really well, the hi-hats on channel 5 maybe a bit repetitive. The panning could use a little work, it's ok but mostly focuses around the center. The strings and lead in patterns 8-11 need to be held out longer, they sound a little choppy and the lead sounds weak there. This song progresses nicely, there is almost no monotony to it. Every 2 or so patterns introduces a new idea unlike alot of other songs that keep adding to the music then removing until it ends. Overall a solid song that shows alot of musical skill and talent, but the tracking aspect needs work.