MC6 Round 1 Results - Navetta Forever

 
"Navetta Forever"
(m6v-nave.zip)

by

Miska Crux
(Crux)


This song competed in the veteran division of Music Contest 6, where it ranked in block 2.

Judge: Telgarsky ,Matus

Way too boring and weak. Samples blend together well, but aren't unique at ALL. Be more unique and creative!

Judge: Leblanc ,Benoit

I'm not particuliarly an amateur of this style of music. I always find that it lacks a great deal of fillings. It's so empty that if compared to a house, if would crash immediatly on itself. And I found it so 'cliche'. I crave creativity, and originality in songs. None of these qualities were involved in the creation of this song. A blank is something that happens to everyone. Beside that, I cannot revoque your talent to track. You are able to do whatever you want to do. I see that you've mastered the skill of cut-&-paste, as it is clearly shown in your drum sequence. Try to create your own style. It is useless to try to pass for someone else, because of the simple fact that you are unique. Be confident in yourself, and experiment new styles. One day, you'll find something that best suits you. But till this day, don't try to copy someone else' style.

Judge: Barzilay ,Ohad

nice tune, some samples are not so clean. A latin slow rhythm. Parts of it sounds like music for TV shows. A good tune overall and a nice performance of the tracker.

Judge: Hegstad ,Jorgen

Appealing and interesting right from start to end. Very well tracked, with good samples. Your themes are interesting, exotic and fresh - and, not to say the least - extremely well executed. Sounds like a TV series theme. One of the top tunes this year!

Judge: Lee ,Elliott

An entertaining, well-written number this is. It's actually too happy for its own good, kinda like a victory dance at a grand party where everyone gets drunk. The melodies are clear and flow in and out. The background instrumentation is noticeable but not obtrusive. The choice of instruments fits well. There is very little that could be considered "wrong" about it. Of the picky things that could be construed as areas of improvement: 1) reverb (hall reverb would be much better; it seemed to have room-like reverb), 2) frequency equalization of the instruments (to bring out richer bassy tones because everything sounded really flat), 3) resample the samples so that each intstrument has more samples for each (e.g. the horns sounded fake at points because the sample was out of its range), 4) more expression on the lead instruments (to give it a more "live" feeling rather than a MIDI keyboard-like feeling), and 5) remove the brief hiphop-ish interlude near the end (it just didn't seem to fit in). Great job.

Judge: Friedly ,Matt

very general-midi sounding instruments... piano sample could be better... very lounge/70's tv series style music, reminds me of a themesong to some movie or game or something... kinda interesting, very cool beats going on, very neat mix of styles, well tracked, pretty groovay man... it's like a majestic gameshow... or something... you should do game music for interplay or something... very fun song :)