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What's with this hardstyle genre? This, to me, is a better track when it feels more experimental, that's when your heart should be in it, pushing your boundaries in expressing yourself and us lot out here being accepting to our limits etc. and hopefully helping you adapt your style. I have to say, I'm trying but I can't get into your vocal sampling, I would prefer them to go and you to experiment more instrumentally. Just me!-)
This collection of musical experimentation evoked many images within me but I ain't going to bore anyone with the murky depths of my thoughts on world politics. Whatever, I think, I believe I got the picture and hope I appreciate the perspective offered therein.
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There are some really good combinations of sound and rhythm here (I don't like the voices in first track much, to be honest they almost spoil it) but your handling of construction of expression are excellent already. Psycho is a title that can be hard to live up to and usually comes over stronger with an older artiste, but I can see real potential to convey sensations, evoke them in the listener hopefully. OK, I'll give you that one. As for the next track, Sleepless Night, I can see you wanting to drumnbass it and it's as good as the genre generally is. Time Machine (Dr Who fan? LOL!-) takes me back a few years certainly, that formulaic build up... saved by that synth work, methinks, not sure about the spacey bit in the middle. Now, Wet Dawg... are we showing ourselves as not taking our selves TOO seriously, work on this experimental side if you wanna aspire to certain other folks from your neck of the woods, I think.
All in all, nice work, keep working at it.
It's fairly unneccesary for me to write a review, as I think the intro/explanation, pre-empts anything other that I could add, other than perhaps that I think the 'attempt' to construct, sonically, an abstract soundscape, with a wide array of sounds, rhythms and other noises, is actually very successful. Sometimes that is just what I want for myself, a canvas to modify as I interpret and assimilate your auditory expression, which I'm bound to subjectify and, if I'm lucky to, to transcend reality with musical input, however obscure they may sound to a 'norm' LOL Great work, thanks.
...into and through levels of consciousness and existence of the artiste/protagonist. Sounds like these are sometimes the way i feel (yes, it's one of THOSE days :-() i once had an interest in semiotics for my PhD, but was advised to avoid them, my thesis proposed was a re-evaluation of communication models and a adaptation that could ultimately be converted into technology as 'interpreter' without losing the unavoidable bridge of subjectivity. Simply put, you'll either appreciate this experiment in musical communication, or you won't, but don't worry, one day you might!-)
p.s. artwork is spot on!0)
Right from the start, and perhaps not unsurprisingly, Second starts strong and solid as First did. The sounds they produce and combination of those sounds with those rhythms just appeals so easily to the ear, well, at least my ears anyway. Some nice, subtle little variations in some of the tracks work well. Two heads, one body, twin stereo input, can't be bad!-) I might not agree, as such, but I really liked Zero Smoke and not freezing. I'm not sure if I get the 'lego' reference (j'ne parlez, pardonnez moi) but I personally find, what might be a criticism of repetitiveness, I see more as what minimalism is all about. Simplicity?
It surprised me how much I liked the tracks on this EP. Nice touches and variations, interesting, and with tasty bass to boot! Especially liked 2nd and 3rd tracks but all of them had something to offer and it wasn't just more of the same. Thanks. :-)
These two tracks are wicked and we out here need some more, loved the bass on the first track. :-)
wasn't sure how i was going to get on with this, but i managed to play it loud and it carries very well. The neighbourhood wasn't so keen but they are my ears and i will do with them what i like!-)
Good album, thanks.
