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Title: Gangsta Hamstah
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Artist: DjSteen
Genre: Electronica: Trance
Reviewed by: Space Walk on September 19, 2007 (All reviews by Space Walk)

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1Overall Description
A sonic festival, a happy tune, a moving song and a beautiful music that doesn't only come with sounds. It comes with a smile. Drops of melodies and kicks of drums that will turn your room into dance floor. Together with some outstanding melodies, amazing beats and some nice chord progression this music doesn't stop until you shake that behind of yours.

Something in this music is taking me deep into the good times memories that I've had, and i find myself almost at the end of this tune with a BIG smile on my face, The music loops and plays again now and while i'm writing this review, I'm also moving my head and feet and at the same time think of vodka, disco and party.

A music with good atmospherics, nice depth and clean message of having fun, and being happy. The way the melodies are played and the kicks right there to support the heavy bass line system i can't do anything but thinking damn what a nice music. good job.

The only problem i had with this song is the genre the artist has chosen for this track... The music to my ears sounds less of trance elements and instead sounds like Dance and Eurobeat.
 
2Creativity Description
This is a genre of music that is done in millions that creating something special and state of art in this genre is virtually impossible today... but the fact that music has an uplifting feel makes it interesting to listen to, and the happy melodies inside the song keep it fresh at all time, the heavy and shaky beat in this one turns your PC room into a dance floor.

This may not be an original piece of music, but very very interesting piece instead. good work.
 
3Artistic License Description
An artist that obviously has both skills ans potentials. Most of all a musician that is into happier tunes which i liked. A happy dance tune has two sides, both positives and those are that if the music doesn't make you move it will make you smile. Keep up the good work.
 
4Arrangement Description
While the music has some top notch quality samples and uses some great musical structure it has some small "flaws" or "defects" in its arrangements.

First of all, to my opinion the music with such outstanding melody right there at 00:15 but before that some "simple" and "silly" drums are the lead or intro to the music... such beautiful creation of melody needs a more "proper" intro and lead.

At 04:37 the music shifts shape in an odd way, the snare kicks in but doesn't "hand over" the music, maybe a use of some sort of "crash" or "reveres snare" would do the job, or maybe even a small break, or some milliseconds of silence. Play around to find a better way, otherwise the melodic part between 03:00 till the end is just one big amazing sound festival.

The last issue i have with the arrangements is the ending part of this tune, a simple fading doesn't sound so good if you ask me, and why is that? the reason is simply because a masterpiece like the tune you have created here deserves a better ending. An ending mark with a hard hit, or maybe some strings in work for ending part could be nice. An outro would just do the song good.
 
5Sound Quality Description
Amazing sounds, tuned samples with great acoustic. Crystal clear samples. Not much can be said here except that it seems you have 2 ears that one is ideal for the sound quality and the other optimal for samples quality. great work.
 
6Does it work as a piece of music Description
With a dance beat, and a happy feel together with some melodic festivals this could easily be a huge hit at any private party, were people and friends gather to have good times and fun.
 
Comments
Sep 25 2007 11:27 am
by Space Walk
to showcase:... Thank you for your input and opinions, but you don't like the review? there's a "disagree" button press it. to djtrancendance:... it's a good thing TIS has someone like you with THE ONE and ONLY correct opinions.



Sep 25 2007 10:21 am
by Spectra
I agree it's not "professional grade"...but also agree there's a huge problem with people judging things by how professional grade they are over the amount of soul and personality you can feel in the music (IE tons of songs with neither soul nor originality get 5's and top the charts here simply b/c they are professionally produced). This on misses originality, yes, but at least it has soul. Also, to note, I'm not this guy's "bud", never even had contact with him before I reviewed his track....nor do I hand out ratings over 3 easily (my ratings are about 54% positive IE almost statistically perfect), but I make a point of rating a song for what it IS and could become rather than what it isn't. I also agree...this track would fail at a private party, but who said that was the point of this song (maybe it was to above reviewer, but why blame the artist for the reviewer's "mis-opinion")? Shouldn't you be mailing this artist comments like your in a posting not a semi-flaming comment that partly hold him responsible for his reviewer's biases? You're right about some of your accusations, but your comment does virtually NOTHING to help the artist improve...and, while you're dead on about inflated scores, your attitude on the whole isn't exactly helping the TIS community much either...it seems to be saying "let's make TIS into another beatmaka.com where pure professional-ity, not soul, is the basis of judging music).



Sep 20 2007 3:59 pm
by showcase
i'm sorry but this isn't going to be a huge hit at any private party, none of this deserves 5 stars. that would imply it's absolutely perfect on every level but sadly it is not. you have got to use the rating system as it was intended if it is going to hold any real meaning beyond giving 5 stars to your buds. I'd say at best this song deserves 3 or 3 1/2 stars. it is not groundbreaking, it is not professional grade even. it's run of the mill everyday trance that starts off horribly. 3 stars is not a bad rating by any means, but nobody sees it as that. everyone is gonna award friends 5 stars. or award "cool people" 5 stars. this is like traxinspace 1.0 all over again.