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Title: A Brand New Day
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Artist: gluon
Genre: Electronica: Progressive
Reviewed by: Space Walk on September 27, 2007 (All reviews by Space Walk)

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1Overall Description
A music with a nature of "late jungle" that is almost always played during the late hours of a rave party. These kind of tunes always have a tendency to grab and drag one into the state of trance, no matter under influence of a drug or not, as the beat makes the shape of the music, and forms the structure of the song. The dark lords of rave will find this music amazing.

Let us now approach from another point of view, as a digital sound creation this music could easily feature in some games. Imagine you are the commander of the space ship "Armalyte", the mission is to destroy the life form of some planet orbiting around a solar system that is positioned in some galaxy about 5 light years from the earth. This is the second level of the game and you are now penetrating trough the atmosphere of that planet and into the heart of it. All hell breaks loose and you encounter enemies like flying snakes with huge teeth, organic alien forms unknown till today... the rest I leave to your imagination. This music could easily been chosen for that particular level.

In both aspects the music has a flaw and that's the lack of variety of a more melodic body. A music with a duration like this has to offer more in order to stay fresh. The aim of the music IS to be based on drums and percussion which is a brilliant idea but in that case the music should be shorter. and if the aiming is to have music with a greater duration time then it needs more varieties in structure, shape, melody and mood. This song represents none of them and therefor a score of 4 to my opinion.
 
2Creativity Description
This is a music that has been done millions of times before considering the music genre, so it's nothing creative to it nor anything new. But the fact that this music has a fresh feelings to it and some of the best beat system makes it interesting to listen to. I'm finished with this part now so let us move on to the next part.
 
3Arrangement Description
The way music starts with drum patterns fading in is a bit dull, a music of this caliber with a duration like this needs more interesting intro. A few line of strings i think would be more proper to my opinion. The ending part was better and suits this kind of dark drum based trance.

The beat system is simply a masterpiece. The way the drum beats and the snare hits is just moving. The hi hat system are tight. The close hi hat is adding speed to the track and the open one marks and indicates the move of the track in steps. The progression of percussion is absolutely amazing, it's lovely and works like the "spice" of the tune. The percussions fill every empty space in the beat system giving the whole music its spirit of chilly jungle feel that this "late hour rave party" musics usually contain.

The line of 303 are not matching the heavy beat, they sound too "cute" and "hollow" for a bit like this. The resonance and decay of a screaming dual pipe of a 303 would just make the music like drops from heaven. It works fine in the tune, but i sense a different type would do better.

The bass line is there at its low frequency giving basis to all other sounds, but its present with a depth that doesn't destroy the heavy beat. Good choice of instrument. The bass almost vanishes in the music but is audible at all time and that's what I liked about it. The "chopped" sections of the bass from time to time add a nice volume to the track in total.

The melody part is missing in this one. I understand this is a music aimed for the bass, drums and percussion but that would last only in the first part of the music which sounds amazing. But a break and all the system repeats makes the ear getting use to the music and after a time becomes repetitive. I understand this is a music almost always suitable for the late hours of a rave party, but even a DJ would break the music after 6 minutes and change it. I strongly think and believe that you should add some melodic body part to the music. The piano in the 1-2 min of the music is not enough.
 
4Sound Quality Description
Totally amazing. The quality of every and each sound, noise and element of this tune is just amazing. Both frequencies high and low are floating and waving into each other in a perfect harmony.

Some 303 lines sound empty, at the high decay they scream and mask the tune for a millisecond but this is no flaw. The snare could use a touch too, as it "vanishes" sometimes during the beat both before and after the break with the female vocal.

Instruments are chosen carefully not to destroy the music in total, every sample sounds proper and overall quality of the gathered samples and instruments is just like a bright star in a dark night. Dual pipe analogue groove stream of the Roland TB303 is good, a bit hollow considering the dark and deep beat but definitely has given a nice touch to the music seen as whole.
 
5Does it work as a piece of music Description
This is music at its best. 11 minutes of sonic mayhem, give it good DJ, a dark and big place and a spectroscope. Pour in people of the mad raving kind, press play and start playing this one, and I promise people will dance till they drop.
 
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