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Title: Days dub by
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Artist: grip
Genre: Electronica: Jungle
Reviewed by: thecanary on October 13, 2007 (All reviews by thecanary)

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1Overall Description
A spacey, mellow dubstyle breaks tune with some warm melodic hooks that keeps the listener's attention and interest throughout. This track abounds with minor technical flaws, such as panning and EQ issues, but when all is said and done the overall mood of the track comes through clean.
 
2Creativity Description
An outstanding creative effort here- contrary to Solo's comment, I rather enjoyed the deep layering of different melodies; rather than competing against each other, they seem to compliment each other very nicely. The only thing in this track that gets kind of tiresome upon further listens is the bassline- a short, repetitive melody is just fine, but there should be some modulations on it here and there in the track just to keep things moving; maybe some light distortion envelopes, or a flange here and there.
 
3Artistic License Description
Taken as a whole, some of the samples don't work very well together at all. The drum loop mentioned in the Sound Quality section below needs major readjustments in stereo effect and equalization; the firework sample should just go away altogether (only my opinion); and while the melodies play nice with each other, the samples used to effect them sometimes interfere with other samples- some minor adjustments could be made to each individual track's EQ with an ear for each melodic sample occupying its own place on the spectrum.
 
4Arrangement Description
Flawless arrangement in this track makes up for all the technical issues and, like I said above, brings forth the mood and intention of the song crisp and clear.
 
5Sound Quality Description
The intro synths sound a little too heavily saturated; it causes my speakers to crackle (and I've got good speakers, so...). Maybe a well placed mid-to-high level EQ cut could fix this. Also, there's a filtered drum loop that comes into the intro that sounds like it's just sitting in the wrong place on the stereo spectrum- almost like a sample in the surround channel on Impulse Tracker. Also, some of the the bassline, when it drops, sounds like it's just in the wrong place (almost entirely in the right channel). All the other instrumentation is great- beautiful work on some of the synths; very spacey dub-style.
 
6Does it work as a piece of music Description
Works very well as a piece of music- very ear-friendly despite the flaws. With a few minor adjustments, this track could go on CD in any store and fans of dub and breaks would buy it.
 
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