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Title: The Ghost & The Darkness
Artist: LungButter
Genre: Electronica: Dance
Reviewed by: thecanary on October 13, 2007 (All reviews by thecanary)

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1Overall Description
Overall, this is one of the artist's better tracks. A d'n'b type affair that suffers heavily from an absolutely awful horn sample/synth that gets annoying after the first time it plays. There are some interesting elements going on, but the overall execution of the track comes off very sloppy.
 
2Creativity Description
This song, while a solid creative effort, suffers greatly from just sounding uninteresting overall. The bassline, though nice and fat, is thoroughly unengaging, and for its percussion the song relies solely upon the cliche Amen beat that has been overused in drum 'n' bass since the begining.
 
3Artistic License Description
This doesn't really push any limits and most of samples don't work together very well at all. The bassline comes through nice and fat, very clean sounding- but that's about it. Everything else sounds either muddy or too airy. Serious adjustments to individual track EQs and the master EQ need to be made. Cut your 20khz & below, cut your super-high end, ditch the amen sample and sequence your own beat. Also, loose the horn sample- it takes every halfway decent thing in the track and just kills it.
 
4Arrangement Description
Arrangement is very amateurish; while I'm not one to denegrate anyone for stepping outside some of the constricting boundaries of a genre, drum 'n' bass is my life and I believe that there are some boundaries to this genre that just cannot be crossed. A track absolutely needs a solid intro- this has none. A track needs a solid outro- again, this has none. Also, in drum and bass, a good ear for the EQ is vitally important- and there is nothing in this track aside from the bassline that sounds even close to well-EQ'd.
 
5Sound Quality Description
Again, the only redeeming factor here is the fat bassline; even though its melody is disinteresting, it's sound quality is near flawless. Everything else needs some serious reworking. You should go looking around for more and better samples, and read up on some music theory, equalization and compression techniques, and literature about drum and bass. Also, listen to some quality d'n'b tracks that you like a lot- listen to them very closely. A lot of the flaws in this track are indicative of a person who doesn't pay close enough attention to the work of other artists.
 
6Does it work as a piece of music Description
No, unfortunately it doesn't. Sorry.
 
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