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Title: rock electricity
Artist: trinitrotoluene
Genre: Electronica: House
Reviewed by: Spectra on October 23, 2007 (All reviews by Spectra)

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1Overall Description
Seems to be a mis-matched humorous attempt to combine all the cliches in dance and rock music, all badly done, and shove them into one song (perhaps out of humor, perhaps merely out of incompetence).
In this track lpf-muted breakbeat claps then mis-tuned sounding lo-fi synth are met with a badly tuned metal guitar and scratchy saw synth in a piece that seems to communicate dance music as a dumber version of already drugged-out rock music.
The melody doesn't evolve at all, 3-chord-ish wonder, the lpf-filtered claps are a quite overused breakbeat style technique...essentially my bets are that this is either a deliberate attempt to make fun of dance musicians or simply someone who needs a lot more practice (judging by the fact this artist hasn't made any competent dance songs I honestly can't tell which is the case).

Hint of advice to the artist...you might want to try writing a half competent dance song before you turn around make a song that mocks the genre. But, regardless, I still went into detail to indicate what could be done to make this song better, both as a joke and as a piece of music (including sample source tips and the like).
 
2Creativity Description
You can well argue that this piece is creative in being cross-genre mixing violins and guitars. But the fact that there is no creativity in the melodic progression, no parts/sections (outro/intro/etc.) and the track is about 1 minute long kill much chance of this song to thrive as a "genre-breacher" or even something vaguely listen-able, even on the level of being a "joke song".
 
3Artistic License Description
Ok, ok...assuming the point of this was to be funny this deserves some credit for taking the most overly used cliches in both dance (like saw-synths) and rock (stale power-chords) and shoving them all into one song (that all truely innovative dance/rock musicians manage to avoid), even though it sounds stale and unrecognizable otherwise.
 
4ArrangementDescription
It simply appears that no attempt has been made to do intro/outro/chorus sections, panning, EQ'ing, range of moods, or anything else.
 
5Sound Quality Description
Between the quite mis-tuned (not just in tuning "cents", but to the point of being seriously off key), saw synth clashing with the electric guitars, and the bizarre lo-fi choice for encoding (8k bit-rate) it all sounds quite grating. What's needed to fix this 1) analogx auto-tuner (free) or another sample tuner 2) please encode at 64kbs at bare minimum even if you're going for a trashy lo-fi sound 3) try oneshotsamples, hammersound.net, or one of the various other sites listed in the forums...or just check out The Canary's post on free samples.
 
6Does it work as a piece of musicDescription
I'm strongly guessing this was not intended as music but instead as humor...it would pass as a humor track but as music it sounds, well, laughable.
 
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