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Title: Source Of Calm
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Artist: Airforce
Genre: Electronica: Trance
Reviewed by: Spectra on October 24, 2007 (All reviews by Spectra)

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1Overall Description
Excellent track, why on earth does it seem no one on the site (besides other Swedish artists) has heard of this
song? It's right up there with artists like Edzes in terms of professional-ity and strong, spunky, playful mood from the orchestral style drum breakdown and soaring piano-synths in the intro to the ATB-ish lead around 0:55 the the fact it has about 3 times as much melodic variation as most of ATB's songs.
 
2Creativity Description
While the arrangement and beat are pretty much standard professional trance the melody takes the motive-intense simplicity of ATB and combined it with enough variation to do Beethoven proud and as much spunk as Sonic/Destiny-Music's legendary dance modules. And that to a second, equally impressive melody that layers on top of the first starting at about 1:40 and you've got some serious "hyper-harmonic" trance.
 
3Artistic License Description
While the melodic work in this is golden and memorable the combination of a fairly flat beat (no tricks with drums on the off beats, custom breakbeats/echoes or the like) and a very standard saw synth/strings, piano, triangle lead type arrangement will unfortunately lead a fair number of people to remember this as a typical trance song. Experimentation with alternative instruments, for example what Duderstadt did with his remix of Fragma's "Embrace Me", would likely enable this tune to break past this problem.
 
4Arrangement Description
As noted in the artistic license section the overly standard choice of instruments and beat style partly kills this song's potential originality. On the other hand everything is professionally balanced and it makes sense this was signed by a record label.
 
5Sound Quality Description
Again, this is major-label-ish sound quality material, no complaints.
 
6Does it work as a piece of music Description
As a musical score it looks absolutely brilliant harmonically, but as an arranged piece of music is looses a notch due to the standard style of instruments and beats the brilliant melodies are played with and in front of. To the artist AKA Air-Force: put some of the same creativity into the arrangement as you have those "hyper-melodies" and you'll have a 5 on your hands. :-)
 
Comments
Jan 23 2008 4:29 pm
by Airforce
hey. how nice of you to review this track. Much appriciated. Just say the word and I'll put in the same effort for you. all the best /robin