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Title: Asteroids
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Artist: Louigi Verona
Genre: Electronica: Other
Reviewed by: Spectra on November 09, 2007 (All reviews by Spectra)

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1Overall Description
3.5ish feeling song which sounds like a quite unfinished 4.5... A deceptively simple yet incredibly moody and soothing song with some quite cool admirably quick yet relaxing "shifting" tribal drum-lines and a melodic feel from ambient "Beverly Hills Cop Theme".
It is held back mainly by single-theme nature (the whole thing follows one melody with few background chord changes) and a feel of incompleteness.
 
2Creativity Description
The way the drums shift between each other and have huge space from the melody are largely responsible for the high score here despite the unfinished/somewhat non-progressive feel of the melodic flow. The melody is very catchy, however, and effects like the laser at 0:40 and fade-in pad sweep at 0:43 bring a very inviting taste of chill-out style to this piece. The little drum rolls, IE at 1:24, are very cool as they manage to give little spurts of energy to the beat without doing any damage to the serene feel of the song.
Again, most of what lacks here is do to progression and length...as explained further in the "arrangements" section.
 
3Artistic License Description
On one hand, the song sounds quite incomplete, on the other hand everything that's in the song is crystal clear and works together emotionally to create a serene mood that sounds very confident and individualistic, not to mention professional.
 
4Arrangement Description
By about 0:40 the song starts to sound a bit empty...you wonder if the whole thing is an intro...the drums at 1:00 recover listener interest and at 1:20 an analog synth (and at 1:35 a square-wave one)...give a new degree of depth to hold interest...and 2:10 a new, equally serene melody enters to complement the first one.

These are all golden ideas in terms of building up a song but the main problem here is the entire song consists of a "main verse"...there is no chorus, outro, or any other corresponding change of mood or melody to keep the song feeling fresh. I realize keeping verse-by-verse structure is annoying and is somewhat meant to be broken in experimental music but, on the other hand, lack of changes of mood and melody could be easily fixed this way.
 
5Sound Quality Description
Again, the drums are VERY well chosen as they manage to slip between those thick, deep pads, which are also excellently chosen.
Yes, it is very minimal, done in a very "chill-out" style rather than techno-style (with the exception of the individual tribal-house-type drums)...but that helps the track fit it's quite original mood.
 
6Does it work as a piece of music Description
This piece is very very musical and well done for what it is...though, unfortunately, what it is...is quite incomplete.
If it was/is going for a chill-out sound the changes may be acheived by dropping out the melody and adding different effects/pads/sweeps for the "drop out" parts to give a sense of changing moods...there's really no formula for it, just that something must be changed in whatever way the artist desires...but it must be added to make the track more "surprising" and progressive than as stands.
 
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