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Title: Blue Droplets
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Artist: tokai
Genre: Electronica: Techno
Reviewed by: hientau on December 18, 2007 (All reviews by hientau)

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1Overall Description
This track is okay production-wise, but lacks diversity. No climax, no effects, just a fairly simple beat.
 
2Creativity Description
Very uninspired, unoriginal piece. It sounds like 1/4 of a full track and the drums, which make up the majority of the track, are by no means original or otherwise entertaining.
 
3Arrangement Description
The piece starts with a nice beat, which I'd expect to be a starting point for an evolving piece.
Instead the track becomes less interesting from about 1:40. The bass and accompanying drum starting there could be done much better, especially production-wise.
From then on there's some variation in secondary instruments (drops, voice), but the track stays incedibly static for the remaining time. The drum line doesn't change very much, there are no noticable highs and lows
Panning isn't bad, but could be improved by using the room more effectively.
Apart from that there's neither a main instrument (some sort of synthie? for example) nor a creative use of effects and pads (frequency changes, dynamic equalizers, ...)
Alltogether the potential of the track in terms of arrangement stays almost untouched. I also don't see why the track is almost 6 minutes in length given its lack in variation.
 
4Sound Quality Description
Production quality is fairly good. No drum sounds out of place, the surrounding instruments (drops, voice etc.) blend in fairly well.
Nevertheless the drums sound lifeless and it seems no effects were used to take advantage of individual drums to create pumping effects (or they weren't used appropriately).
There are lots of resources in the TiS forums about how to max out your drums.
 
5Does it work as a piece of music Description
Despite its flaws I could imagine this piece as a background track in some sort of shooter game or similar.
 
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