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Title: Eternity
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Artist: bvanoudtshoorn
Genre: Electronica: Dance
Reviewed by: Simeon on December 29, 2007 (All reviews by Simeon)

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1Overall Description
A fairly average track that could take you to a trip back to 90's. Escorted by an extremely happy tune that turns out not to be a dance track, but more likely a background music for a cartoon game. Avoid if you want to hear a dance track cause you will probably disslike it, reconsider listening to it if you are into game music or happy tunes!
 
2Creativity Description
There is a thin line between creativity and repetitivity. If you read any of my previous reviews, (yes, im the bad guy) if there's one or another , i'll say it straight to your face... But this track has me stuck on that line... Perhaps i should say that, on this track, we can hear a few creative things happening , on the other hand ,being abused , meaning overused, all over it... at first i liked the rythm of snares, but then it just goes on and on and on and gets tiring... Same goes for allmost everything in the track... pad synth - main synth - the high pitched sequence that escorts the base... allmost everything.
 
3Artistic License Description
ok . lets assume that this track is what it claims to be... an electronica techno-dance... Still , it seems that somehow inspiration was lost in the way and what is supposed to be a "first part of the track", continues until the end of it and this lets you wonder. Was the track made really that fast? was the track made from only a few patterns? something went wrong there. On the other hand the samples quite fit to eachother... It's just that my ears were a bit tired from hearing the same octavio in the main synth and sequencer.
 
4Arrangement Description
How well is the piece together... if that was the only question in this section, i'd probably rate this track a -1...and i'll explain why... What appears to be an intro is simply a pattern copied from the middle of the track , put to the beggining , bass and beat removed and hear it is , an intro... Neither creative nor interesting. At 0:38 the main synth just pops out. There are no apparent bridges in the entire track nor a "resting point". Only a couple of "2 second" stops that are simply not enough. Same goes with the outro , the tomborins are a bad addition to the track while a simple "whooosh" sound and a hat, can't do the trick to end it nice and smoothly.. On the other hand the samples are well balanced... You get a good amount of depth with those synths used and a little work has been made with panning , a little but i think it's ok... My suggestion on this matter , a bit more reverb on the main synth could make it sound better.
 
5Sound Quality Description
The sound quality is a different story... Today's software does half the job for all of us composers. Everything is in place and sounds nice and clear. maybe , not sure of that , turning the volume of the main synth a bit down , still not sure about that.
 
6Does it work as a piece of music Description
I don't think this track can stand as a techno nor as a dance track... There are so many issues at so many sections that will not allow it ever to become a dance track...BUT, there's one thing in my mind, that it could stand as a background music in a game, like banjo kazooie for N64 or something. I'll be rating this section with a clean 4 having in mind that if i was to review a beat-track made for a game , and this came to my ears , i'd probably enjoy the happy feeling this tune gives to the listeners...
 
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