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Title: Forgotten Realms (acid Trance Mix)
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Artist: alredha
Genre: Electronica: Techno
Reviewed by: Glacier on June 27, 2007 (All reviews by Glacier)

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1Overall Description
Overall certainly a listenable song with good variation throughout the song, though perhaps too smooth flowing throughout with no real climax part to remember it by. I do see the medieval style at the beginning, but it seems to get lost a bit later in the song - not a problem though, that doesn't detract from the song. The only aspect that really put me off was when the acid synth started changing pitch at 1:27. In my opinion, it's not the right sample to do that with in the way it was done in this song. I think the intro could have had a bit more of a build-up in the background (even adding an extra hitat or something into the rhythm half-way through it..), it seemed a bit of a repetitive first minute without that. The tune was fine, just needed a few extras in the background. Overall the song flows quite nicely, and is worth a listen.
 
2Creativity Description
The melodies are fantastically thought up, though the main tune of the song throughout (the background strings) does get a bit repetitive as you listen through the whole song. Nothing too exciting with the rhythm/bass, though what is there works fine with the style of the song.
 
3Artistic License Description
As is, the song is done really nicely, but doesn't have any particular climax part that one would remember the song by - it's just smooth sailing throughout, which can get a bit boring if you listen to the song more than once. What would be nice is if you took the climax part at 5:15, made it slightly more lively perhaps, and used it at least once again earlier in the song at another climax point - that would have done it a lot more justice and given the song something to remember it by. The song doesn't really stand out as is.
 
4Arrangement Description
The very end of the song is done nicely (5:45 area), but there should have been more of an indication of it coming up, so as a whole the song ends somewhat abruptly. The rest of the song flows very nicely together though.
 
5Sound Quality Description
Most samples do sound high quality, though the acid synth isn't great, and is a rather over-used sample in the world of mod music. At some parts the tuning of different instruments does sound a bit off (ie. the one coming in at 3:45).
 
6VocalsDescription
Lol gotta love the sample that comes in at 4:16 =P Nicely done, pity more like this and the one at 4:28 weren't present throughout the song..
 
7Does it work as a piece of music Description
It works nicely as a whole, though unlike most songs where you can grasp where abouts you are in the song, having more structured intros, climaxes and endings would be a plus. Even an ending needs a bit of a longer build-up to it.
 
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