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Title: Lost in Vagoo
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Artist: Gazus Snake
Genre: Electronica: Drum & Bass
Reviewed by: Ceekayed on July 06, 2007 (All reviews by Ceekayed)

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1Overall Description
This is an atmospheric dnb piece featuring enjoyable beats, enough variation to keep the listener interested and lots of tasty retriggering. However the sound isn't as balanced as it could be and the song lacks some wideness and space due to some volume/panning flaws. Still it's worth a few listens only because of all the creative ideas Gazus has shoved into this piece.
 
2Creativity Description
Gazus always comes up with very creative and evolving stuff and this piece isn't an exception. This piece is in constant movement and there's hardly any repetition at all - And not a single one of all the parts in this song sound like it didn't belong to this piece.
 
3Arrangement Description
Lets start with the good stuff; the transitions are mostly good. While there's no flashy breaks or anything, all the parts blend smoothly together. The only bad transition is at 2:12 - it feels rushed and the change in the overall sound is a bit too much for my taste. That's just nitpicking though, I didn't even notice it on the first listening time.
Now to the bad stuff; the sound balance is off - the snare seems to be a tad too loud, or has too much high freqs. Either way it eats alot of room that could've been used to give those pads more wideness and space. I would love to hear this song with more spread out pads, more punchy bassdrums and a bit lower basslines. That sinebass sounds a bit muddy in the middle parts because it eats so much lower mid frequencies while not having enough real deepness in it.
 
4Sound Quality Description
While I bitched a bit above, I think the overall quality of the song is good. The samples fit well together and nothing really jumps out as a bad sound. But it doesn't make you go like "Whoazomg, whut a soundscape!?!?" either.
 
5Does it work as a piece of music Description
Well, as the artist said, it's a quickly made song and you can hear it from the few flaws I pointed out above. Despite that, the song works very well on it's own. I started looping this piece about half an hour ago and haven't stopped for a minute yet, and that should tell enough. :)
 
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