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Title: Pennywise
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Artist: thecanary
Genre: Electronica: Progressive
Reviewed by: grip on July 11, 2007 (All reviews by grip)

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thecanary gave grip positive feedback for this review.
grip responded: yep, i have heaps of tunes w/ the same problem - good ideas but no source file...

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1Overall Description
Starts off with creepy, pitchbending synths and a slightly different beat from the dnb norm. When the bass comes around, starts rocking but I feel that It's missing something - perhaps some deviation with the drums, esp. the kick. The second breakdown introduces the creepy synths again, which sound very nice indeed. Nice filtersweeping with the drums here as well. Generally I feel the bassline somehow doesn't "fit" with the drums, so that it doesn't generate the groove it should. Then again, this is really a matter of opinion, as there are all the elements required for a grooving dnb tune.
 
2Creativity Description
This sounds like pre-millennial Ed Rush & Optical, which is nice, but then again, not really creative. The melodies are pretty standard stuff, but I really like the pitch bending creepiness of the intro -and breakdown synth - maybe you could've used it more somewhere?
 
3Arrangement Description
Yep, you know what you are doing and everything drops when it should.
 
4Sound Quality Description
Sounds real nice, personally I find it really hard to mix the kick and bass in dnb so that neither becomes muddy, but in this they work very well together - which, imo, is really important in dnb music. The snare is crisp sounding and the hihats as well.
 
5Does it work as a piece of music Description
Somehow this lacks that final groove to get up and start dancing. I dunno, perhaps with a slightly differing bassline and beats that would've happened. Anyway, that is really a matter of opinion.
 
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