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I like the dramatic brass hit at the beginning, although it sounds a bit awkward when you cut it short on subsequent iterations. The beat is cool, and the bird samples sound cool, but I really wanted to hear some more moving notes here. You have a good sense of rhythm, flow, and a decent sense of sound design, but this piece simply doesn’t satisfy my standards for things like melodic development, harmonic variety, and textural depth. It also gets very repetitive after a while. The bass at 2:07 sounds cool, although most of the instruments in the texture throughout this piece serve solely rhythmic purposes. There are so many different dimensions of composition to explore, and I find it frustrating that you didn’t do more to add onto the creative beat and cool instrumentation here with some other pitched notes. I’d encourage you to keep working on this piece, though. It has a lot of potential. Keep at it, Kontiki! :)

Mixing, mastering, and balance
1.5/2
Structure, transitions, phrasing, and variety
.5/1.5
Melody, tonality, harmony, and texture
.5/2
Instrumentation and sound design
.75/1
Emotion, atmosphere, and catchiness
.75/1.5
Originality and uniqueness
.5/1
Overall (how do the elements above interact?)
.25/1
Composite score
4.75/10

It's a cool stucture and all that, but I there is almost no melody. You only used drums and some kind of bass here and there. Although I like the jungle FX, they were quite cool. Maybe you should have gone with a bit more of an ambient style, and maybe add some kind of string to make it a bit less empty. I would suggest you to look up some tutorials on youtube how to make good sound designs, and stuff like that.
It's also very repetitive, and since it's over 5 minutes long, it can get quite boring to listen to.
Also think of making the song title capitalized, it stands out more and it will give you more listeners.
Sorry for the low rating, but if you just could add a bit more of what I just said, I would rank this a bit higher.

Kontiki responds:

Yeah im cool with your review as long as it's critical
Im beginner, i lack knowledge in sound design/synth but we're getting there

Credits & Info

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178
Score
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Uploaded
Jul 5, 2019
2:43 PM EDT
Genre
House
File Info
Song
12.2 MB
5 min 21 sec

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* Contains third-party samples.
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