I wouldn't personally call this Drum n Bass. Perhaps choose a more appropriate forum for experimental music? I'm sure that review will be refuted by others (and yourself)
It's all very well to expect people to accept your music on the grounds that it is different, or use the excuse that "you're simply misunderstood", but this site is called drumnbass.be - meaning it is all - specifically - about the genre of Drum and Bass. The genre has formed to have many rules which are there to be broken and stretched, but to be recognizable as fitting in a genre, it needs to comply even extremely loosely to some set of genre guidelines.
Drum n Bass is typically a dance genre. Perhaps you can make a video showing how one dances to this.
Good luck and I do give you credit for your creative experimentation! Musically, your track has some interesting contemporary ideas, but there are many obvious errors - which judging by your level of knowledge (from the reviews you give) could have been fixed with a bit more effort and time.
Ooops, drums are playing a different tune, seems like you threw a bunch of samples together and called it a tune???
Needs work mate!
Did you use any funny substances to create this?
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i liked the intro but the song is very messed up i think the drum beat is abit random but there is some good ideas in there.
the drum beat dosent sound like its on the rite bars to me. i also dont think the bass goes wid the song maybe u could use that in another song try to keep the song simple to start with then add more things slowly as u go along i like the trumpet thing at the begining u dont normall hear that in a drum and bass song but i think it will go realy well hope this helps and dont stop making songs
Totally agree wiv the other reveiws,when it starts i fort it had potential 2 b summin a bit diffrent but when them drums come in everyfin sounds all over the shop n if im rite u got main snare panned fairly xtreme 2 the left??rekon u shud re-do all drums for this n put em in a proper d&b pattern n will alreddy sound better-good luk wit this 1!
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bringing me tangibly closer again to immortality
as far as this not being dnb, well, probably not,
as I make a point of shying away from established production techniques,
as if to find what is behind what's already here
as far as this being a mashup of samples, it is not,
I try to make every little detail myself, and except for the horns,
which were done with some beatslicing vst, everything here was programmed
personally I like how the clunkyness keeps it together, even the berated drums,
but I'll have to introduce some variation to it, and depending on my mood,
I don't like the synth sound towards the end
all that being said, I have difficulty not moving on to new projects, so it will most likely take some time before I address this one again
but I ain't ditching it, the world needs more mariachi breaks
well this is bordering on experi-"mental", its a fine line, my view is u need to master the traditional techniques before trying to go off on one and re-invent genres / styles etc
as long as ur enjoying what ur doin thats the main thing eh
bit messy neads some serious attention try takin some of thouse kicks out or whateva they are that loop is well cluttered and that bass sounds a bit poor
well, I disagree with consensus here that to achieve a high level musicianship you need to take the same path some before you have taken
there are different ways to reach this
if you start from crafting your own style, if you persist, eventually you will reach the same craetive level as any with technique
if you succeed in this people will put your music in a category anyway, be at least you'll get some praise for your originality
if you start with emulating an established style, you'll make bland, mediocre copies for a long time and chances are you will be stuck with the routines you've created even much later
my goal should (and will) be perfecting what I am already doing, not trying to conform to and repeat from what has ALREADY BEEN DONE!
should i succeed i will reap the rewards
should some of you succeed, you just might get rich
um.. abstract. Finding this quite hard to listen to. tbh I don't understand it and maybe thats my fault. I'd say if this is the kind of sound you are going for in terms of melody, drums and feel then awesome, stick to your guns mate but work on your mixdowns to ensure that everything you want to be represented sonically is done so in a way which is pleasurable to listen to... and for that you might have to tread a more traditional path.
Aleatoricism is the creation of art by chance, exploiting the principle of randomness.[citation needed] The word derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of dice. It should not be confused with either improvisation or indeterminacy.[1]
..Source: wikipedia.
For my taste is a complete bull, but maybe you'll find someone so open minded to be delighted to listen that chaos.
peace,
haha yes paracyte this geezers well up his own this i woould say is the worst attenpt at making drum n bass iv ever heard as for mairiachi breaks or whateva there called i think u need to not do them they sound hainous wots up with the name drake bart sounds fucked up
fair play for giving something a try tho m8,
but if it where my tune, it wouldnt have got to the mp3 stage,
i wouldve bin'd it a long time ago.
smoke a really big spliff,
no fuck it, really big bong,
no no no reaallly really huge bucket,
perhaps a large joint might take some of the chaos out of it,
i'll see if that works,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
(an hour later after 3 properly packed refers),
nope its still chaotic, messy,
im really trying to dance to this but my left leg is doing something that my right leg duznt want it to, and i look like a frigging spastic trying to walk up a flight of stairs.
see what i mean by chaotic.
im even finding it hard to nod my head to,
and that is usually a bad sign.
sorry m8.
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