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[[S_Rock] Hemp Root]

One of the most interesting

This is not particularly one of my favorites from you, but on the other hand, it's one of the most interesting songs you've made to date.
The fact is, you rarely use this kind of organ (?), and I've never heard a song from you that has as much intensity and "epicness" as this one. In my opinion, this song is a perfect trailer song, because it has so much power and darkness in it, you can easily imagine scenes with it, but I'll get to that later... We can really feel here that you tried something quite different from your original kind of work, which is great, it always is when we try something new :D
For most of the instruments, like I said they're unusual for your taste, and I personally like all of them, I also really like the drums who seemed to be recorded underwater. As for the strings, I wouldn't consider them as original, but as epic and powerful, they also have a real filmesque side to them.
"you can easily imagine scenes with it" here's what I imagine:
Manhattan

A man walks through an alley in "Hell's Kitchen", holding a bottle of beer in his hand. He's an irish, and a criminal. His life is full of dirty crimes and bloody murders, robberies and blood money...
We can't say things are always in order when your a criminal or when you control an underground mafia, but things usually go ok, most of the time... But sometimes, before you know it, things just go out of control...
And that's what's happening for him...
A week back, his boss, a powerful irish mobster, refused a deal with the mob from little Italy. It doesn't seem like much, but when your a mobster, that's just the kind of thing you don't do. Two days later, the irish crime boss got ambushed by two black sedans on his way to work. From then on things just went crazy... Because when an irish mob full of alcoholics just got it's boss whacked, you can bet your ass there's gonna be some action on the street.
And guess what. That's exactly what happened. A pizzeria with some mafioso's inside blew up, a deadly car chase took place on west 47th street, a gun fight in a local pub, as well as a couple mafioso's getting their throats cut. Constant funerals. Constant kills. A war between the enraged irish, alcoholic dogs, and the fedora wearing, natural born killer italians. There is no good guys, nor bad guys. Just criminals. In a war like this, people die everyday, and it does not end until one mafia is exterminated...
Hope you liked this scene! Credit to the film "State of Grace" with Sean Penn.

GX3

S-Rock responds:

hah yeah :) Thanks. Most of my songs now have a darker feel to them...Kinda Evil

[[S_Rock] Dukum's Revenge]

One fuckin' solid beat

This is one fuckin' solid beat man, real powerful, a real and pure determination of your love for hip-hop (ok, I'm going a little far now... better get back on track).
So, it's been a while since I reviewed any of ya songs here, so expect me hitting up all your newest ones as well. So, beat's superb and simple, and powerful, but I've said that enough... Synths sound like usual, just playing another cool melody, which, by the way, sounds great and a lot like S-Rock (no kidding : /).
The drum beat sounds interesting, as if it was some kinda mix between a hip-hop beat and a jazz drum-line, but that's probably not it at all... Anyway, that's just what I thought I heard... For some reason, this song has a more epic feel than your other ones, I'm sure it's because of the strings, which you don't use that often actually.
Anyways, this song kicks royal ass, great job!
How about a scene?
If you ever happened to hang out in New Jersey late at night, you might have seen him, heard him, or caught a glimpse of him perhaps... You maybe even talked to him... He's black, he's got a suit and tie, he's english, and he's got a sword... This, is the story of Dukum, the lone swordsman from New Jersey.
Dukum was a respected business man, but as he saw that the society he faced was corrupted and that nobody did anything or even cared about it, he decided to take matters into his own hands...
From then on, bloody fights took place in dark streets. Dukum would take his sword and fight dealers, corrupted cops and businessmen, mobsters, criminals... Dukum is the symbol of those who are tired of this sick society, but only he got the balls to fight it. Full view on a nasty midnight battle against a couple of criminals; Dukum lightens his suit, loosens his tie, grabs his sword, and cuts up those thugs running towards him. Blood splashes here and there, pieces of raw meat fall on the ground, turning the place red. (1:10) Every evening, towards 3:30 A.M. he stops by his ex-wifes apartment in the bronx, to kiss his sleeping girls good night. He's maybe a cold swordsman, but he's also a loving father after all.
Back on the street, nothing can stop him, pistols, desert eagles, AK-47's, uzis, thompson's... nothing. This fight lead every night, is Dukum's Revenge.

GX3

S-Rock responds:

Awesome Stuff, I'm glad I love reviews :D

[The Great Edenia]

An intriguing song

I must say, this is very intriguing as an introduction for a hard-rock band, it REALLY makes me want to hear those hard-rock songs...
Their isn't much to say technically, but just the fact that this song is related to hard-rock is something worth talking about... For instance, if this "previews" the hard-rock songs, is it some kind of symbolic figure representing the fact that in each hard-rock song, inside all that loud noise, some peace and calm can be found? I dunno, that is just some wild guess...
As for technically, there really is not much to talk about. The flutes (?) were relatively good, that's about all I can come up with... But I think what's really interesting about this song, is this possible explanation behind it. Tell me if I'm wrong, if not, tell me about it!
Here goes my scene, which I tried to make a little different than the others:
Vietnam 1971 7:31 A.M.

"We've been sent on a 'search & destroy' mission for these past few days... We've burnt places to the ground, blown up stone bunkers, shot young soldiers, killed children... We've done and seen horrible things during these past few weeks.
Today we've been sent far into the deep jungle, and as we climb a vast mountain, I look around us, I seem to be the only one doing so, but I see a landscape which is so beautiful, it's worth being called paradise. As I stop to look at it, time seems to have slowed down, certain sounds have disappeared, like the loud footsteps from the soldier's boots, and other sounds, seem to have been amplified, like the birds chipping, insects, nature... The only thing I vaguely hear, is the helicopter behind us... I stare at this amazing landscape, and ask myself: How did we end up fighting in this paradise? Looking at that place, makes me forget for a moment, all the violence and death around us.
I'm just a simple soldier, and even if I know I can't change much of anything, I know, that fighting in a place like this is wrong..."
There you go! I hope you enjoyed this scene and that it wasn't at all what you we're expecting :D

GX3

[[KgZ] Jurs OP 4]

A nice, relaxing song

Finally, my review's here, sorry you had to wait so long;
Well, there isn't much to say, since there's only a few instruments and the melody stays the same... The guitar (?) was very good, so is the piano, both very well played, and the percussion smoothly joins the beach ambiance. The melody has a great rhythm, very calm and relaxing at once. Wasn't too fond of the piano, but that's just my personal taste, otherwise it's well played. It's funny because I just realized that the beat actually sounds like a powerful hip-hop beat :P.
I'll just skip to the scene, since I totally ran out of things to say;
The sky goes black, night falls on a distant cuban beach, far from the city.
On that beach, lays a small open bar, which just turned on its moody night lights. Some people have just arrived, just in time for happy hour. Some are local cubans, others are rich people from florida, looking for a nice time and drink. The dark orange light behind the waiter at the bar gives him a dark mysterious silhouette. At that time of night we can hear people laughing and chatting, the music, and the waves, slowly crashing on the beach... Some of the people hang in the bar, talking, while others venture towards the night and waves with a glass of martini in their hand.
Hanging out on the beaches at night is always great, why not try it one evening and stop by this cuban bar?
Hope this scene suits you,

GX3

[- Finally Here -]

"a flop in my eyes" God in mine

I have to diseagree with SES here, because I think that everything in this beat is flamming hot, and way hotter then SES's recent beats, that's for sure.
The synths here are pretty cool, with their sort of gangsta' feeling to them, they remind of Nc321's synths. The beat is quite solid, and powerful, even though I'de tend to make it more explosive, but you did a fair enough job on it.
Now this is where I'de wanna slap SES in his face, the horns. Those horns man, are probably the godliest, sexiest horns on the audio portal, they give SO much power to this beat, it feels like it's someone's entrance, making his show. I'de give 10 simply because of the horns. "possibly a flop in my eyes"? God in mine.
And I just HAVE to create a quick scene with this beast:
It's late, or possibly very early... The sky is all black. A black man calmly walks down a street. He just beat the shit out of some joker who was mocking him. He can hear the sirens out in the distance, coming for him. But he keeps cool, he's still calm. This guy is a famous rapper, a superstar, and he doesn't give a shit about the rest.
He can finally see the police cars arriving in the distance. Engines roaring. Lights shining. The cars approach him. But he keeps on walking, and stretches his arms horizontally, making the shape of a cross. We see him from behind, with the police lights up front, creating a shiny red and blue outline of his dark silhouette. He greets the police lights as if they were paparazzis taking pictures of him, and the call of the sirens as if they were the croud, cheering for him.
There you go Greeksta, hope you enjoyed this, and I do hope you'll release more of this kinda shit soon enough. SES is the joker who got his ass kicked, and you are the gangsta who's walking towards the police, acting cool.
Peace,

GX3

Greeksta-69 responds:

more coming for you, better than ever

much love

[Who The Fuck Am I?]

Best to date?

By far your best song to date? I thought Mr. Superstar Sytrus made kick-ass music?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not at ALL saying this song is bad, I like it alot, but it's not an amazing song either, so I'm curious to listen to your other songs...
The instruments were ok, all though I really think the keyboard was sort of diseapointing, I dunno, I guess I was expecting slightly better. The other synths are cool, but the beat is not present enough, you need to make a blasting and explosive beat to make it sound good. But then again, this song isn't exactly explosive, and a calm beat doesn't necessarily sound bad. The thing is we really have to concetrate to hear the beat well enough. About the voice, well it surely did not sound pro, but it gives the song a funny side, it seems like the rapper is some average teen taking himself very seriously and thinking he's really good heheh.
The melody really feels like it needs something extra, it was too empty, so you should probably work on filling it up without overflowing.
Now let's skip to the scene:
A young teenager makes a hip-hop song (this one).
After making most of his friends listen to it, one of them, ironicaly tells him to present it to some big record company. Except this guy thought he was serious and acctualy does it. One morning he shows up at the CEO's desk, after telling his secretairy he's got a kick-ass song that this CEO should publish. So he shows up, makes the CEO listen to it. The CEO frowns. He then looks at him, smiles and says "We'll think about it.". The kind of phrase which in reality says "No". So the "rapper" walks out of the building, thinking "Yes! I've done it", being too stupid to understand the truth of all of this. He tries to get in contact with the CEO again during a few days, but in vain. But he doesn't mind not being in touch with him at all... Because he thinks he's becoming extremely famous. So he walks in the street, saying "Hey!" and "Yo!" to people he's never met, thinking they know him. He also starts dancing all alone in the street, thinking of his song.
The CEO never called back. The song was never released. But since then he believes that he's as famous as Jay-Z.
At least he's got a wild imagination...
Hope you enjoyed all of this Syntrus. Cheers!

GX3

[-The Breakthrough-]

An interesting, and multiple song

This was quite a curious song, mostly because it contained three very distinctive parts. The first part was very cool, very filmesque, and it had a good intense feeling to it, mostly because of the choice of instruments that made it sound very powerful, and very epic. The second part, was probably my favorite, very action-packed, and sounded real good. The choice of instruments in this case was probably a little more banal, like most D'n'B, with a touch of epicness that made me picture Solid Snake :O
The drums in that part were very powerful, they almost made the sound of a storm. However, the third part bugged me, and that was because of the singer's voice and her way of singing, which I personally couldn't stand very long... Not saying she sings bad, she doesn't, but I just, really, didn't like the way she sang. And probably the biggest problem was the fact that this part lasted forever...
Scene:
1944, Frankfurt, 02:10 A.M.
In a very secure german facility, an american soldier is held prisoner. The rain pours powerfully, and it almost covers the sound of the guard's foot steps.
A car stops nearby. Inside, are two american soldiers, ready to sacrifice their lives to the prisoner's. Not by pure honor, but because he had aquiered valuble information regarding the nazi government and it's operations. There are no more questions to be asked, they have to save him. The first one comes out (Ron Perlman) and takes a look around. As soon as the second one comes out of the car, the action starts...
(00:37) In not even an instant, the guard's throat is slit by the american. Without wasting a second, they enter the facility. They start climbing the brick walls to avoid attention once inside the building. Upon arriving at the 3rd floor, the american shatters the window with his own fist, and barges inside. The few soldiers who ran torwards him with machine guns get thrown against the nearest walls. The second american comes in by the same window with a machine gun and fires all over the place, killing all nearby ennemies. It doesn't take too long for the american to find the prisoner, who immediatly follows them.
(1:21) They all jump out of the window, landing on wet stones. The germans start firing from all windows, but in vain. The three americans start running torwards the escape vehicle. Once inside, they start the engine, and drive away.
(1:25 - End) On the way, the prisoner reveals to both of them all the crucial information he has learned till now.
I also thought of another scenario with this song:
Metal Gear the movie featuring Chuck Norris
You've got to admit that would be kick-ass :D
Hope you enjoyed all of this. Cheers,

GX3

SimPelyRocks responds:

wow.. This is the first time that I get such a long review. Thank you.
As you can hear, I am in a learning progress, and that's why I am very greatful to read your opinion. I also enjoyed your storyline. Now, I see that the long part (that was ment to be very emotional) is kinda boring. btw. the voice is not from a real singer. ;) (computer generated voice)
Maybe I can write something for one of your vids?? (nice stop motion vid btw) I already tried it with 'Twilight'. http://www.youtube.com/ + watch?v=B4P9eTCaPXE

[Cobra]

A third part is indeed a good idea

Instead of doing my usual; melody, instruments pattern, for once I'll start my review differently:
Well, overall it's quite a good song. I really have to agree with Haggard on this one, about the two parts, and I think adding this third part could make the song really good, giving it a little more action. About what apparently other people complained about, meaning not enough calm parts, I think there are fairly enough of those honestly. But what I'm complaining about, is about the fact that you call this classical rock, when what you should have really done is add a powerful, kick-ass electric guitar, yeah, that would have been awesome. Appart that, all the other instruments are good especially the horns that were quite powerful, and the melody is fine.
I ran out of things to say, so I'll do the scene:
On a clear night, a man can be seen running, and jumping from roof to roof.
At first we have no idea why. Scene filmed right in front of him; we see him running furiously, but we don't understand... yet. That's before we see a big, black, military AH-64 Apache helicopter chasing him. He knows it's right behind, but nothing will stop him now.
There's a tall skyscrapper up front. He's going to jump for it, even if it's a good dozen meters away. He runs. He approaches the edge, and delivers what could be his final breath. He falls just when the Apache opens fire. The many bullets hit the building up front, which detonates a small explosion, creating a rain of glass. The man manages to hang on to a pole, which throws him inside the building. Once inside, he starts to run torwards the roof. The explosion creates a small fire inside the building, the alarm goes off. The man keeps running torwards the top, and finally makes it. Once on the roof, he takes a quick look around and sees the Apache flying away.
For just a second there, he says to himself "It's over", just at that moment the military helicopter turns around. "I talked to soon...". There's only one thing left to do, jump. He stands back. The helicopter approaches. He starts sprinting, he comes close to the edge... and jumps just as the Apache opens fire. On the next scene we see him flying torwards the next building, and behind him, the skyscraper's walls getting riddled with bullets, windows shattered. He lands on the next building, while the one behind lets out another explosion, making the structure collapse to the ground.
He keeps running, using all of his strength, and all of his energy to save his life. The AH-64 Apache turns around once more, and this time flies real low and real close to the building roof. It's now right behind the running man. The edge is near. But he won't jump, not this time. Instead, right before the edge, he falls to the ground (of the roof), letting the helicopter pass by. It does as expected, and the next skyscrapper being very close, it doesn't have time to swirve away. Half of the vehicle hits the building. Burning bebris fall to the ground. The propellers smoke and stop. The engine starts swirling in circles, and falls to it's death, all of this while the man on the roof watches this with pleasure. "Game over my friend" he says.
Damn, that was a fun scene to make, funny fact; I originally intended to use the AH-1 SuperCobra for the story, but when I saw the AH-64 Apache, it looked way too bad-ass to not be used in this scene. Hope you enjoyed all of this!
Tell me what you think bro!

GX3

Step responds:

Wow, so this is how it feels like getting long reviews :D. Thanks, GX3! Ima happeh :P.

Well, I might have a bad interpretation of Classical Rock, but according to my friend, Classical Rock would be classical instruments such as strings, piano, brass, etc. playing along with rock drums. Oh well... Yeah, the third part is something I'm really considering. It will be hard to make since as I said I have to export the song every time, but I already have some good ideas for it, and curiously, reading your scene gave me those ideas :P.

Speaking of the scene, it was really great. I'm really impressed how well it fits with the song. On its own, it's already a powerful and gripping scene, but with this music playing in the background, I'm amazed how well it fits, and I can easily imagine what you portrayed in the scene. Damn, you really should learn flash, grab other people's songs and make awesome flash movies out of them :P.

Anyway, thanks for the awesome review and the excellent scene, keep up the great work, you've been an awesome help as always! Thanks again :D.

[Trein Wrak]

Great (different) song!

First review here. That's strange, a good song which everybody ignores... What a shame... Anyways, I'll be the first!
I must say, this is a very good sounding song, it's very cool. The melodies are quite original, and are good. About the instruments, their unusual for some reason, well maybe appart the guitar, the rest is... unusual. All of them together just sound different from all the songs on this site. But it sounds good, I like it! I wish they were more of these type of songs on this site... And, this sounds alot like a trailer song for some reason. I can easily see a trailer with this song, but we'll get to that. The guitar is extremely cool in this song, awesome guitar man.
What I thought was too bad, was the fact that the song wasn't concentrated on the guitar after 30 secondes, and that's too bad because in my opinion it was the best part of the song. So what I could suggest is this, maybe you could do another song, where you concentrate on the guitar, I suggest doing another because this song is great like this.
I guess I'll skip right to the scene:
We see a buisness man (George Clooney), in a suit and tie, standing in the middle of a desert, holding a black briefcase, just waiting there, looking pretty satisfied.
The story behind this man is a commercial and profitable dream. One day, at his basic desk and office, something hit him. An idea. He decided to create the biggest railway ever built. He said "I will build a railway that goes all over the U.S.A.". And that's where his journey started. A journey that brought him in alot of different places, where he had to face a lot of different people.
So he started going to places like Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Mississippi, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Wyoming, even Canada, and to each place its problems. The people in certain places got pretty rough when he showed up, sat down and said "Hi. We're going to build a railway that'll cross your state/country." like those folks up in Canada. Others were just too short on cash to contribute to this project. Of course, some people were very ok with it and accepted, but others just stood there, not knowing what to answer...
So he kept going, managed to get half the project starting. And after a good couple months of investments, the railway was torwards completion, despite the encountered law suits and court sessions during the project.
And now, there he is, in the Nevada desert, waiting for a squad of trucks to arrive. He's always the first to arrive. He sees the trucks in the distance. He smiles. He's satisfied.
Hope you enjoyed the scene!

GX3

Tombor911 responds:

yeah its awesome. but i am sorry thats all i can say. its too awesome for words. lol

[Wander Mecha]

Unorganized

This song was really unorganized, that was it's biggest problem.
The simplistic style in the beggining gave a real horror feeling to it until 0:40. What was too bad was the fact you used that asian instrument, because in my opinion it didn't go at all with the rest of the song with it's horror/industrial sound.
Honestly, the song really isn't that great, mostly because it's kind of mashed up, and certain instruments should be reviewed by you in my opinion. So I'de suggest working on organizing it better.
I think the scene goes better with the 40 first seconds of this song, but it's probably not that bad with the rest, you tell me:
Pacific ocean 22:57 P.M.
Onboard the "Wander" cargo ship
One of the crew members wakes up on the floor of the ship. He stands up, looks around, he's all alone. Where are all the others? Why was he asleep on the ground? The ship gently rocks back and forth. Most of the lights are off.
He walks around, calling out to see if someone answers. Nothing. He keeps walking around. He goes torwards the dormitories, hoping to find someone. Upon arriving there, he checks the rooms, nothing unusual. But when he arrives at the last one, he switches on the light, and sees blood everywhere, splashed on the walls.
He stands back, frightened, and runs away. He keeps running, but all of a sudden a tortured scream can be heard. He stops, frozen. It came from the engine room. At that moment, he could have taken one of the lifeboats and go away. No he SHOULD have done that. But instead, he goes torwards the dark engine room.
He opens a trap and goes down. He arrives inside, its all dark with rusty machines everywhere. He slowly walks past the first couple of loud machines... That's when he sees the crew. On the ground. In bloody pieces. Making the entier room blood red. He hears a clinging noise behind him, behind one of those dark machines. He slowly turns around. The last thing he sees, is something jumping on him while letting out a horrible ear bleeding screech.
Was it some beast, that was hiding there all along? A sea creature that came on board? Or perhaps a crew member gone mad? Or maybe was it all a simple nightmare? Even I don't know...

GX3