Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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| 1108 Redux        | こんにちはAirwindowsのChrisです  |    4   | Subtle use of the FX, fitted with the tune. Melody was a bit repetitive.
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| 5D Yogi           | May                                    |    4.5   | The bass beat sounded great but a little too overpowering in the mix but other than that, excellent track.
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| GMaq              | Funktionality                          |   4    | Fun track, nice fx in the breakdown part. Guitar levels bit too much at the 37 second section.
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| LAM               | HGT                                    |    5   | Fantastic use of stereo mix/fx 
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| NyxEles           | March of the warriors                  |   5    | Great dynamics and use of the fx.
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| MyLoFy            | Windows into the air                   |   4.5    | That lick at 2.13 doesn't sound right. Otherwise great track. 
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| Pulsing Bulb      | When i was young                       |   3.5   | Nice rhythm and instrumentation. Bit short and the vocals could have done with more fx to blend with the instruments.
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| Sahaathyva        | 04:30Am (A-Side)                       |    4   | Great use of the fx. Just a bit too long overall.
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| Sg75              | CPU Efficiency                         |   5    | Interesting track, great fx use.
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Great submissions as usual.
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Hi, here's my votes..

Thanks to @Sahaathyva and all of the other folks involved in organizing and handling the posting of the works!

Kudos to all of the participants, I don't have a lot in the way of comments, I'm kind of in awe of you EDM folks and my understanding of synths is quite limited so thank you all for the rich pallette of sounds and helping me to expand my listening horizons, there are some really cool ideas going on in all of the submissions for sure! It was very fun to get acquainted with the Airwindows plugins, I had thought they were kind of '1000 shades of subtle' before but I see they are much more than that and I've found a few to put in the favourites bin! For those who can't distinguish them in my composition rest assured they are being tweaked significantly!

In hindsight it appears I brought an old skool funk tune to an EDM party, lol probably about as cool as bringing the Macarena to a Rave but thanks for the opportunity to run with the big dogs!

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| Artist            | Track                                  | Score |
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| 1108 Redux        | こんにちはAirwindowsのChrisです   |    3.5  |
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| 5D Yogi           | May                                    |   5   |
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| GMaq              | Funktionality                          |abstain|
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| LAM               | HGT                                    |   4   |
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| NyxEles           | March of the warriors                  |   4   |
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| MyLoFy            | Windows into the air                   |   5   |
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| Pulsing Bulb      | When i was young                       |   3.5 |
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| Sahaathyva        | 04:30Am (A-Side)                       |   4   |
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| Sg75              | CPU Efficiency                         |   4   |
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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GMaq wrote: Tue Jun 01, 2021 3:25 pm For those who can't distinguish them in my composition rest assured they are being tweaked significantly!

In hindsight it appears I brought an old skool funk tune to an EDM party, lol probably about as cool as bringing the Macarena to a Rave but thanks for the opportunity to run with the big dogs!
I can't agree with you @GMaq. :wink:

Despite being an hardcore electronic music fan, I really like to listen to other genres, and the variety of different styles could only bring richness to this challenge and our ears.

As for your use of FXs I can hear them, they are just more subtler and not obvious, and as I said could be a merit, especially if your sound is already good.

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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Here are my ratings. I was blown away by the diversity and quality of these tracks! Great job everyone!

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| 1108 Redux        | こんにちはAirwindowsのChrisです  |   X   |
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| 5D Yogi           | May                                    |   5   |
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| GMaq              | Funktionality                          |  4.5  |
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| LAM               | HGT                                    |   4   |
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| NyxEles           | March of the warriors                  |   4   |
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| MyLoFy            | Windows into the air                   |  4.5  |
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| Pulsing Bulb      | When i was young                       |  3.5  |
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| Sahaathyva        | 04:30Am (A-Side)                       |   4   |
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| Sg75              | CPU Efficiency                         |  4.5  |
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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What a bandwidth, great tracks! Voting was hard. The choice between 4 and 5 is mostly based on my personal taste.

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| 1108 Redux        | こんにちはAirwindowsのChrisです  |  4.5  | This chord variation every now and then makes it stand out. Nice pads. Nice bitrod.
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| 5D Yogi           | May                                     |   4   | LOUD :) Keeps evolving and keeps the energy HIGH!
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| GMaq              | Funktionality                           |   5   | Not so much my genre, but hey, great craftsmanship and musicality! Anyone noticed the turning chair on the terrace? :)
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| LAM               | HGT                                     |  4.5  | Dark but the sequencer makes it almost joyful. The Andes-1 synth plays so nicely with the Airwindows plugins! Anyone noticed the shape of the wave form? A hidden message or just a fine piece of art?
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| NyxEles           | March of the warriors                   |   5   | Please continue to use lotsa automation, it sounds great and the different parts connect well together! Gives me SciFi/Space opera vibes with the tasty synths and the cool chord progression (my highlight is at 1:50!)
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| MyLoFy            | Windows into the air                    |   5   | I takes 3 or 4 times to listen before it gets catchy as h*ll. Much cool things to explore. Top notch production as always!
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| Pulsing Bulb      | When i was young                        |   4   | Very experimental. The piano and the voice are great, but I don't feel them connected to the drums.
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| Sahaathyva        | 04:30Am (A-Side)                        |   5   | This picks me up and puts me into a dreamy mood. Cool! The live setup is just awesome! The mix sounds a bit boomy at times in my head phones.
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| Sg75              | CPU Efficiency                          |   x   |
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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| 1108 Redux        | こんにちはAirwindowsのChrisです  |   3   |
Not much substance musically, but plenty of   v a p o r  atmosphere.
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| 5D Yogi           | May                                    |   2   |
Polished but generic. Didn't grab me.
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| GMaq              | Funktionality                          |   3   |
Some muddiness in the mix; perhaps you had the same problems I did finding a good general-purpose EQ. I like the downtempo section more than the rest. Not really my thing, though it's well played.
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| LAM               | HGT                                    |   4   |
Trippy, detailed and atmospheric sounds. Good automation.
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| NyxEles           | March of the warriors                  |   4   |
Chiptuney music is often presented in a raw and unprocessed way. Interesting to hear these sounds with acoustic elements and a thick, lush mix.
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| MyLoFy            | Windows into the air                   |   5   |
Prog! Inventive and fun, interesting effects, this is my fave.
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| Pulsing Bulb      | When I was young                       |   .   |
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| Sahaathyva        | 04:30Am (A-Side)                       |   3   | 
Nice sounds. However, I find it too dynamic to be ambient, too repetitive to be foreground.
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| Sg75              | CPU Efficiency                         |   3   |
Large synth sounds, nice effects, though the drums are thin. Samples of Chris are getting tiresome by this point.
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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bsg75 wrote: Tue Jun 01, 2021 9:38 pm Anyone noticed the turning chair on the terrace? :)
I noticed! Great @GMaq idea! :lol:
bsg75 wrote: Tue Jun 01, 2021 9:38 pm Anyone noticed the shape of the wave form? A hidden message or just a fine piece of art?
Except for the title, meaning Horizontal Gene Transfer, shouldn't be any hidden meaning, at least consciously. :lol: Now that you made me think of it I should have drawn the DNA helix better. :lol:

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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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GMaq wrote: Tue Jun 01, 2021 3:25 pm I had thought they were kind of '1000 shades of subtle' before but I see they are much more than that and I've found a few to put in the favourites bin!
LOL "1000 shaded of subtle" :D
"favourites bin": Same here! Beam :twisted: and Galactic 8)
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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LAM wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 5:17 am
bsg75 wrote: Tue Jun 01, 2021 9:38 pm Anyone noticed the turning chair on the terrace? :)
I noticed! Great @GMaq idea! :lol:
:D

In my mind's eye @GMaq hired someone to twist the chair according to a nuanced BPM schedule :wink:
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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LAM wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 5:17 am
bsg75 wrote: Tue Jun 01, 2021 9:38 pm Anyone noticed the shape of the wave form? A hidden message or just a fine piece of art?
Except for the title, meaning Horizontal Gene Transfer, shouldn't be any hidden meaning, at least consciously. :lol: Now that you made me think of it I should have drawn the DNA helix better. :lol:
:D and interesting topic. This mechanism transfers resistance to antibiotics from one bacteria species to another, doesn't it?
But to stay topic, so you did craft the wave form shape on purpose? Great idea! 8)
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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bsg75 wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 9:20 am :D and interesting topic. This mechanism transfers resistance to antibiotics from one bacteria species to another, doesn't it?
But to stay topic, so you did craft the wave form shape on purpose? Great idea!
The topic is much wider than that, could have, among other things, an important role beside the classical "evolution" mechanisms.

Anyway the shape was not on purpose in the beginning, is basically the drone/bass fed through Galactic, where it rises and decays slowly.

I saw that shape and reminded me about DNA.

I tried to create contrast between darker and brighter melodies and sounds (the transfer between different species :D ).

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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Here's my votes. Hope you don't mind some of the more blunt (and very opinionated) criticism.
Good job everyone for finishing yet another track!

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| 1108 Redux        | こんにちはAirwindowsのChrisです  |   3   | very interesting ideas at the start! then the whole track is unfortunately a bit repetitive
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| 5D Yogi           | May                                    |   4   | extremely well executed!
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| GMaq              | Funktionality                          |   4   | loving the groove and musical ideas! the whole-bar rest episodes felt a little too much. the slow section i thought was less interesting than the rest
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| LAM               | HGT                                    |   4   | lovely atmospherics and fat sounds :)
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| NyxEles           | March of the warriors                  |   -   |
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| MyLoFy            | Windows into the air                   |   5   | such a gorgeous track! in love with the chord progressions. the chill section was long but it actually managed to keep my attention throughout.
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| Pulsing Bulb      | When i was young                       |   3   | some interesting experimental stuff (and i love experimental stuff), but overall maybe not very convincing. voice was very good i thought, except for some places at lower pitches where it got muddied together with the rest of the mix
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| Sahaathyva        | 04:30Am (A-Side)                       |   5   | really cool atmospheric music! interesting enough to listen to for all of the lengthy 6 minutes (just about :)
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| Sg75              | CPU Efficiency                         |   4   | i thought the intro was super cool! but the rest of the track falls flat in comparison. drums feel a little weak
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Oh man, that was difficult, I changed the scores back and forth, being very indecisive, using decimals... So this is rather random, based on my personal taste.
Nevertheless, there has been much skill at work, and nice to see some first-timers to enrich this wonderful challenge.

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| 1108 Redux        | こんにちはAirwindowsのChrisです  |   3   | Lovely melody, I like the diminished chord on occasion, breaks the surface in a good way. The mix sounds very distant, there seems a lot of reverb/saturation, the lower mids are over emphasized imo.
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| 5D Yogi           | May                                    |   4   | Classic techno/trance piece, very well executed, mix is nicely open. The drop is lacking a bit of energy imo.
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| GMaq              | Funktionality                          |  3.5  | Kudos for the first full audio / no-synth submission in this challenge! A bit repetitive for my taste, though I enjoyed the intermezzo. A very nice diversification. 
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| LAM               | HGT                                    |  4.5  | Nice use of AW plugins and great soundscape, wasn't expecting a musical piece on the topic, there are certainly more songs are about VGT.
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| NyxEles           | March of the warriors                  |   5   | Sound-/Composition wise this was highly entertaining.
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| MyLoFy            | Windows into the air                   |  UwU  |
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| Pulsing Bulb      | When i was young                       |  4.5  | Vocals seem to be a bit buried in the mix, performance is great though. I really like what you've done to the drums, both programming and mixing.
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| Sahaathyva        | 04:30Am (A-Side)                       |   4   | This sounds so very old school in an authentic way I quite enjoyed incl. the B-Side 
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| Sg75              | CPU Efficiency                         |   5   | Nice variation in the stereo field, good mix and an excellent guest vocalist!
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| Artist            | Track                                  | Score |
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| 1108 Redux        | こんにちはAirwindowsのChrisです  |   3   |
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| 5D Yogi           | May                                    |   -   |
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| GMaq              | Funktionality                          |   5   |
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| LAM               | HGT                                    |   5   |
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| NyxEles           | March of the warriors                  |   3   |
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| MyLoFy            | Windows into the air                   |   4   |
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| Pulsing Bulb      | When i was young                       |   3   |
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| Sahaathyva        | 04:30Am (A-Side)                       |   5   |
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| Sg75              | CPU Efficiency                         |   3   | 
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Re: Libre Music Challenge #10: Air Music !

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Hello all,

I had to listen many times the subs and could not vote as i find all them super nice pieces !

Anyway i can't hide in the forest anymore, so after a 7th listening (yes 7) i f have fed mt voting sheet.

This was harder than ever :shock: , so notes are high for everyone, difference is made only on personal tastes.

Congratulations to All ! ! !

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| Artist            | Track                                  | Score |
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| 1108 Redux        | こんにちはAirwindowsのChrisです  |   4   | 
|Nice loop , sound so Lofish :) , more variety would have been nice, 
|but i think that is not this kind of music purpose.
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| 5D Yogi           | May                                    |   4   | 
|I feel 20 years younger when listening to this track :) ,
|very polished mix.
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| GMaq              | Funktionality                          |   4   |  
|I like Ole good funk too !!! Would have been better with vocals i think 
|(nice breaking part (Isn't the drum part too low VS the guitars ?)
|2:30 to 3:30 is my favorite part).
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| LAM               | HGT                                    |   5   | 
|So Galactic ! you gave me the will to try that new synth :D
|Super wide mix, sounds nice on headphones. 
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| NyxEles           | March of the warriors                  |   4   |  
|I feel 30 years younger when i listen to this track! ,
|Badass score, it needs a more polished mix, but i like it anyway.
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| MyLoFy            | Windows into the air                   |   4   |
|How do you make those drumparts? seriously! 
|Nice mix as usual, nice sounds selection
|Just lacks the usual madness i get in your tracks each time i hear them
|But i like prog rock too :D
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| Pulsing Bulb      | When i was young                       |   5   |
|Dig that bass sound , i feel a little Bowie and Nick CAVE inside 
|this track and the singer's voice! Congratulations
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| Sahaathyva        | 04:30Am (A-Side)                       | -o0-  |
|Yet some synth music . . .
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| Sg75              | CPU Efficiency                         |   4   | 
|Superb intro nice track, just felt a little mud in the mediums 
|in the mix, nice track anyway !
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