What a busy week! Thanks everyone for the feedback, this feels like enrolling on a really cool music workshop
Here are my reviews, writing is actually very enjoyable, I take note^^
VΔƎPЯISM - θɜːmɪk [Thermic]
Elegant filmscore music… The dissonant, evolving chords strive towards harmony but the tension is never released. Lovely textures in the rhythm and the drum tuning really compliments the track.
Sodiufas – Glaciers
This one tricked my mind: a deceiptively simple pattern that is in fact hard to pinpoint. Of all the tracks in this list, I think it’s the most faithful rendition of what global warming sounds like. A quiet track, because in most cases dramatic changes hardly make a noise.
Stailer – Hymn to Nature
Unashamedly epic-sounding track with a sprinkle of cheese on top, in true retrowave fashion, this one is neon-coloured and I want to drive my spaceship to it. The mix is perfect (I am no sound engineer but yeah).
Garfferen – The End
This track is as light-hearted as the image illustrating it is spooky. Love the saturated 303-like Josh Wink sound in the middle, I would have liked to hear more of it. OMG is this a real 303? And I am very fond of the whole idea of a track within a track
Sokoban – Global Warning
Are you from Chicago? The dryness of the sound is an aesthetics in itself and it really works for me. Pure rhythm, nothing gets in the way. Clean and clear drums with lots of space = great dynamics. The flaged hi-hats get me going every time. Oh, and triplets!!
The Bellows – Global Warning
This is a symphony, or rather a fugue. From a proper composer (italics required), but in a tracker. Long but never boring, it picks up a theme in the classical sense and counterpoints the shit out of it. Go JSB!
BasicMethods – Systems Resilient
It’s not a landscape, it’s a feeling. I would happily mix this one between a Pepe Braddock and an Andrés track, trust me I am a DJ! (that’s a lie). Quite addictive this one. I find myself coming back to it again and again. Warm, soulful house.
Wurzëlgemuse – Gigantomanie
It’s not a feeling, it’s a landscape. I would happily mix this one between a Phuture and a Joey Beltram track, don’t know what I’m talking about but I’m sure it’d be great. It has a foot in the past and another in the future. Cold, progressive and hypnotic.
Maya Azem – Climate Sceptic in the Antarctic
Mmm this lacks structure. You could have used the glide function better, the filter automation is meh, and take note from my experience: using the Master Bosst Xtreme Maximizer preset to seek validation from your peers is not going to hide your mixing skills insecurities, rather the opposite.
Lilith 93 – Climate Change
You sampled Obama and I sampled Trump, you definitely have better taste than me. I’m pretty sure I can hear that good old BackwardsPW.xrni, this is a hidden gem. I like the way things evolve, there is a huge variety of sounds and parts. It took me several listens to realize that, because it is subtle.
Redpanda13 – ManBearPig is Real, I’m Cereal
The bass and drums in this track make it ooze with groove. Redpanda13 is so decent that he probably felt it was indecent to have a fun music contest about such a serious subject matter as climate change, trolled it with great class and elevated it to the next level.
Machinae Wolf - Thermal Reflections
There are so many great ideas in this track, but I wish it was a bit more repetitive, as strange as it sounds: things evolve too quickly for my slow ears to pick it all up. Great moment at 0.35, wouldn’t mind to hear more of it.
FX Send – Puffin Iceberg
This one feels very organic, it has that hardware + Renoise vibe that I love. Although a Korgian person myself, I am in love with this Roland sound! Great conversation between machines, and broken Aphex-like rhythms.
Lusd – 0.67
An underground bar with lots of neon lights where zombie-bikers that are up to no good gather at night to drink black vodka shots. Something nasty is about to happen.The song itself is more of a shot than a long drink:)
Komu – Dawn of a New beginning
This one is a slow burner. It distills a morphine-like substance in your veins and before you know it, its dark tentacles have wrapped a dark cloak around your shoulders. Subtle minor/major changes in harmonies and a very discreet amen-like break give it swagger.
Fosterr Gump – 128.7553
In this list, I would say you are the most skilled in the difficult art of dissonant harmony, it’s daring and spontaneous and it works. I actually like the dense, gluey sound, and the progressive vibe. The last minute sounds like there is a sequel to this.
Sunnk – Heat Death
I this track was an actual person and I saw it from a distance, I would cross the street in order to avoid it. I have never been beaten up with a fire extinguisher but this is an insight into what it must feel like. Not going to play this at the bingo, but hell is it awsome.
Reagae System – Local Cooler
It’s official: Renoise has now broken free from its robot condition and has mutated into a half-human, half-machine being. It has developed feelings and learned to play the guitar and to speak finnish and to try things out. Never thought it would happen in my lifetime. Never heard a Renoise track with so much human elements in it