1. Redpanda13 : Somebody’s there
Wow. You’ve got something with this song. I truely like your work on the “gated sounds and vocals”. Combined with your science of sound design, it brings an ethnic, futuristic, and a “mystical depth” to this track.
2. kurtz/lapiNIC : She left the apartment.
I auto-like so much my own track, because… because of formants, lol, and maybe slow strings. Slow strings, it induces in me, some cinematographic visions.
3. Msymiakos - Unfurnished jungle
It would be a fantastic moment if an akai mpc performer could play live and reproduce the jungle beats of this track.
4. EatMe - It’s Hot in Here
It reminds me some instrumentals from old - but - good 80ies songs (without the lyrics on them). Interesting to be so easily projected backward in time thanks to your music.
5. Michal79/Mios - Still not home
I like the free mind behind the lead solo, extremely well done, it requires a lot of talent to do a good lead like that in a tracker.
6. Carnonthief/TheftofCarbon : Security Deposit
Using a tracker to make a “realistic metal song” has never been an easy path but unexpectedly the result is quite good, I’d just mixed slightly differently the choirs at the beginning of the track (I’d lower the choirs presence at first then I’d increase it when the track goes on). But this is not something a slider in the mixer can’t fix, anyway, the overall experience is excellent.
7. Raegae System : Fill With That
Interesting to hear such an elongated voice after 1:35. It’s nearly similar to some special techniques used by zen monks and some buddhists to achieve consciousness awakening during their meditation.
8. Sokoban/Ghismart : Alone in the Dark
It’s simple, effective, and fun ! A little but true bit of Poetry, in this too cold mechnical computerized and digitalized world… (lol)
9. Hanz Meyer Lab - Never Stop Moving On
Man I really like this kind of retro-mix. Thank god 80ies will never die. You can maybe do a collab with EatMe :)!
10. Uilo (W lo W) - Alternate
Hey nice to see you there :] glad you’ve participated :] and I’ve found your lolcat ! :] :] :] You track is minimalistic, indeed, but because of it, we know you’ve carefully selected each sound of this warm and deep set of rain dropped music.
11. Komu - Freedom
Hey Komu GREAT WORK I didn’t expected this lead guitar and melodic approach, really refreshing. I like the beat, the subtle vowels/formants (yeah I like formants me too!). And I like the kind of multitap delayed reed organ you used. Only good things in this song. Hats off !
12. basicmethods - 2016 Mb9 Master
It’s a well produced track ideal for a party with champagne and well dressed girls.
13. Mars64 : MutantBreakz9
Even if I would have expanded a bit the stereo field somewhere in the mix, I have to admit that this song is very well done, as usual… this one has style and elegance, maybe due to the brilliant usage of trumpets in it.
14. Acodreon - Empty Room
At first it looks like the production of a schizophrenic band, where members are playing what they play, not paying too much attention about the others. But the result is an abstract structure with its own strong inner coherence and a regular emergence of an unexpected synergy.
15. ImmortalFlux - Laughing at the Thunder
At 1:32 there’s a pretty melodic line, a good starting point.
16. Jackie - The Decorator.
WOW you’ve got a massive sound design on this one, right “in my face”, I like the arps and the morphing / burning nervous reese bass. Really powerfull. Many thanks for structuring your .xrns file and instrument list / effects so clearly, it’s a real pleasure to “see” your song through the renoise 3 interface ! :]
17. sodiufas : Nightwanker
It’s somehow difficult and probably a long task to explain why and how you nearly “instantly feel” you’re listening to a “quality track” simply after 10 seconds of introduction, but it’s exactly what happens all the time when I double click on one of your modules. Good soundset, excellent mixing strategies, technically elegant and somehow inspiring. The most inyeresting part in this one begins at 2:25 when you let the deep sub bass expressing itself with just a few laser fx, my speakers liked it alot :).
18. Midi error : agoraphobia
This track has a true cinematographic potential. You’ve used a great synth pad in this one, it sounds huge, with the right amount of deep, resonnance, clarity, and bright reverb on it.
19. user3315860525 - Room Listener
You’ve got a true talent in sound design, melting these cold gated / reverse reverbs pads, with shocking resse bass impacts and some strange glitch noises, really makes it ; and the spectral signature of each one of your sounds is so unique that sequencing them produces a real pleasure, even if the mood of the track looks somehow a bit creepy.
20. JTPE/djeroek - Mudslingage
A quite obvious demonstration of completely free, fun, and unconventionnal lofi musical expression.
21. Stailer : New City New Life
If I know someone that always use the best possible set of instruments and effects available for his ideas, it’s Stailer. Stailer makes pretty songs, ready for airplay, that have style, that are well packaged, that systematically demonstrate a good understanding of the principles of any musical genre he explores. Today we’re in the field of the “electronica-demoscene type of production”, and it’s very well done, “as usual” I should say. I like the sequences and arps, in this one. They’re globally perfect when you use acapellas in your songs. And since this one has no acapella in it… let’s say that it has been a good thing to “add” this melodic “lead line” on the top of these sequences, your music starts to “say something” when it becomes more melodic, and less “under control”.
22. Ester SidAM 3 - 4
f = (breakcore + sid chipsound) / (BPM * loops)
23. 00.1/daemonarmada : roy robinson in dreams
After the brilliant “creep” remix song, I knew that you would completely change the mood of the original track and it’s once again excellent, the original material is “properly perverted”. I particularly like the piano substitution during the song, it’s just excellent. If you could do it again with an acapela of Hilary duff, or any Dysney top ten singer, it would make my day.
24. Danoise/Glixxando : The downstairs
“The downstairs”, mixes orchestral strings and 8 bits sounds, in a nearly perfectly executed compo. And… Lofimat rules ! What I enjoyed the most is the retro-strings in the background, they don’t seem easy to mix, but I like them so much that I regret a bit you’ve not decided to increase more their presence and put them even more, in the front of the stereo listening field…, or maybe if you could “expand” the stereo image of this superb instrument, the track would be 100% perfect.
25. MattD : Expansion Port
It makes me think that in a potential near future, gray aliens (zeta reticuli type), will probably chose a Nintendo NES, to record their “national anthem”.
26. Burital : Robochip
Yes :] I always knew Robots were stuck in loops of pain and suffering where they develop consciousness between two brain resets. BTW, it’s always a very, very good idea to melt drum & bass structures, with a good rap/hip hop acapella. I initially believed you’d have robotized this acapella so that the track would be very coherent with its own name. Anyway, very good track !
27. Redman/Mugmouth - V9
After a good sound design exercise and slow build up, I was on the verge of finding this song too thin, and too repetitive, but came the acid tb303 chaingun type of sequence at 2:00… it is so energetic ! The composition reveals its full power in a non stop frenesy increasing until the very end. You could not do better to make my day. Definitively one of my best moments of the MB9 !
28. crash_noise_division : Must Sleep in Tub
The serial killer ritually aligned dead corpses of his victims in a room, trying to achieve a kind of uncomplete artistic message. The cops nearly catched this serial killer… too bad for them, in the end, the serial killer trapped them and killed them in his deadly room… and while the movie ends like that, in the theater, you can clearly hear crash noise division’s track, in the background during the credits.
29. Geteon : Affordable Housing
I wasn’t prepared for that. Fold distortion rules yeah hahaha :]. I needed a cotton stem to remove the last bit of cerumen in my right ear just before starting this kind of track. It starts like a typical retro-gaming experience for 4 years old kids, and then brutally smashes your auditive cortex with no mercy during a kind of nuclear Lofi 8 bit raging total war.
30. TheBellows : Refurnish
I kinda like these strange ideas and the mood of your track, the power of renoise is in your hands. I like the overall spectral design of your soundsets, the unexpected changes, your music seems unpredictable (and it’s a quality I appreciate)… and you’re able to provide mixes that combine presence AND clarity, this last one makes no exception. Excellent work !
31. Vaeprism/Abyssus : unfurnished mutant
I.S.D : Impressive Sound Design. (Impressive download too hehehe) I cannot imagine the huge amount of work all this track represents. The sound is massive, “in your face”, it is really inspiring, I can see visions of mutants, technologically advanced species, living in a completely exotic and abit frightening world.
32. The orden of electro - Side A
At 1:28, the arpy sequence changes everything.
33. Chunter : This is your home now
In the quantic domain of mind decision based of electric impulses of superposed brain synapses, I could probably vote for this one, MaYbe, depending of the way an observer collapses the .WAV function.
MY 3 RECOMMENDED TOP TRACKS :
Redman/Mugmouth - V9
TheBellows : Refurnish
00.1/daemonarmada : Roy robinson in dreams
