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As I listen to this, I feel the urge to make sure there isn't anything on my roof poised to fall on my head... Don't think I've heard a trombone quintet before but this sounds fantastic. Love the flow from the beginning to the almost triumphant middle section to the chaos of the final section before that gorgeous chord you end on. Reminds me a bit of the brass section cutting through in Balada's Gurenica. Nice manifestation of "break the rules".

twenty-eight instruments... goddamn!

You flow smoothly through all of your melodic ideas--break them along with the rules--and revisit them later. I like the motif at around a minute in. It's like the musical equivalent of an absurdist painting, or what I'd hope to hear in a mind/reality break section of a game.

Is that your cat?

Your piece is dizzying, like you are trying to follow a some horrible curve given by trig functions. Or perhaps gazing back down at the valley floor in the lee of a ridge.

You used the "bad connection" effect well as a rhythmic device. Your bass synth slaps. Did you drown the explosion sfx in reverb? Whatever you did, it fits in well with your mix.

And you fly all the way up!

There's parts which sound like the guitar starts a synth pad and they're gorgeous. Nice track, nice mix.

Holy shit alright -- haha! Really captures the power of tectonic forces. Rules? What rules!? You've earnt that completion rating.

Your synths are great man, that stutter-esque effect feels like controlled randomness or incidental rhythm. Love the airy pads/noise that fades in and out--there's a gorgeous one you isolate at the end. Well done!!

Your pads are lovely, and the interplay of your synths is to great effect. I like your drums.

I really like the pad you used! Really nice round sound. "Mountains Lullaby" is a fitting name, kind of calmly suspended on a precipice.

Your mix is clean as hell, and I like your sounds. The bass and the plucked sounding synths are great.  There's a bit around 2:41 ish where the string-sounding synths comes in after the plucked-sounding one, and it's so satisfying. Your piece fits together smoothly.

Your piece keeps a sense of momentum as it builds on itself. The textures are fantastic--especially your manipulation of the humming-sample. Your rhythm feels like it's in snaketime--very groovy!

Your transitions are fantastic (and I am not the first nor last to comment on them)! You flow well between similar genres and dissimilar ones. The drums and bass keep the  more energetic sections moving. 

I really like the lead in the psycore section psycore sections slaps.

I liked the melody around ~40s in, dipping into optimistic before lulling into contemplative. You put a lot of thought towards how the melody and the harmony interplay, and it shows in the work.