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Thank you! 

Yeah I agree, I definitely struggled to fit in as many "rule-breaks" as I'd have liked to but I'm glad you liked it :)

Thank you!

Glad you liked it :)

Thank you very much!

Thank you so much :)

Glad I'm not the only one haha!

some serious rulebreaking here!

good use and control of the orchestra and some nice melody and harmony in amongst the discord and chaos (which is also good!)

quality stuff, great synth tones and love the freeform structure and approach to melody and rhythm that still feels coherent

nice one, simple but effective!

this is a crazy one!

never knew what to expect next but it all linked together well and the rule-breaking parts worked very well

Really like those guitar bends and the instrumentation choices in general are very good!

Like the whilstling and humming a lot

All the sounds work together very nicely and you've got a clear and nice sounding mix

Good structure and a very nice ending

I think this really captures the feeling of the image!

Really nice emotional melodies and harmonies and a very clear and nice sounding mix

I think the ending works nicely too

Really like this one!

I like simple clean 8bit-esque sounds you use and you got a nice clean loudness on these.

The minimalism works very nicely, though there was a couple of spots in the first track that some parts felt a little bit too simplistic, really thought it worked very effectively for the other three throughout though.

Definitely captures the mountain feel.

Wasn't expecting the vocal samples on the final track but I liked them and what you did with them.

Some very cool and emotive melodies/basslines in this

You managed to pack a lot into just under 2 minutes but it all works together nicely and nothing feels rushed past

Can definitely hear the volcano/fire level sound!

Very nice stuff, can definitely hear the Hollow Knight influence without it feeling too close to it.

The piece develops very well as it goes along with the rises and falls in intensity

Really like the interplay between between the guitar and synths on this, lots of very satisfying moments!

Love this!!

Great synths and percussion, love all of the melody parts and pad washes.

Can definitely hear the Boards of Canada and Autechre influence, in a good way.

The shifts in key and harmony work very nicely too.

Really nice percussion

Like the synth parts a lot too, there's a good balance between feeling in and out of key

Like the chaotic melancholy vibe you've achieved here too!

Lovely piece of music! 

Nicely mixed and very emotional

Some good control over the modular here to create some very discordant/atonal and chaotic sounds that feel very controlled and do have a feeling of melody/rhythm

Really solid track here

Great use of tempo and time signature shifts & percussion that all feel very coherent

I like the pitched up vocal too

808 has a nice clean and weighty tone

The section that begins around 3:20 is probably my favourite but it's also so good because of the way it iterates on what came before it

Thank you! 

Glad you enjoyed it, I was thinking of something quite watery when I was writing it but I can definitely hear the scene you described in it and think it perhaps fits that even better!

Thank you!

I'm glad the Japanese ambient influence came through, I absolutely love Hiroshi Yoshimura, if you wanna check out a couple related artists who were more of a direct inspiration for this one have a listen to Fumio Miyashita & Shiho Yabuki :)

I'm glad you found the 'rule-breaks' effective, I thought this would be an easy challenge as I often use a lot of notes outside of the key but for some reason this one really wanted to stay in A minor and I could only fit in an occasional Bb with it still sounding good, so I had to go through the list and try out various others, I was also surprised at how a lot of the more subtle changes could be quite dramatic and effective!

some very nice sounds coming out of that eurorack! track has a great journey and development too.

I like the decision to record it as a live performance and include the video of yourself doing so too!

really like this track!

great choice of instruments, all sits together well really nice and it takes a lot of unexpected turns without ever feeling disjointed or incoherent

really really like the song and your vocals especially are really good, really fits the theme too.

but I would echo what gullo said, in that the lower notes on the piano in particular feel like they're maybe clipping or being pushed too hard into some kind of saturation/distortion that gives it a bit of an unpleasant sound so I'd recommend just being a bit more careful with your volume levels!

still very much enjoy the song though!

I thought initially the recording quality/mix was a bit too rough but once I was a bit further in I decided it actually works really well for the song and sounds good and pretty nice the way it does. 

I really like the more groovy take on hard rock/metal and the little ethereal guitar parts sound really nice.

having another listen, really love the bassline in particular on this one. nailed the beachy vibe and you take the track on a nice journey.

listening again, really love what you've done on this one and this new classical direction you're exploring

very summery!

thank you! will give yours a listen & rate

yeahhh, as I mentioned to a couple other commenters down below I didn't really have as long as I'd have liked to work on this one so was a little undercooked compared to what I'd have ideally done but I just really wanted to try and do something with the theme as it was a very cool one.

thank you for listening and I'm glad you liked what's there, will be sure to listen to and rate your entry!

thank you! will give yours a listen & a rate

Thank you so much, will check out and rate your entry when I get an opportunity!

Thank you, I only had a couple hours to get something done for this so I would have liked to develop it a bit more but didn't really have time, though I probably wouldn't have added much more as I wanted to try something very minimal.

Did really wanna try and get something done though as the theme is very interesting.

And yeah I took the waveform of a few bars of one of the instruments and tiled it for the artwork, was just something I could do quickly but I like how it turned out.

Will listen and rate your entry when I get a chance.

thank you, I only had a couple hours to work on this so it was a bit less fleshed out than I was hoping, but I did want it to be quite minimal and found the theme very interesting so really wanted to try getting something done for it.

Will give your entry a listen and a rate when I get a moment

thank you for listening and glad you enjoyed!

yeah I didn't really consider the story as something worth focusing on but after seeing the effort others put in it definitely felt it would have been worthwhile!

thank you!

no problem! :)

thank you v much for listening and especially thank you for the feedback! will definitely pay attention to that in future.

glad you enjoyed :)

oh wow, that sounds very stressful! 

i'm glad you still managed to turn out something good despite all your technical issues, I can't say I noticed it having any kind of negative effect! sounded great to me on my big speakers.