Julian Del Agranda
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- Jul 3, 2020
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William Byrne - Thirty-Six [Pure Progressive]
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@william byrne
Nice to hear a track with such a touching backstory. The melody synths are really beautiful, and so are the chords and the breakbeat breakdown. They are nice and lovely, and they have indeed presented how you feel and how you relate to the past to some of the listeners, including myself.
As for the negative comments from tranceissomewhatalive, from my point of view, his (using "he/him/his" for convenience) taste for trance music is too narrow / specific. He gives positive comments, but for tracks that doesn't fit him, he does not attribute anything to his taste, instead he tries to pour his bad words out and criticise everything he doesn't like. Compared to myself, I found out he has a strong bias towards mainstream tech trance, as some tracks that doesn't stand out to me are good in his ears.
There is still one thing correct in what he said, which is the omelette analogy I have learned in my logic class: A non-producer can be a good critic in trance.
But sadly, he isn't.
He does have the right to say what he want to say in the forum (as long as he does not violate forum rules), but if we find out that he is overly biased and self-centered, full of prejudice, and shows little respect to the producers in the forum, we also have the right to criticise him, just like what I am doing here.
@Daysleeper has talked very much about it, even though in radical (and unkind) language. For me personally, I agree that sometimes a simpler rhythm / melody can be more touching in effect, but this one is overly simple for me.
However, if your memory of the past experience / parents / old house is what you mainly want to convey through the track, then in my viewpoint, this one did it.
Nice to hear a track with such a touching backstory. The melody synths are really beautiful, and so are the chords and the breakbeat breakdown. They are nice and lovely, and they have indeed presented how you feel and how you relate to the past to some of the listeners, including myself.
As for the negative comments from tranceissomewhatalive, from my point of view, his (using "he/him/his" for convenience) taste for trance music is too narrow / specific. He gives positive comments, but for tracks that doesn't fit him, he does not attribute anything to his taste, instead he tries to pour his bad words out and criticise everything he doesn't like. Compared to myself, I found out he has a strong bias towards mainstream tech trance, as some tracks that doesn't stand out to me are good in his ears.
There is still one thing correct in what he said, which is the omelette analogy I have learned in my logic class: A non-producer can be a good critic in trance.
But sadly, he isn't.
He does have the right to say what he want to say in the forum (as long as he does not violate forum rules), but if we find out that he is overly biased and self-centered, full of prejudice, and shows little respect to the producers in the forum, we also have the right to criticise him, just like what I am doing here.
On the other hand, Daysleeper's opinion gets my point. I also care a lot about rhythm when I listen to trance tracks. The rhythm here is just like a regular prog house (yes, prog house) piece, with few variations, which is the downside for me of this track. I am still expecting to see tracks like "Last Time" (Original) and your remix for "Sincere", which are both awesome in my perspective.
@Daysleeper has talked very much about it, even though in radical (and unkind) language. For me personally, I agree that sometimes a simpler rhythm / melody can be more touching in effect, but this one is overly simple for me.
However, if your memory of the past experience / parents / old house is what you mainly want to convey through the track, then in my viewpoint, this one did it.
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