Shaun posted up a couple tracks from the One Hand Loves The Other remix LP, and I’d figured I’d add mine into the mix as a quick addendum. Its not as readily accessible as some of the other stuff, and giving it an honest critique, I think the synth line is a little too hot and it looses a little focus towards the end. Overall its still a solid effort I think; I’ve gotten good reception from those I’ve let listen but I don’t expect it to be rocking out any dance floors.
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One Hand Loves The Other - Tortoise (Hacks Remix)
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if the goal is to rock out dance floors,
- alot more compression on the whole thing to increase the perception of loudness
- more distortion on the synth (I don’t think it’s too loud - it just sounds a little frail for its current loudness)
- how about holding the high note in the lead voice at 1:42 across the rest of the crescendo, breaking back in with a strong beat at 2:05? (you could bitcrush it after that point and it might sound cool.
- speaking of crescendo, seems like you’ve got the beginnings of one culminating at 2:05 but it just sulks away after that. kind of a let down.
- the synth’s pitch is somewhere in between a bass and lead synth, but i think you need a proper deep bassline
cool start. i really like the glitchy vocal sample and the meshed harmonies, just needs more balls to rock a dance floor.