Live listen review:
Remind:
Nice sounds, but too loopy. It feels like my unfinished tracks: a nice concept or sketch, but not yet a full track. An ok intro i guess, though i would have loved this to be a full track with more parts. The alarmesque sounds on the background really add to the tension in this. Like epic shit's about to happen.
Let's find out!
Predict:
Hell yeah, i loved the original of this one, the hyper gated saw sound and those trancy organs and pads, the wobbly bass.. musically i love this track.
But now! Vocals! It fits! I have no other words for it, except it doesnt sound mixed quite right. It sounds too seperately recorded and mixed. Personally i would've cut a bit of high and add a different reverb. Other than the mix i think the vocals are fine.
Hypnos:
I get this ''anime intro song'' vibe to it. I can see a gazillion AMV's for this. That's a bad thing in my opinion, as that means it's a very uhm, what's that word, regular? Anyway i don't get a specific vibe of this. It's just too standard.
I have forgotten already about it now that i am listening to the next song, namely..
Genuine:
Damnit. I hate this track. I hate the original. I hate the album this is featured on. Why? It was the first Hora album i actually bought. I didnt listen any previews or downloads. I was expecting the dark and emotional stuff like Inner Universe and The World but instead i get RAPED by a bunch of looped-to-death preset sounds.
I hate this song and not even Kaya can do anything about it as he's just following that annoying chorus line.
NEXT
Sirius:
Awrite. Much better, nice sounds, funky drums, the ''old skool'' sounds of the drums work pretty good. Indeed a laid-back flow, a bit end-of-summer-ish, where you think about all the good and bad things that happened last summer. A bit melancholic if you will.
Yes i love this, it makes me think, it touches my emotions.
...but it get's a bit boring after a while. There's no climax sort of moment.
Damnit, track's over already?
Horadude, you should have totally done more with this track musically!
Nice track, definately worth listening again.
Verdict for now:
An OK release, though indeed more of an Another Cell record rather than a Schwarz Stein record.
BUT!
What gave Schwarz Stein their sound was the ''primitiveness'' of Hora's instruments at the time. They sounded very ''90's'' to me. While this sounds very modern.
I think this is what SS would actually have evolved in if they never broke up.
Anyway: An OK EP. No more, no less.
Faves: Predict and Sirius
Remind:
Nice sounds, but too loopy. It feels like my unfinished tracks: a nice concept or sketch, but not yet a full track. An ok intro i guess, though i would have loved this to be a full track with more parts. The alarmesque sounds on the background really add to the tension in this. Like epic shit's about to happen.
Let's find out!
Predict:
Hell yeah, i loved the original of this one, the hyper gated saw sound and those trancy organs and pads, the wobbly bass.. musically i love this track.
But now! Vocals! It fits! I have no other words for it, except it doesnt sound mixed quite right. It sounds too seperately recorded and mixed. Personally i would've cut a bit of high and add a different reverb. Other than the mix i think the vocals are fine.
Hypnos:
I get this ''anime intro song'' vibe to it. I can see a gazillion AMV's for this. That's a bad thing in my opinion, as that means it's a very uhm, what's that word, regular? Anyway i don't get a specific vibe of this. It's just too standard.
I have forgotten already about it now that i am listening to the next song, namely..
Genuine:
Damnit. I hate this track. I hate the original. I hate the album this is featured on. Why? It was the first Hora album i actually bought. I didnt listen any previews or downloads. I was expecting the dark and emotional stuff like Inner Universe and The World but instead i get RAPED by a bunch of looped-to-death preset sounds.
I hate this song and not even Kaya can do anything about it as he's just following that annoying chorus line.
NEXT
Sirius:
Awrite. Much better, nice sounds, funky drums, the ''old skool'' sounds of the drums work pretty good. Indeed a laid-back flow, a bit end-of-summer-ish, where you think about all the good and bad things that happened last summer. A bit melancholic if you will.
Yes i love this, it makes me think, it touches my emotions.
...but it get's a bit boring after a while. There's no climax sort of moment.
Damnit, track's over already?
Horadude, you should have totally done more with this track musically!
Nice track, definately worth listening again.
Verdict for now:
An OK release, though indeed more of an Another Cell record rather than a Schwarz Stein record.
BUT!
What gave Schwarz Stein their sound was the ''primitiveness'' of Hora's instruments at the time. They sounded very ''90's'' to me. While this sounds very modern.
I think this is what SS would actually have evolved in if they never broke up.
Anyway: An OK EP. No more, no less.
Faves: Predict and Sirius