Obi strikes back

[obiwan]

What do you lot think of these?

Garage 2, sorry about the name
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0H1L1Q5M

Rave keys, ditto
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KTYN4NDH

Devil's chorus
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YAFBCKW7

and Pulsar
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WWN3LTNO

[shonky]

Listening to these but they're just sketches really. The mixdowns seem quite off, drums are never quite loud enough and you don't add enough to the arrangement to stop it getting monotonous.

Having said that, there's some nice elements in the samples here - think Devil's tunes got some pretty, melodic elements to it, and the chord progression doesn't go where you expect it to. Think maybe if the drums were a little more funky underneath it that would improve matters loads.

Think Garage 2 with a more garagey beat underneath it would sound pretty good, but it sounds a bit leaden with the drums its got. The bass line would work well with a few more switch-ups in the rhythm

Like the muted trumpet in RaveKeys and the dubstyle bassline, but the drums sound really weak

Pulsar just doesn't really have enough to it, but I think it might make an interesting other section for 8 bars in one of the other tunes.

Think they've all got potential, I just think you need to work on them a bit more, add a few more elements and variation and work on the mixdown better. Be quite up for hearing some of these once they're fully done as it's good to hear stuff that isn't unremittingly dark (guilty as charged).