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New to the forum, not an avid dubstep producer but I dabble... here a couple of tunes I did, some old some newish.

Let me know what you think

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Soundcloud "Ive Been Watching You" is pretty much a future jungle/breaks track but I did sample a Burial track so thought I'd whack it in here anyway..

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Reality - like the piano and guitar samples in there, and the 2-step drum programming is lush.

Reality Breakbeat - heavy breaks don't sound like they've been forced in too much, good job.

I've Been Watching You - 90s rave vibes, really liked the programming and scratch effects in there on the drums.

Serenity Clear - Piano was a bit too uplifiting for me, had shades of mid-90s eurodance about it. Vocal is nice though and liked the dubstep drop towards the end.

The Spanish style guitar sample on Reality is wonderful and instantly made me want to go to the beach with a few fruit cocktails and chill the eff out. I found the way the vocal sample came in was a bit abrupt though. I don't feel its necessary in the tune at all. The vibes are great on this, i could listen to it all day.

Not much comment on the break mix, is it just the same tune with a break beat behind it?

Ive been watching - is nice at the start, the pad/drone is too loud in the mix however. Also the breaks don't sound very tight. This may be intentional but id be going in on them, it reminds me of early jungle/hardcore breaks but these days we are able to tighten them up with a Transient Shaper. Or just do some manual work on them, move them around by hand until they sit better in the track.

Interesting responses guys thanks for your replies.

I'm at the experimental stage with a lot of my tracks, pushing together sounds from different genres and seeing what goes. I used to stick rigidly to one thing but have found its fun to just dabble and fuck about with sounds in different ways. I also found that I could start out making a chilled out slow tune then it turns out to be some bass monster, I go wherever the music takes me.

Reality (original mix) was originally a chill out track but in the end stuck a dubstep/2 steppy sort of beat behind it and the ideas just spawned from there. The Breakbeat mix is basically the same but with a break underneath it to give it a different edge. Serenity again was a chill out track that morphed into a dubstep tune as you can probably tell as it takes ages to properly kick in.

Ive Been Watching You - was based around a Burial sample, and I went nuts changing up all the amens and what not and it sorta came out as this really weird atmospheric 140 roller.

Anyway thanks for your advice and opinions, always much appreciated.