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[Street Party (Dustified Remix)]

Aight, here is arguably one of two contenders for my best song on this account.
The massive leap in quality from this and the previous song astounds me to this day. The melodies are structured really well, the song is structured well given that the original song was a loop, the instruments with the major exception of that flute in the second half (not my fault, fl mobile has a bad flute sound), are honestly really good. This is the song where I truly learned how to mix better: after this, I would use automation, filters, EQ, and more to make each instrument stand out in its own way. I really do like this song, and the outro.

[10]

There is a very interesting story behind this song.

It was first released as “10” because at the time it was my 10th song. Now, in between the funky family and wistfuljiffy 2, there existed a missing song: lunar abyss dustified remix. This was and still is the most popular song I’ve ever released, getting around 500 listens by the time I removed it from the site. The reason I did this was because it was just getting so much hate, hate it really didn’t deserve despite being a terrible song, and permanently destroyed my motivation to publish music on GarageBand and knowing I needed something better. It was the ultimate death of my more traditional style; where mixing and effects are used to make the music instead of the instruments, structure, or melody. As I mentioned, the song was called 10, but when I removed the lunar abyss remix it wasn’t the 10th song anymore. I couldn’t come up with a replacement name, so just cropped in the thumbnail (it was originally 10 in firework trails) and called it random song. This is where we are today.
The song’s history is way more interesting than the song itself; it’s decent but kinda bad at the same time.
Edit: lunar abyss dustified remix is now live! Go check it out and see just why I removed it in the first place.

[Dance Song]

A stepping stone in the evolution of my modern style of music. It isn’t very good, as it’s too simple, but at least I learned automation. It could use some level changes, panning, etc. Also, there are only 2 instruments which is a pretty major problem. Beat is boring. The final part before the outro was actually inspired by the progression of the Killbot drop believe it or not. But yeah, important but not important.

[Canonblade - Never Give Up (Dustified Remix)]

Terrible. “Melodies are very nice” isn’t an excuse, reviewer, because these melodies aren’t mine. They’re canonblade’s. The drop is so weird; this is my first song of many made on FL studio mobile, the program I use today, instead of GarbageBand. Whoops, I forgot to put reverb and use Param EQ on every single instrument. Whoops, my basses in the drop, since this was meant to be a dubstep song, I spammed all the effects I could and it sounds awful. Whoops, forgot to make a good outro. It’s all just... bad.

[Orchestral Experiment]

The review on this song, “Simple and Tasty”, partially inspired my modern music. It seems my strength is simple music, not relying on many effects to sound cool or anything, just nice and catchy for the masses. The descriptions on all my songs are removed and replaced with nonsense; I will explain in my final review on this account.

[wistfuljiffy 2]

When the thumbnail is the best part of a song and it isn’t even original, there’s a problem. This is garbage, and I didn’t think it was until just a few months ago but it’s so unoriginal and plays it so safe that it’s insulting to the creator to even listen to.

[The Funky Family]

I’m gonna rate this higher because it actually has a pretty decent beat to it. It does sound super superficial and like no bass but it’s still better than its predecessor. This song is entirely made in response to a review by TaintedLogic on the original, to which he never reviewed this one. In fact, nobody ever did. I find it really strange that all my songs on this account have hundreds of listens and it all happened a year after I stopped uploading. Anyways, probably my best song from the GarbageBand era.

[Entering the Haunted Mansion]

This song of mine is infamous in my brain for never getting a review or votes or anything. It’s pretty bad, mainly because I was and still am bad at cinematic music. The drop with the guitars sounds terrible until it ends, then it sounds bad but not as bad. The sound fx are bad; this song is the reason why I avoid using SFX as much as possible, even now. The melody being passed between many instruments, I, at the time, thought was impressive. Turns out that’s the case in almost every song ever, but they did it far better. The last section of the track is the best, but it doesn’t make up for the awfulness of the other parts.

[- The Minor Trance -]

This is ironically better than Reality in my opinion. The mixing is on par; the main flaw with the song is that the drop doesn’t really happen until halfway through the song. Also it ends suddenly. Other than that, catchy melodies and beats are decent. Good job
4/5