WANKER OF THE WEEK:
Just in case you needed anymore evidence that Deadmau5 is a dick;
[From Deadmau5s Facebook, linked by illictronix]
try this one on for size:
Artwork : http://www.behance.net/QuintinCox
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for starters, the first thing that screamed at me was this image:
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/764/animation1ce.gif
looks strikingly familiar to my own branding i.e (overly kerned useage of Airal Black) which isnt to say i've invented it, however the co-incidence in this case more or less tells me that as a self-proclaimed "illustrator" you could have probably been a little more 'creative' than that.... so im going to thow "illustrator" out of the window on this one.
let's move onto your music... since your a producer as well by the looks of it.
http://www.myspace.com/officialtomdom
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official tomdom? as opposed to the unofficial one? okay... ill let that one slide for URL availabilities sake... fair play.
Stars (Original Mix) : great... first 3 seconds just went by... and already stinks to high hell with that fucking RGC Audio Vanguard preset lead... great i see where this is going to end up. How many keys does your midi contrller have? 2? because that all i can hear on my end, maybe my speakers are fucked up again... kick, check.... snare.... check... 2 notes... check.... ITS A HIT M8! ... oh wait... whats this coming in.... oh waheeeyyy!!! its FXPansions Strobe.... with 1/8ths notes.... this is some groundbreaking shit, even got it to play a whole chord. sweet. ... NEXT PLEASE.
Night Drive: took me exactly 1 minute from the start to get my head around to thinking
"whats this kick thing?" glad i didnt have to wait anymore... eyy 50 seconds in... hey! theres that familar thing again....no real substance here... just some stabby saws and a 4 bar measure of a resolving melody. I cant say this hasnt been done to death... im guilty of the same offence time and time again. but props for applying resonance to a filter... only the brave go there.
Operation Blade vs. Ghosts n stuff: nothing SCREAMS "i have no talent" like ruining 2 perfectly fine productions by Frankenstein'ing them together. Mashups are a plague on this earth... HOWEVER, ill give you credit for rescoring / resequencing the songs... but not so much for ripping the drumloop from my original.
Tondoms Theme: this is the only thing i actually like on here... for the first 14 seconds anyway.... then it turns into sidechainging gone terribly wrong at 90 bpm ending pretty abruptly with the start of some random fuckin hailstorm that only lasted for 2 seconds?
there you go dude... there my 2 cents... i dont think you should be producing this simple minded shit. Please stick to whatever it is you normally do.
I don't give a fuck what size mousehead you've got or how good you are with ableton live, no need to be a cunt to someone who critiques your dubstep.
More importantly, Why make dubstep in the first place?
It's for dirty people.
XN
