Reviews and comments

This one is deffinitely one of my favourites. Howie from Lunatic Calm, agreed to check out a few of my tunes, and her is what he said about them + a few words of wisdom:

Hey Skeet,
I've been giving your "LC Special Edition EP" (ha! I like the personal touch!) a good going over and guess what? It's not bad. Not bad at all, my son! I listen to quite a bit of unsigned stuff (I suppose I'm a wannabe A&R man) and, to be honest, most of the time it's a struggle to get to the end. But I've listened to your CD about half a dozen times, so it can't be all bad. There's some stuff on there I really like eg. your choice of sounds. I go in for dirty, distorted analogue (obviously!), and that rough edge immediately characterizes your sound. Once you've locked some sharp rhythms in with a nice phatt bass, you're half way there. You've also got a solid foothold in production techniques; using sonic textures coupled with panned delays etc. it's the attention to detail is often over-looked, but is vitally important to the stereo image and the overall finished feel of the track. I think you are in control of your gear; there's a balance to what you do and it sounds considered. You know what you like (plenty of musicians don't!) and you're not afraid to lay it on thick. I also think the EP gets better as it goes along.

Headbait is the best track (yes, despite the bass!) 'cos the ideas are strong (riffs and all) and the sounds are distinct from eachother, and they've been given the space to operate. The guitars give the listener something to latch on to, and the cool filtering keeps us locked on.

I like the edgy vibe of Baby Sinister but, because it's so dense, I struggle to come away from the track with anything in particular after I've listened to it.

Turbid Foundation again has some nice tough-tech funky chops, but maybe bounces around abit too much and suffers from a lack of direction as a result.

Micromodopolus is a cool track (despite sounding like a small dinosaur)

I had to ask what he meant by the dinosaur comment, and this was his answer: "Micromodopolus"... like diplodocus, or tyrannasaurus. (Just me beingsilly)." Funny dude :-)

, and exactly the right tip to have at no.3 on the EP (especially after the scramble of Turbid). Nice rollin' bass and twinkling
lead.

I have no idea what ambitions you have for your music. If it's purely a hobby for you, then it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. If you want people to dance to it, then that governs pretty much everything you do. There's no point in having dance music you can't dance to. If, on the other hand, you want to become accepted as an electronic artist in your own right, to be listened to in the home or in the car or even in a live venue, then it's important you establish an identity of your own. Some people use image more than music to make their point. Others, like DJ Shadow, have managed to carve out a niche of their own through the music. It's exceptionally hard for electronic artists to get noticed; there are millions of people all over the world making music on computers in bedrooms. I don't think you have to be the world's best producer, or the best studio engineer with the best gear, or the best DJ, or the best synth programmer, or computer whizz-kid, or any of that shit. But you do have to be individual, and unique. So don't be afraid to push your ideas right up to the edge, and over it if necessary.
The cliche "less is more" holds true (what you don't play is as important as what you do play). And if an idea is strong enough, it will stand up by itself. The best tunes are the ones that do one thing well (ie. not like Lunatic Calm!). Either by accident or design, that special X factor (impossible to describe but instantly recognisable when the shivers go up your spine) is what we all look for in the music we listen to, regardless of who we are or what we like.

Keep tweakin', my friend.
Best wishes, Howie Lunatic.

Here is another one that I got at Demorama :

A Techno with Drum and Bass solo project from Norway. This is strictly instrumental material, synth-heavy, with wall-to-wall sequencing and some guitar. We were asked to review the song "Micromodopolus" but I listened to "Unofied" also, as I wanted some additional context to base this on. I've gotta say, if the object here was to evoke the dark thumpy nightclub with the flickery colored lights, this was done nicely. There's a nice swirly organic layer riding atop the antiseptic sequenced structure of these songs, making them feel a whole lot less sterile than a lot of the techno one hears, and it also keeps it from sounding like an old Soundtracker file. These were also surprisingly and pleasantly short as this sort of stuff goes -- both songs are less than five minutes. On the whole, I'd say this is good stuff for the dark thumpy nightclub. With the flickery colored lights. (Conrad Teves)

And here is a weird and funny one from Conkuss :

Moskeeto - Headbait - Musings.

If there's one trait I love in a person or band, it's self-depreciation. That's why I maybe love bands like Type O Negative so much.
Forever bleating on about how shit they are yet producing worthy and complete works that demand your full and complete attenton.

Now then, onto Moskeeto's Headbait .

Like an unexpected shaft of cold metal up the ass, it's intrusive, nasty, perplexing and altogether unpleasant (especially first thing in the morning). For this fact, I love it (Although saying that, I wouldn't really look forwards to an ACTUAL shaft of cold metal up MY ass, it's merely a metaphor. Honest.).

Music should be a challenge I feel, and facing up to the challenge of listening to something as disjointed yet fulfilling as this tune is a task I absolutely relish. The acidic feel to the music coupled with the almost paranoical drum/percussion work makes for an excellent and challenging listen.

Top class - Moskeeto is an artist I'll definitely be listening to more of in the future. I'm just sorry I haven't sampled his works before.

If I can fault anything about it, it would be that this song is missing lyrics, missing a vocalist.

All in all, two thumbs up. (not up the ass though).