Hello, simishcj! Here I go with my review for your entry.
I listened to the YouTube version of your entry with closed-back headphones.
Track by track review:
1. Aquatic Module
Fantastic underwater vibes, feeling very very organic. You achieved a great texture with your samples and the interplay with the subtle drones and downtempo beat is cool and very soothing. I also love the concept of Utopian-Scholastic genre! I listened to it with eyes closed the first time and it was beautiful. The second time with the images it felt whymsical and the selection of pictures and editing really contributed to the experience, leaving me feeling like a kid again at the science museum.
General impressions:
Cool experience leaving me with a smile on my face and transported to your subaquatic aquarium world, with a hotdog and soda included. Lovely entry. I really liked the outro with those bubbly sounds and the little guy at the picture at 2:32 down at the left completely stole the show for me!
Ratings by category:
Execution: 5/5
I found the quality impeccable, both in mixing, sample work and instrumentation. Great usage of dynamics and pacing.
Vibe: 5/5
The atmosphere was very interesting and unique.
Composition: 5/5
Very nuanced and well-developed piece. No mistakes found. If I had to (unnecessarily) nit-pick, I would say the percussion pattern starting at 1:08 became a bit repetitive, but that's just my impression.
Listenability: 4/5
I enjoyed it so much that I listened to it two times.
Correlation to Theme: 3/5
I think in this regard this might be the less strong point of your entry. I can feel the aquatic characteristics, which are extremely well done, but to me the track lacked the "secret" part, maybe because of its downtempo chill-out nature, and also departed from the picture, as the flute chosen worked perfectly with the rest of instruments and the context, but felt more Andean than coming from the Far East.
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As we discussed in Discord, for this jam I am starting to use a rating rubric/template in order to rate more consistently and make my feedback more insightful for the person I am rating. It is available here in case you wanted to check it out: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LEz4pyyHR7iQ75W2IFjA22odaeDNmdm-/view
