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new track attack of the fembots up now along with a new malfunction mixtape all made in ableton.

tell me what you think about the sounds i tweaked!

www.myspace.com/robbedbyrobots

much love

well done!

Thanks man i really appreciate it! have any tips on what to work on?

Just listened to it again. Soundwise I can´t give you any tips, to my ears it sounds quite good. As far as the arrangement goes, it´s pretty good too and I´d leave it as it is, but generally a song is more remembered if its buildt up in a more transparent way. Like ABABC or whatever, you know. In the first 8 bars you introduce the melody, and then you keep building variations. I really like those first bars, maybe you should come back to that rather simple line of the beginning at some point, to get the message clear. Thats the only thing I could say about the song, that in my opinion it would benefit of a bit more simplicity. I do think the sounds can take it without becoming boring.

i thought the same when i was arranging it, but then i overthought the whole thing. Thanks alot for the arranging tips to me that is prob where i need to work on more. Its the arranging of a song that can make a big difference. Thanks a lot for taking the time to shoot me some pointers!

much love

My pleasure. I guess the problem is that while arranging, one listens to the song over and over and in the process often becomes bored with its simplicity, then one keeps adding twists, building on structures that at some point are only in ones brain and not in the actual song anymore. It would be ideal if you could format your brain every time you listened to it, hearing it every time like the first time. But let me say again it is quite good as it is now. And also you have a nice pseudonym, robbed by robots is a great name.