Thirded!
I am not lying when I say that I'm genuinely interested in EVERY one of these samples you posted...clip after clip, I was like "ahh gotta tell SBB he needs to complete this one", "oh wait, no definitely this one", "oh wow, this one needs to be finished too". All of them are very creative, stylistic and worth taking the time to finish. It's amazing how much you've blossomed into one of the premier european electronic musicians over the years right before our own very eyes :')
But I did have FAVORITES:
00:23
-Anything that use harmonic minor I for. I really like the drums and baseline. Sounds like an awesome intro to a good DnB song.
00:43
-Real creative. A bit reminiscent of snoballanthemonyshot if you remember that fellow. I really like the lo-fi drums and the jazz harmonies
00:57
-Nice man. Somewhat like the music in the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack. It has a pop-oriented catchy beat, but packs lots of sophstication in the exotic drum choices. The song really got interesing when the vibrato lead line came in with the airy pads. The demented bassline is tight as hell
1:19
-Now this is where it's at. Probably my absolutely favorite of the bunch. Compositionally it's fairly minimal, but the groove fucking rocks and the bass is super smooth. I love the subtle hand percussion.
2:08
-Took listening to a few times until it climbed into my favorites amongst the others. The chord progression moves very nicely, nice contrast of color with the key changes. I especially enjoyed the guitar FX. Reminds me of a city underground or something.
3:05
-Probably my second favorite. This is some great jazz man. The bossa-latin style exemplifies your diversity in creating tunes. Sounds Pat-Metheney inspired. Enjoyable jazz chording, nice tasteful guitar soloing over the top of the progression. If I was to make a suggestion hear, I would roll off the tone some more on your guitar and make the string pads sound even more synthetic by layering it some and giving it a stronger chorusing effect. Maybe through in a shaker and conga percussion eventually. Even a flute contributing to the chordal texture would be sick.
3:36-Way to quirky and original of a piece to pass up. The lead reverby synths are COLD. I like how the tiny bells and dings contrast nicely with the big rolling bassline, as if something's brewing in a mad scientist's lab.
4:09-I love the formant synths. The melody flows really well. Drum lines are very well sequenced and sampled.
4:48-Reminds me of radiohead, with your synthesizing intuition worked in. Can't say it's exactly my style, but just as it cut out and the chords started strumming, I yearned for more.
6:00-Gotta throw a nice ballad in there. I think meshing these ideas with the ones in the first sample would work great together.
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