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My votes...
1. je5/Lix Tetrax
2. soniccathedral/twinkle
3. wintermute/blade
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soniccathedral/twinkle
Nice mellow feel, a bit Underworldish - in a good way, love the way you've played out the delays, I could see this developing further to enhance the key changes.
7/10
umbrellasounds/end of the summer
Twisted and mechanical, like the fractured percussion sounds, and the pads are great, nice production too, seems to lack a determined breakbeat or something though - keep expecting a rough rhythm to kick in.
6/10
wintermute/blade
This is cool, it's like a movie soundtrack, the bass keys sound like a film I've heard, then the chords come in and it all comes together. Really nice production and separation. I'm not a fan of high pitch vocals, too many memories of the old hardcore days, but in this context the sample works well.
7/10
funkyken/telectro
Ah, a nice proper bit of house beat, decent.
Sounds a bit distorted, especially the low end and the extreme highs, but that's OK.
Like the samples, the transformed horns especially.
I've played this kind of thing out before and if the distortion was a little less I'd play this out no problem.
7/10
je5/Lix Tetrax
Some really amazing sounds, nice technique here with the drum programming, must have taken ages to get those hi-hats rolling like that.
Again, it's distorted at the top end, but cleaned up a bit I'd definitely play this out for its electro vibe and faithful dark sounds. Played it twice. This is my favourite.
8/10
hiccup/saturdayagain
This sounds more like the electroclash style of Ladytron, Fischerspooner, which I really like. Liked the samples, although I'm beginning to think it might be my headphones because this one sounds a little distorted to me too... the piano is a bit disturbing for some reason, in kind of a good way, nice work all in all!
7/10
jodal/blind as captain cat
Oooh, this is tasty, I'm keen on the vocal processing, and the break is nice, a good dubby flow there... is that a Mellotron pad running through it?
Reminds me of J Saul Kane/Depth Charge, nice one!
8/10
mwgdwrg_Yr-Oerfel-Fawr
Is it me or is this one distorted too??
The bass seems really heavy, but fuck it's good anyway...
This one really has the feelgood factor, the arpeggiation is superb, and with a few key changes and a longer construction with breakdowns, this would be a beautiful tune.
6/10
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This was really hard to choose between, as is always the case.
I'm thinking the distortion must really be there - because jodal's track was fine, as were the first three I heard, watch those recording levels guys/gals!
Maybe it all gets a bit crunched in the mp3 conversion process... having just played back my track the low end is a little bit crushed too and it wasn't when I was mastering it!
The overall standard is definitely getting better - we must have enough tracks for a really good diverse Urbanites compilation/mix CD by now.
Top work peeps!
1. je5/Lix Tetrax
2. soniccathedral/twinkle
3. wintermute/blade
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soniccathedral/twinkle
Nice mellow feel, a bit Underworldish - in a good way, love the way you've played out the delays, I could see this developing further to enhance the key changes.
7/10
umbrellasounds/end of the summer
Twisted and mechanical, like the fractured percussion sounds, and the pads are great, nice production too, seems to lack a determined breakbeat or something though - keep expecting a rough rhythm to kick in.
6/10
wintermute/blade
This is cool, it's like a movie soundtrack, the bass keys sound like a film I've heard, then the chords come in and it all comes together. Really nice production and separation. I'm not a fan of high pitch vocals, too many memories of the old hardcore days, but in this context the sample works well.
7/10
funkyken/telectro
Ah, a nice proper bit of house beat, decent.
Sounds a bit distorted, especially the low end and the extreme highs, but that's OK.
Like the samples, the transformed horns especially.
I've played this kind of thing out before and if the distortion was a little less I'd play this out no problem.
7/10
je5/Lix Tetrax
Some really amazing sounds, nice technique here with the drum programming, must have taken ages to get those hi-hats rolling like that.
Again, it's distorted at the top end, but cleaned up a bit I'd definitely play this out for its electro vibe and faithful dark sounds. Played it twice. This is my favourite.
8/10
hiccup/saturdayagain
This sounds more like the electroclash style of Ladytron, Fischerspooner, which I really like. Liked the samples, although I'm beginning to think it might be my headphones because this one sounds a little distorted to me too... the piano is a bit disturbing for some reason, in kind of a good way, nice work all in all!
7/10
jodal/blind as captain cat
Oooh, this is tasty, I'm keen on the vocal processing, and the break is nice, a good dubby flow there... is that a Mellotron pad running through it?
Reminds me of J Saul Kane/Depth Charge, nice one!
8/10
mwgdwrg_Yr-Oerfel-Fawr
Is it me or is this one distorted too??
The bass seems really heavy, but fuck it's good anyway...
This one really has the feelgood factor, the arpeggiation is superb, and with a few key changes and a longer construction with breakdowns, this would be a beautiful tune.
6/10
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This was really hard to choose between, as is always the case.
I'm thinking the distortion must really be there - because jodal's track was fine, as were the first three I heard, watch those recording levels guys/gals!
Maybe it all gets a bit crunched in the mp3 conversion process... having just played back my track the low end is a little bit crushed too and it wasn't when I was mastering it!
The overall standard is definitely getting better - we must have enough tracks for a really good diverse Urbanites compilation/mix CD by now.
Top work peeps!
Chuffed 
Nice one, praise from you lot is praise indeed 
