[Progressive House] Summer (Original mix)
 

http://soundcloud.com/dj-wongtong/summer-original-mix

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I wasn't feeling great yesterday, so I sat down at the piano and started trying random stuff. I came up with a chord progression I really liked, so I built it in FL. Needless to say, I just exploded with ideas after that. This is the longest song I've ever made, at about 6 and a half minutes. I hope you guys enjoy listening to it as much as I did making it. :D

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Dude this is quality stuff right here! really loving this chord progression.

My only complaint is that it doesn't have a super hard drop, but the rest of the song makes up for that. Though in the end the quality is nice, and it sounds very legit. Transitions are all nice and smooth, nothing really sticks out ( in a bad way)

We should totally collab on some house sometime, which FL do you have??

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Love it! I've become a pretty big fan of your music, (Hadn't really listened to too much from people here till the site came back) I just sent in Sunless Daybreak for the easy batch but will probably make a harder chart for it too. Anyways, keep it up :)

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@ Mans0n: I honestly think you should improve the quality of your own music before collaborating with someone like Megamon; he's considerably more talented.

As for the song: one of the first things that caught my attention was the song length -- a great full length song is very hard to come by.

A few thoughts that came to me as the song was playing:
- at 0:30, I personally felt like the (electric?) piano should have been slightly filtered to build into that choppy effect that is sitting there now, so that when you reach at the hi-hats at 1:00, you will have had a nice and smooth buildup. It still sounds great as it is -- the chord build-up for the second repeat of the piano is great.
- 1:26 to 2:48: gorgeous. I could listen to this part of the song over and over again.
- 2:49 to 3:20: interesting synth addition; it actually melds with the rest of your song very nicely in my opinion.
- 4:20: ok I'm just going to listen from 1:26 to 5:14 over and over again

Honestly, aside from my one little PERSONAL nit-pick, this song is something I could listen to again and again. It's very smooth, soothing, and just sounds naturally meld together.

It's awesome to see how far you've gone in terms of making music; you're great now!

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Thanks for all the kind words!

I'd be up for a collab sometime. Just know that I'm very erratic with my attitude towards making music; I can only do it when I'm in the right mood.

Yeah, I saw sunless daybreak in the batch and was pleasantly surprised. I'm glad you like my work!

Looking back, it's pretty amazing how far I've come since my first attempts at making music. It took a lot of work, but it's people like you who keep me motivated to make music.

I know what you mean about the piano part, but I personally liked it better the way it is. The filter didn't sound great beyond that point. I'm glad you pointed that out though.

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I especially loved the piano overlay -- I'm a huge sucker for trance synths + drums + piano + possible echoes

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Yeah, that was one of my favorite parts too. I love anything that has piano blended into it.

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Ah, so you actually thought about the filter after all :)

It's great as it is, though. I'd love to chart this whole song for FFR but I'd get the "too long cut song" note.

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^^

I have an instant attraction to piano. It may be because I played piano as a kid idk. lol but everyone seems to look at me funny for liking to play the piano songs on ffr more than I enjoy others. Like the games we played I love them.