Hi Sandis,
Wow, again thanks for the thorough review. I'll look and listen at your
recommendations from remixcommons.
Sandis Neilands wrote:
We shouldn't base or decisions upon popularity of the music.If we do
so we could end up shipping Beethoven-only CD. I mean I would rather
be surprised by a cool tune I have never heard before than listen "Ode
to joy" or "Moonlight sonata" yet another time.
Yes I agree, though I think if we pick something less known it should be
fairly melodic so that it will only require one or two listens to like it.
I think it sounds too midi'sh and I'm afraid it would sound even more
midi'sh on cheap headphones/laptop speakers.
After hearing more stuff I agree with that. I'm already more impressed
with this piece: http://www.kahvi.org/v04.php It has a more interesting
progression and better quality samples IMO. Less tinny and all round
artistically better IMO. Unfortunately the license is unclear. I want to
check out more stuff by the artist at:
http://www.lackluster.org/index2.php and then email him to see if we can
arrange something. (the clip above is a video so the file is quite
large, but presumably the audio file is available somewhere.)
A lot of music over there. What are the deadlines for you? I'm asking
because it will take time to get even a glimpse of whats inside.
Yes, there is a lot. The audio quality seems good, though the musical
quality is often almost-good, I'm afraid. We could well find some pearls
there though.
On the deadlines: I would like to find something acceptable by the end
of this month so we don't have to stress too much about it. However, a
better piece can always come in and replace it later on. In that sense
we can get quite close to the release date which is mid-April. Closer to
the deadline disc space constraints will also become firmer. We may need
to have a few options of varying size.
- Henrik
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