Month: June 2018

Broadjam Artist: Fred Kimmel
Song: Cecil’s Wedding (featuring Sali Oguri)

Reviewer: COSTA / Costa Ioannides

Positive Comments: A groovy uptempo electronic dance song with some cool lyrics.

Constructive Comments: The vocals are good overall but could really use some effects like a touch more delay and/or reverb in places. I wouls also build some stereo width in there by panning some intruments (and backing vicals) a few degrees left/right. It has good potential… keep working on it!!

Broadjam Artist: Fred Kimmel
Song: Cecil’s Wedding (featuring Sali Oguri)

Reviewer: COSTA / Costa Ioannides

Positive Comments: A groovy uptempo electronic dance song with some cool lyrics.

Constructive Comments: The vocals are good overall but could really use some effects like a touch more delay and/or reverb in places. I wouls also build some stereo width in there by panning some intruments (and backing vicals) a few degrees left/right. It has good potential… keep working on it!!

Broadjam Artist: Signal 30
Song: Out of Orbit (Instrumental)

Reviewer: COSTA / Costa Ioannides

Positive Comments: This bells-driven track is quite suspensefull and intriguing! Could do well in a soundtrack for gaming!

Constructive Comments: my first thought is that the general volume of the track is quite low, it could use some boosting and/or compression. The track would work much better with a more polished drum track, the drums sound like an old school loop from a small keyboard.

Broadjam Artist: Signal 30
Song: Christmas , The 25th (Country Version)

Reviewer: amy abernathy

Positive Comments: Every body loves Christmas and is looking forward to that time of year. This was Christmas in July. I always like the vibe of Christmas songs, it was very cheery. The background vocals were sweet.

Constructive Comments: I could not hear the lead vocals on this recording. the background sounding so much louder, so it needed a balance. The child singer was very goo and it added to the song. i would work on clarity of vocals for the main singer and make it a little louder. i love that you wrote a christmas song.

Broadjam Artist: Jeff Roberts
Song: Visitation

Reviewer: COSTA / Costa Ioannides

Positive Comments: Very original composition and mix, i genuinly found myself grooving to this. The track starts off very mysteriously but then establishes a genuinely cool groove. A really cool blend of electronica and vinyl old school funk.

Constructive Comments: the mix and levels need attention, theres a distorted guitar or similar at around 2:40 that is way to high in the mix. Watch that the reverbs and delays dont muddy the soundscape too much and create distortion to the great groove you got going on in there.

Broadjam Artist: RICARDO ALONSO
Song: La Fiesta

Reviewer: COSTA / Costa Ioannides

Positive Comments: the track gets increasingly more interesting as it progresses. The enery of the track is high and has the salsa groove well established. if the intention was for it to be a show-type track then it succeeds very well

Constructive Comments: it needs a main melody with vocals/lyrics to be complete

Broadjam Artist: RICARDO ALONSO
Song: La Fiesta

Reviewer: COSTA / Costa Ioannides

Positive Comments: the track gets increasingly more interesting as it progresses. The enery of the track is high and has the salsa groove well established. if the intention was for it to be a show-type track then it succeeds very well

Constructive Comments: it needs a main melody with vocals/lyrics to be complete

Broadjam Artist: Just Jordan
Song: The Remedy

Reviewer: Jeff Roberts

Positive Comments: Dirty South—lol I think this was over with Two Live Crew but maybe the Atlanta / Migos scene is considered Dirty South… You’re hitting one person pretty hard here I hope they deserve the diss. There’s some very strong & effective rhyming and strapping going on!

Constructive Comments: I don’t think this approach and sound is current anymore, but I’m not totally up on the genre. The backing instrumental tracks could be more interesting with additional parts and layers, and a bass/drum thing that grooves more.

Broadjam Artist: Just Jordan
Song: The Remedy

Reviewer: Jeff Roberts

Positive Comments: Dirty South—lol I think this was over with Two Live Crew but maybe the Atlanta / Migos scene is considered Dirty South… You’re hitting one person pretty hard here I hope they deserve the diss. There’s some very strong & effective rhyming and strapping going on!

Constructive Comments: I don’t think this approach and sound is current anymore, but I’m not totally up on the genre. The backing instrumental tracks could be more interesting with additional parts and layers, and a bass/drum thing that grooves more.

Broadjam Artist: Earkandi
Song: Crazy

Reviewer: Jeff Roberts

Positive Comments: Catchy! Good vocal sound and the phrasing is hypnotic. You have a bit of the Adelle warmth and grit in some of the phrases. There’s potential for a very strong Pop tune here.

Constructive Comments: I don’t think the tempo change in the intro does anything for the song. I think you need more infill in the arrangement–probably keys/synth parts that give a 16th or 8th note bed for the rest of the parts to work against. The message of the lyrics doesn’t quite hit–maybe more actual story that informs what’s going on? I think this needs to be more R&B and less of a Post Punk rock vibe.