Noisecontrollers - Harmony / Be Free EP [Spirit Of Hardstyle]

[th3r3zo]

The first minute of "Harmony" sounds great but the rest...

Be Free sounds like a Bass Modulators production.

Ok release for me, enjoyable tracks but nothing extraordinary. Nice to see how he try to evoque the 2012 - 2015 NC style.

[Pinago]

Love that the climax of Harmony is so long cause this one has so much drive when the kick comes in - every Note in the Melody and the rise of the notes just makes ist good to listen

[Freddy]

Harmony is absolute perfection

More producers should learn how to make the melody interesting without those absurd kick changes every few seconds.

[Amperial]

The first minute of "Harmony" sounds great but the rest...

Be Free sounds like a Bass Modulators production.

Ok release for me, enjoyable tracks but nothing extraordinary. Nice to see how he try to evoque the 2012 - 2015 NC style.

Yeah if I could just have that mid-intro part be the whole track + some layered melody on top progressing nicely till the end = TOTY.
Could've been absolutely insane track, but that buildup just drags on for too long and doesn't progress anywhere.
After that break I already forgot about awesomeness that was the mid-intro part. In the very end it pops up for another short go, but meh... Sounds like 2 different track ideas mushed together (and not very well). I SWEAR that deep dark voice sounds just like what Digital Mindz used early on (Restoration of Harmony etc.). I know it's prolly not the same guy, but man the depth is so accurate it gives me some additional shivers

Be Free is the money track So much fun! Definitely taking me to So High vibes

e: Harmony video just dropped in my feed and what in the absolute fuck is that shite If I can make one request it's drop the AI shit it's ridiculous.

The clash of all this together makes me think that i am on shrooms or lsd going down the rabbithole. Those chipmunk leads give me the rest.

I very much agree that the AI Art looks really weird. Even though i am not against AI if you‘re a born artist who knows how to implement it properly.
- by the way - the artwork of the new disarray track has a similar theme as this one.

I prefer Be Free over Harmony but i am disappointed.

I‘ve read the previous discussion in this forum and i strongly think he would have so much potential going dark rawphoric. Something like „vampire“ but with a more clean sound design a la sub zero project.
- just the technical cleanness, not the style

Also Headhunterz just delivered with Live Forever which is something i‘d like to see if you go for tracks like these.

This is a bit safe played and has no real evolution. The AI addition takes away something out of his „professional“ image on where i see him.

Just came in to my mind for the first quick edit:
Showtek came in with an evolution aswell. The whole album is professional, new, refreshed with their core sound - just pure.

[Jeefrey]

These two tracks are so fucking awesome I don't even know where to start

THAT INTRO IN HARMONY holy crap. I missed proper, funky, crazy mid-intros so much. The melody is an absolute masterpiece. People Are Awesome vibe, but much more than just a clone of it. This guy seriously knows how to compose a masterpiece of a melody. Be Free is fucking amazing too, the intro is heavy as fuck and the melody just has so much energy <3 See? It's possible even without all those kickswitches and pop vocals. This absolutely owns like 95% of stuff that was released this year in my eyes. This guy is an undisputed king of hardstyle. There is so much soul, creativity, heart in these tunes. Good old NC stuff, but its fresh s hell, not just rehashing the old shit. Sounds like they very well could be placed somewhere in All Around album, yet they sound as perfectly good 2024 tunes.

Absolutely true!

Only one thing that probably i'm not used to is Be Free climax kick

Bas

[Cyriax]

Harmony = Heaven is a place on earth? But it's really cool.
Be Free. I don't know, don't like it too much for now. Maybe grows on me though