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[NGMC 2025 2'rnd]

Well, I hear the race and tropical theme, in the same time in the intro, but there is a bit of a problem for me in the theming, and this is that for most of the music, it is the racing theme that is promoted, but excepted the start and the drop from the end part, I dont much feel the tropical theming into the song. Nice racing song still.

Overall rating : Maybe something like 8.5/10 into my personal opinion of the song.
Theming rating for Tropical theme : 5/10, in some parts it is well integrated but in other parts I dont feel it at all.
Theming rating for Race theme : 9/10, present through the whole song, though the actual music is using the same way to integrate it during the whole song.

Overall, pretty nice song.

Voytek-Music responds:

Thanks!

[Distorted Sands {NGMC 2025}]

Well, nice song... Even though I dont really imagine something tropical even with the djumbe sound. (Djumbe... I am not sure on how I writed this word.)
The actual racing seems here...
For the song itself, I agree on the fact that the transition seems brutal. But I personally like it.

Theming :
Tropical : 2/10 (I dont see the tropical aspect excepted in djumbes)
Racing : 7/10

General : 7.5/10. The transition is still feeling strange. But good music. And sorry, I know everyone is criticizing the transition... But do not block on this, the rest of the song is still pretty good ^^

[Tour pela Praia do Espelho]

Well, not everyone will agree with me, but I dont feel it as 'race'. I feel like I already heard a part of the melody somewhere even if I dont know where. The overall music is good, and I can hear the tropical part in it.

Overall rating : 7/10
Tropical theming : 6/10, not as present as in other ngmc tracks for r2.
Racing theming : 4/10, I dont feel it but some has felt it, so I dont know.

Albe responds:

This comment is entirely subject to MY opinions on the matter, not Everratic's, so take it out with me in any case. "Not everyone will agree with me" i have good news for you, literally everyone else agrees. it's literally the 4th comment that mentions it. I know all of you expected some high-energy high-adrenaline supersonic-lightspeed dubstep or trance music to accompany the vibes race usually have because typically race = fast, but if you look at mario kart wii for example you'll find many of the songs there are just like this, chill, but on a faster tempo. Or maybe I just enjoy shattering everyone else's expectations with ludonarrative dissonance. Anyways, I'll make sure to include more serum 2 dubstep factory presets next time I make a tropical track so I can bump up the "tropical" theming a little bit further. Thanks for your feedback!

[The Cumbia Course]

Well, for a track itself, it deserves more than these 3 little stars... But knowing the actual theming behind it, I don't understand. It does absolutely not sound like a tropical or race theme to me even though the music is good.

Theming : Tropical theme : 2.5/10
Racing theme : 2/10
General : 8/10

DaxCamdaxian responds:

It's cool to see the difference between cultures through music, in my country, cumbia, which is the genre of our song, is deeply rooted in tropical music, there's even a subgenre called tropical cumbia

I appreciate that even though you don't feel the theme is applied to the song, you enjoyed it. Thank you for listening to it! :)

[Shoreline (ft. Solacitude)]

The race feeling is very present here. I feel it . The tropical is here too, even when the actual tropical theme is not as present as in some other entries in my opinion of what is a tropical music.

Overall : Great job. 8/10.
Tropical theme : Present. 7/10.
Race theme : 10/10.

[Apeleration]

Thought the actual way it turns into derision the theming were funny xD
I like behind it the racing theme is here, into the rythm tho

Overall rating : 9/10, pretty fun... But since it is less than 2 minutes long, my usual penalty is to set a -0.5, so I set 8.5/10 on it.
Theming rate for Tropical theming : 8/10, bc the way it was integrated is pretty funny
Theming rate for Race theming : 8/10, well made into this

[Josip Broz Tito Snaking at Guam]

Feels tropical to me. As for the R1, the music seems like an OST for a racing videogame made for kids. Nicely made, I like it x)

Mixing : 9/10
Theming for Tropical Theme : 10/10. I can really feel it into the song. Especially after the "lap 2" starts, it feels like mariokart theme for it's tropical races.
Racing theme : 10/10. Reminds me of mariokart, which is obviously a race game.

[Vanuatu [NGMC 2025]]

I agree for the waterflame vibes, sounds a bit like Race Around the World imo, so the race theme is here to me. The variations gave it a tropical aspect, added to an unusual pirate theming that I were not expecting to see here. I am not in position to criticize this music xD

Theming :
Tropical : 10/10. I can't say much more. Vanuatu gives it's own tropical vibe which I like.
Racing : 8/10. I can associate it to Race Around the World as I said earlier, and the waterflame music is considerated as a race music, but I never really had a race vibe with it. Though, your song, here, have it's own elements, and it's not a simple race around the world copy, so I'd tell it's more racy than race around the world in my opinion.

General rating : 10/10. Great song.

[[NGMC 2025] X3ll3n - Beach Race (w/ Snikio)]

Itself, I liked the actual music.
The race theme was here, and I could feel the tropical theme too.
Pretty short music too, which I found pretty sad.

For the music itself :Beach Race has some interesting aspects, but the music is too short to really enjoy them. I think it could have been more exploited by making the music a little longer. Basically a 8/10, but since it's not even 2 minutes long, I'd set 7.5/10.
For the theming : The tropical aspect is here for the first time in the music I listened to from this round so far, i'd give the tropical theme like 8/10 and the racing theme 10/10 (I thought myself "this could be good for a race in a videogame")

[Chocnoon x ArikXu - Summer Breeze (DCLXXI)]

Well, I'm not as @ZuwerWS , I can't understand a single word of what's being said here ^^'

Not my style of music still, I dont listen much trance music.
I feel the race theme here, nice beat (actually not meaning to be crual but it's one of the only things I like in the music too :/)

Listening to my personal opinion for the music, it'd not be a good vote. But being completely objective, the mixing of the song seems good to me. I'd tell it's like... Idk, minimum of 6/10.

Summer Breeze have this vibe for a race, with a music getting faster and slower smoothly, or it feels so. So for me, it's like a 8/10 for racing theme.
But once again as I said in other places, guess the fact I didn't understand the lyrics didn't help, but where is the tropical aspect ? I dont hear it in any part of the music personally. So for the tropical theming, I'd give it either a 0 or a 2 for the actual "party" aspect that could remain of summer that itself could remain of beach as said in the title that itself COULD remain of a tropical island...... Goes too far for me to go that deep to find tropical aspect. Sorry if this seems crual to you, not the goal of the review.