Patrick Shirkey wrote: Hi Patrick I don't know why, but I listened to your piece. Assuming it is representative to some degree of those genres and electronic music in general, it only confirmed what I already know, that I don't like these genres and can find nothing to appreciate in them. The piece was too repetitive and simplistic to hold my attention and interest. I also found what I perceived to be the intended message of the words, to be a cliched gross oversimplification that has become very tiresome and grating in the last few years, but that subject is way, way OT for this list. But that's not really important as the focus doesn't seem to be on the vocals anyway. The mix sounded okay to me, but as already mentioned, I'm really not at all qualified to offer any meaningful comment on it as it is far removed from what I usually listen to. However, it was a little more accessible than previous work of yours that I've heard. It is rather quiet, as you suggest, with very little energy and punch. I suppose this is the problem -- Linux is fairly niche in music-making circles and then genres of music can be pretty small niches as well, so the audience is even smaller still. I'm a regular on the KVR Audio forums (www.kvraudio.com) and whilst there's all sorts of music people put up there, there does seem to be a very strong following for all sorts of electronic music. Perhaps you'd find more of an audience and constructive criticism there (for the music at least, sadly certainly much less so for the Linux aspects). Thanks for sharing and sorry for not being able to offer any constructive criticism. And an off-topic aside: keep up the good work with your annual round-up of Linux-made music. I did release something earlier in the year but it was only a very short bit of a work-in-progress so isn't really worth bothering about. Cheers Q