1. Musical taste is not abullet-proof science. I mean no disrespect by stating it didn’t do it for me.

2. I share your opinions on pre-made loops: It dont make you a composer cause you can drag and drop pre-recorded music. Still, self-recorded music can be boring and, in the hand of a gifted composer, amazing stuff can be created by tinkering around with loops from loopmasters.com and such sites.

3. 20 years ago some band named ENIGMA scored a huge hit playing drums over gregorian chants. I admire how they got on top of the charts and made money from it. They’re no more starving musician and I encourage that any day of the week and this is what I wish to Steevie Deez and his music.
Having said that, Enigma’s music always sounded ridiculous to me even though it went number 1 in 41 countries. It was a gimmick and gimmicks, no matter how successful they are, should be seen for what they are, sometimes easy ways to a payday, but still gimmicks at the end of the day ( in a Art for Art kinda way).

4. I acknowledge Steevie Deez’s song is the most contrasting/easily recognizable song from the whole bunch on this particular competition. And as I was listening to it the first time around, I knew it would be scoring points with listeners. But for my own taste, that particular piece is still middle of the road. To me, Steevie’s maturity is still to come. I maintain that a better integration of influences is necessary. But somewhere down the road I strongly suspect originality might strongly emerge within this kid’s music. He knows for sure how to makes a musical impression.

I invite Steevie Deez to try it for fun, to hear with the results might be: Composing using that techno/jazz fusion, the tenth song from now, I’m incline to believe, might have that quality I”m talking about. As I a music lover would very much enjoy listening to it;
stephenmurphy@hotmail.fr