This one is hard to criticize, telling just from the name. It's goal is different. Although this was entered under 'crystal castles' so I can constructively criticize it in that way.
The jam's theme was 'crystal castles'. Listening to this song. Royalty, luxury, medieval fantasy, orchestral, or castle-y-ness doesn't ever come to mind. Kind of the opposite as much of the instruments sound out-right electronic or alien.
Okay, well what about crystal-y-ness? Well the entire song has this sort of crysral-bongo sound? Is one instrument enough to give like a sparkling, echo-y, reverby, vaguely cold vibe though?
Of course the goal of this track (I assume) is to be groovy, ambient and weird, 4:10 in the long version is my favorite part because of the rhythm. I actually listen to stuff like microtonal music every now and then. I also like the high-pitched synthetic at 1:40 in the long version.
Maybe if you sampled crystal-type sounds, and orchestral instruments and stuck more with those, I could rate this song higher on coherence to theme.
I saw the video of you fiddling around with whatever lovecraftian digital keyboard you had while you were making this. I have no idea how you would music like this. Completely Unrelated but it was really cool to see.
One more very minor criticism here, hardly related to the song actually. The file name is just Crystal's castle. If the waves name were changed it would be easier to sort through all the songs in files.
Never expected microtonal music to get in here but damn I'm here for it. Thank you for the surprise. Probably the most stand-out song here. 👍