by

Thomas hyg
(hyg)

Das musik ist scheiss. I felt there was no point listening to the remainder after 4m00s since it was the same pattern over and over anyway. It would be cool in a club, but in a Music Contest you really need more.. ideas. Drumloop toward the middle sounds flanged on my GUS from doubling channels, maybe it was intended, who knows.

Oh dear gods, how many times do you have to repeat the same pattern? Bleh. And it grates on the ears very quickly. The opening bass interacted well with the drums, until you got to the march part of it. But it was still bearable up to the bad sequence of strangely filtered bells -- and the first thing to go was any sense of music. Rather, the module became an incessant series of sounds. Not _quite_ the same thing. Sample kit is mediocre, with really big sequences making up the bulk of the song. It would be hard to quite make a tune with these samples. Tracking was not great, with minimal effects use and minimal use of instrument envelops or the like (and the one usage looked out of place enough to be ripped). Overall? Well... I guess I just don't like this sort of music or something. Reminds me too much of marching band.

Good use of a lot tracks, maybe too many. Having a lot of tracks is good if you use them fully, half used tracks make the song seem simple. There were some really good moments in this song, however some of the samples were somewhat out of tune, it seemed. A little volume manipulation will solve that nicely. Some more use of panning and this track is on it's way.

Cool drum beat at pattern 04 melody too loud at pattern 00 good use of dynamics leading to pattern 15 too many pattern 15's and pattern 10's, add another pattern with a different chord structure to draw the listener into the music excellent drum beats through out the song repetition is the nature of the beast on d&b, but variety could help that. 19-1A is a rough transition

Strangely this tune was considerably entertaining at first, althought the tracking (technical) skill could use a lot of work. However the song quickly (very quickly) loses its appeal and descends into a repetitive horror that nearly made me suicidal. It relied FAR too much on very simple and irritating drum loops, that repeated ad naseum. I'm amazed that using only a few patterns that were all almost literally the same, the artist managed to pull off a song that was over 4 minutes long. The percussion was... well there only WAS percussion, and it was not very well done. However, I really must commend the artist for the necessary guts to put pattern 15 (hex) consecutively NINE times! I really think that any (relatively long) pattern played NINE times consecutively deserves to be classified into the McScooter school of music. And I must of course that the elite pattern 15 was NOT the only pattern played far too many times consecutively. Keeping in mind how many times i had to listen to this song to fairly judge it, I think that if I ever hear this song again, I will begin to have siezures of some sort.