by

Shannon Overfiend
(Overfiend)

Cheeeeeesy doskpop is back. With Amiga feeling, Amiga samples (haven't heard ST-00:shamus in a while) and as a nice PC twist a sounds-like- FC-Siner. But unfortunately not Amiga quality standards... The beats sound like a drummer on craq: too broken too drive. The melodies are ok, and the piano supports them well, but the bass is too loud. No panning here, everything is straight in the middle position. It's a .S3M saved as .IT btw., you can try and save it as .S3M and IT won't complain.

This song shows that the composer should really learn more about how to handle melodies and especially harmonies. The chord change between a major and minor chord in the same key is something which should be handled with EXTREME care and doesn't sound good at all in most cases - and so in this one. Also, the melody definitely lacks some structure as it's only jumping up and down without any really remarkable motives. The sounds are (apart from that overused lead sound) ok, but these partly dissonant harmonics and some single notes in the melody make this tune one of these i won't really enjoy listening to.

This tune reminded me of those old arcade games like Double Dragon for some reason. The samples were well chosen and suited the style of the music. There was enough variation in the music to keep me interested but I felt that it lacked an element of professionalisim. I don't know how to explain that but it sounded a bit amateur. But, if anyone wants to release DD4, this would be the tune to use for in game music!

Begin is pretty good(0-4 orders), but other....I can't find a idea in here. And one more I think sometimes some instruments are very loud, but other are very silent.

Admittetly this song is PURE cheese, but it is pretty well tracked, and certainly more enjoyable than a lot of the other tunes. This song might have fit in better as an intermediate song considering the skilful tracking and good tune. However, what kept this song from being better, was the unoriginal, cheesy tune that everyone has heard a million times before. All and all, this song works out to being mediochre: enjoyable, yet somehow bland. I think if the composer were to use his/her tracking skills to write an ORIGINAL tune, the world would be a better place.