by

Mark Arcturus
(Arcturus)

Interesting mixage of some different styles, I found some rock-like, jungle and acid pieces in Your song. Let me tell the truth... they don't fit together so much... The eletric guitar samples are pretty old and overused, and what's worse, they are pretty outta tune at many places. That jungle-like drumloop You play around the whole tune over and over is annoying after a very short time. That's about the first half of the song. The second one is a bit better, or better told - I like it more than the first one. Seems that this style is closer to You and You probably know it, unfortunately You realized this fact too late, the half of the song's gone... I hope You will learn from this and next time You will try something, which better fits Your musical view and technical skill. Now this is a mediocre tune.

The acoustic guitar at the beginning is rather plain and never sounds that guitar-ish in the envelope, and there are some off notes especially in order 5. Good acoustic interlude in orders 12 and 13... orders 22 and 23 sounded _really_ out of place in this song. Good solid panning. The last four notes of the acoustic guitar were just _wrong_. You could have better finished it off by incorporating some strings into it. Nice drum loop, but I think it could have been done manually just as well. Some of the distorted guitar samples are taken way out of their range. I'm not too taken by the composition in this song. Lots of little good phrases peeking out all over the place and maybe staying long enough for you to get the quickest glimpse of the form underneath the waves, but a little bit more time in front of the tracker might have been called for.

The introduction and main theme’s similarity to the M.A.S.H. theme song irks me throughout. Orders 9-18 have the makings of an above average guitar/rock mod. Then we go back to the irksome M.A.S.H. like theme again. The bloopy bleepy stuff in the last third of the song is out of place and repetitive. The transition back to the theme and then the ending is done well but not great.

Not a big fan of tracked guitar songs (the guitars never sound right, especially with bending), but not a bad song overall. The distorted guitar sample is definitely tired though. The acoustic part at orders 12 and 13 was really cool, though. Nice change. With some better samples, the buildup interlude at orders 14-17 could have been pretty cool, but it ended up sounding pretty cheesy. The synth stuff at order 26 is nice, but doesn't seem to fit the rest of the song very well. Overall, it has some potential, but the samples detracted from the overall effect a lot.

I found uneffective the rock-guitar in order #6 to #8. You must be using it to reinforce something, but I have no clue what. It cannot be the fragile classical guitar. The chords doesn't sounds right on my AMD Interwave. Also, the drum sequence need variations. It's well tracked, and it's complex enough to keep interest in it. But it needs to evolve. To follow the song, wherever it is going. Overall the song is interesting even it is so simple.

This track could have been 2 great different tracks. melodic guitar tune hard distortion just doesn't fit, specially not HERE. the rhythm is everything against the melodic guitar and perfectly fits the distortion. Sounds like an experiment more then a mature tune.