Yuki, Yuki, Yuki. It took me a while to get here and listen to this module, there's a lot out there and the late 90s xmcore scene seemed so big, but now I have my doubts. Otherwise this song is absolutely phenomenal, I have no idea how you guys lived until 2009 without the original xm of this song, thanks Saga!
Technique, Arrangement, Composition (9/10)
For the structure, the intro is strong, and I love the build up into pattern 0/position 8. The actual meat of the song after the intro is REALLY good too, genuinely one of the best pieces of music I've ever come across before. I just love the vibes that it gives off, just spectacular. Not too much a fan of the patterns after position 20, it's Drum and Bass, but the bass isn't good enough. YET SOMEHOW, Radix can save the song, and instead of being some bad aspect that drag downs the song, it just makes it more dynamic and more human. Like I consider the song to be quite similar to a song that my friend Nicole made for the MC2, and for a while I didn't quite like that song, seeing it as "emotionally manipulative" or whatever, like not human enough. And this song despite being what everyone raves about, is not that, it is human, a human wrote this. :)
Development (9/10)
I'm not an expert in this in the slightest, I guess the bass is a bit *word* oh my goodness I can't think of an adjective. The panning is REALLY good, or at least I think. I guess the lack of a good ending might seem bad, but like, given the circumstances of this xm, I feel it's justified. Plus, if you add a blank pattern to the end and fill row 0 with a bunch of ==, it makes a pretty good end!
Creativity (10/10)
The intro's absolutely phenomenal, I LOVE those chords in the beginning, what's it called, arpeggio? My friend Nicole definitely took HEAVY inspiration for the intro of one of her songs, and so did Tuna, but with the chords at the end. Doesn't help that they both entered into the same exact compo, and they both did vastly better than I did! But for the next one, my song will probably be inspired by this one too, not as a cynical ploy to get more votes, no. But because this song is fantastic, that's why!
The voice samples are stellar too! I just want to get up and start dancing to this song so badly and show it to all my friends, but remember, I first heard this song in it's entirety around 55ish hours ago, so I haven't gotten the chance, but I will.
Enjoyment (10/10)
I don't know how, but this is just genuinely one of the best songs ever written, and I heard it for the first time less than 2 and a half days ago. I guess what's left now is to try and convince like Kenadian to use this song in one of her videos as it'd be REALLY funny to get a non-PVZ tracker song in one of her videos. Although I don't know if she'll listen, at least I have an in with MaximumG9 knowing about the demoscene (how?). But like this song is so good that I'm altering my script to the Big Jim video so that I have a valid excuse to play it in there, will probably alter the vocals to say E-NINE-FIVE-TWO-SIX-FOUR instead of whatever they say now because like, come on!
But yeah, if you have not listened to this song yet, PLEASE DO!!!
yuki satellites - radix_-_yuki_satellites.xm
Review Score: 10/10
Overall Impression (10/10)
Yuki, Yuki, Yuki. It took me a while to get here and listen to this module, there's a lot out there and the late 90s xmcore scene seemed so big, but now I have my doubts. Otherwise this song is absolutely phenomenal, I have no idea how you guys lived until 2009 without the original xm of this song, thanks Saga!