I have only one complaint with this mod: it ends rather abruptly - I guess I'd say it is too short. But in every other way it's an excellent example of a MOD. Good melody, great techno sound, very creative, and tiny too!

Posted by lymang on Fri 3rd Aug 2012, rated 9 / 10.

9/10 for the melody and for the size

Posted by Zenon on Fri 1st Oct 2010, rated 9 / 10.

Oh man, where do I begin? This song is awesome.
I was amazed by how much great sound was put into 20kb, since modules of similar quality tend to be 200kb .
PS:
This was the song that inspired me to learn how to use a tracker.

Posted by null1024 on Sun 2nd Dec 2007, rated 10 / 10.

Maybe the most known MOD of all times.
Perfect example of making a mod using only what a simple tracker can offer.
I personally have listen to this mod hours and hours
((good companion for reading or programming, working or whatever:)))
My first knowledge of tracker-composing tricks came from this song. first choise in mod list when used to play Eitris(if anybody understands what i mean :)) I ll give 10 to this mithic song :))

Posted by 0_4t0m05 on Sat 1st Dec 2007, rated 10 / 10.

Wow! every time I listen to this song I get a smile cus it's so fast and has so much techno awesomeness. K. Koch did some crazy tracking to make this one, and it's so cool I learnt to play it on guitar!

Posted by i7 on Wed 10th Oct 2007, rated 9 / 10.

this one's very old but very cool =) the melodies maybe are not the best but on the technical side, it's breakthrough. the chipsounds sound very advanced due to layering... my respect...

Posted by nula on Mon 8th Oct 2007, rated 7 / 10.

A classic module. It's so tiny but has such a big sound! Totally overwhelming if you ask me. Plus, the techno sounds really make me going nuts :D
No wonder why it was included in many Trackers as an example song! It's technically very advanced and also very nice to listen to!

Posted by Saga Musix on Sun 7th Oct 2007, rated 10 / 10.

I never would have expected the filesize to bee this low for this song. I thought is was somewhere around 200 kb when I first heard it, but only 20 kb? Wow! The song is a bit short and boring, so no 10, but nice song.

Posted by Pip Malt on Wed 18th Jul 2007, rated 8 / 10.

First of all, I'm going to start this review by saying how apalled I was at the prior review of this song, which was brief, inaccurate, and lowballed. Now for the review... Musically, this song has the distinction of having a superlative melody, for being ultrafast techno (circa 1995). It rocks from the get-go, and is a very repeatable listen despite the fact it is a brief and repetetive song, due to how the simplistic samples are manipulated throughout the song to give them a rich and varying tenor. Aryx has the honor of being the ModPlug player pack-in song for good reason - it's good, it's small, and it is a tutorial in itself if you download a tracker and give it a once-over. This song is one of the many examples of Karsten's tracking expertise (Chronologie, Leaving All Behind, and The Hidden Empire are all case-in-points), and it is a neat little toon that has lot's of superlative tracking tricks that caught me off guard. What Karsten does is use a tremolo effect - duplicating the same note and sample in another sound channel to richen the sound, and he also takes two different samples which are essentially the same sample with a slight variation in pitch and overlays them in alternating stereo channels, which richens the sound even further - accomplishing effects few mod composers have ever dreamed of.

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Thu 26th Sep 2002, rated 10 / 10.