Acrid Reality (d-b-acre.it)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Wed 31st Aug 2005, rated 8 / 10.

This track has to be one of the most interesting tracks I've ever heard. It starts off with... I can't even describe it it's nowhere near what I'm used to hearing as a song opener. Then it jumps into a lead bass rhythm and pretty much takes off, getting only better from there. There's plenty of variety all-around, the more times I listened to it the better it got. Just the sheer complexity of this song gives it a Pro rating. Now for the downsides: At about 1:36 into the track there's a kind of slap-snare used to spice up a huge bass drum, neither of which seemed to fit well. It broke the attention away from the lead notes in the song, and it was just a little too much over the top. And the track itself ended with pretty much the same effect as when the song began, which was fine, but before that there was no hint that the song was about to close, which left me staring at the monitor. Just minor glitches, nothing to take away from a fantastic track. There was so many effects used to create variety during transitions that just made the tune awesome, the samples were superb save for a few percussions. Almost everything was 8-bit, yet the heavy panning slides, portamento changes, volume changes and even position jumps are really what gave the song its strength, and their useage almost never let up through the song until the end.