Normal 3:16 (icem-nor.xm)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Fri 28th May 1999, rated 6 / 10.

This is either Industrial with an incredibly wimpy melody line, or Trance with incredibly bad drum samples. The song sounds very empty as it stands now, it needs something else to fill it out. For the most part, it loops the same tune line over and over again, but the industrial drum samples eliminate any chance of going Trance, demoting it to Tedious. The first thing to note hear is that the melody and percussion samples do NOT fit together. They're tuned and timed just fine, but the mood set by each is so drastically different that they should have been separated into songs of their own. The stereo and wah-wah work just fine, but they don't do much to inject any innovation into this song. It needs something to fill it out, as well as some difference somewhere - anywhere - in the melody line. Perhaps cutting it to half the time might help, too, and sticking it in as a break in another song. This also bears the growing trend of far too much empty space at the end; over thirty seconds, on this piece. Final analysis: Listen to it to see just why Trance and Industrial don't work well together, then delete it.