horisont (xr-hsont.xm)

Posted by qb45 on Sun 1st Sep 2024, rated 8 / 10.

A nice melo etherial track with prominate classical guitar and rythmic suffling backplain that sounds almost like words but not quit. Very calming, sort of reminds me of Echo the Dolphin sound track or Donky Kong Country 2 water world.

Posted by LooPeR231 on Mon 4th Mar 2024, rated 10 / 10.

There is something about this track, that is so special, I can't even explain.

Posted by Saga Musix on Sat 17th Feb 2007, rated 10 / 10.

This is xerxes' greatest tune for sure - there are so many nice ideas in this one. You should really have a listen.

Posted by Rikimbo on Sat 17th Feb 2007, rated 10 / 10.

I love everything about Horisont. This is my favourite mod of all time. I'm still curious to hear the 'inspiration from' tunes listed in the sample text.

Posted by Eagle on Sun 9th Jul 2006, rated 10 / 10.

Classification: Ambient Musical Rating: Excellent Ahh, this is one absolutelly wonderful piece of ambient. It just took me a minutes of listening to feel absolutelly at peace with the music in my ear. No music has ever made me feel this homestead and harmonic with myself before. My heart simply melted to the strings. It was love on the first sight. The 12 minutes of this song passed and I was left there smiling of cheer happiness and didn't let any second pass before I turned the module on play and infinite repeat. The song consist mainly of fading strings, a peaceful melody and innovative percussions. The earlier parts have this really unique percussion noise which sounds like an amplified finger gliding on a guitar string combined with flanger. Absolutelly wonderful! The melody makes your fantasy roll with colors. I could think of thousands things which fitted with the song. Mostly about travelling the world, alone and happy. But even thoughts about cuddling with your loved one in the sunset and other happy imaginations passed by. I loved it! Technical Rating: Professional Running the module in speed 3 and tempo 148, I looked at the techniques being in use. I also putted on headphones to hear the panning effects (the speakers of my laptop are too centered in the front for panning effects to be noteable), and was pretty amased by the techniques. The song is panned very nicelly and the strings uses chords two chords of two octaves to give that highly realistic audio. The guitar in the middle of the song is extremly well composed. The flute in the middle of the song, was apparently a chip sample just like instrument 1! I had no idea when I listened to it earlier. The chip was so well composed it sounded just like a flute sample from a synth. The "xylophone" was an echoing beep erasion with 3 morphed variations. It all was amasing to me to see. It reminded me of Purple Motion's techniques. All samples are so well manipulated, they often sound like something completelly else, pannings are very well done and the massive use of effects and envelopes is clearly impressive. The most well composed piece of music I've ever seen, and it's 12 minutes long, too! Some samples were large, especially sample 3. That's the only negative I can think of. Converting sample 3 to 8-bit would be a good idea. I didn't notice any large quality decreasion after convertion, so try that. It decreased the file size with 477KB. //Eagle