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Download: Title: Trilogy Filename: VTRILO.XM	Posted Sun 4th Nov 2007 Rated 8 / 10
Very good jazz track. Dunno why it's been classified as techno.

Download: Title: LaKers Team ReVenge Filename: lakers_team_revenge.mod	Posted Sun 4th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
A bit of a silly, this one. But reasonably well done. 3-4.

Download: Title: Kick Ass 1st Filename: kick_ass_first.xm	Posted Sun 4th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
This is synth rock. I don't think the word 'respect' is ever likely to pass the lips of a real rocker. Vocal samples poor, rock background better, but the rap-style influences don't fit well with the rest of the track. A bit of an oddball. And why boast that the track was done in under half an hour? That's not generally a good thing ...

Download: Title: dancing arabian girl Filename: dancing_arabian_girl.xm	Posted Sun 4th Nov 2007 Rated 6 / 10
Almost chipstyle. The lilting opening motif - about the first 4 seconds of the track - is a nigh-perfect Arabian intro. Suspect it's the start of a traditional tune from somewhere. The rest is still good, and carries the spirit of Arabia that zalza intended, but pales in comparison. This is a modern Arabian girl, dancing to disco :-)

Download: Title: Florida Filename: florida.mod	Posted Sun 4th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
Sigh This is a textbook example of what often goes wrong with tracker tunes. Pick a a few seconds of music from anywhere in the song, and it sounds fine. Samples, composition and technical skill are all of ... acceptable quality. Listen to the whole lot and its just a chain of stuff strung together. No discernible beginning, middle or end. Sometimes it's quieter, sometime louder, higher-pitched or lower, faster or slower. But there is no melody, and no sense that the composer has put any planning into it at all. As long as each sequence joins smoothly to the previous and the next, that was good enough. Music for ADD sufferers. 2-3

Download: Title: Dead lock Filename: DEADLOCK.XM	Posted Sat 3rd Nov 2007 Rated 9 / 10
Y es, how to make FastTracker jump through hoops, by Elwood. Excellent technically, and a tune, something many other composers seem to overlook. On the other hand, if I grade it 10, how do I rate his later stuff? So, 8-9 then.

Download: Title: anarchy menu 1 Filename: 4mat-menu1.mod	Posted Sat 3rd Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
2.5 minutes from 14k? Impressive. Sounds surprisingly good, considering. But still mostly a clever noise rather than music I'll ever want to listen to again.

Download: Title: vangelis-remix-02 Filename: vangelis.mod	Posted Sat 3rd Nov 2007 Rated 5 / 10
Not Vangelis, more like Jean-Michel Jarre/Bill Bailey. 4-5.

Download: Title: Eternity (Remix) Filename: eternity_remix.s3m	Posted Sat 3rd Nov 2007 Rated 6 / 10
Starts harp-style, then develops into a sort of spacey (e.g. sci-fi) track. Not sure about 'Eternity'. 'Alien River' or something might have been a more fitting name. Classified as Fantasy because there isn't a sci-fi category. 6-7

Download: Title: wendigo 8 Filename: j2_wend8.it	Posted Sat 3rd Nov 2007 Rated 6 / 10
An above-average ballad. Uses some sort of ululating sample in the middle and at the end for the Wendigo voices, but they're not anywhere near weird enough in my view. Make them a bit more electronic and they'd make fine samples for War of the Worlds-style Martians, however.

Download: Title: . rusty angels Filename: rusty_angels.xm	Posted Sat 3rd Nov 2007 Rated 5 / 10
This is one of the better ones in my latest download batch. For one thing the title relates to the track. :-) Medium/slow melancholy piece, quite nicely done. Samples (all generated by the artist) sound fine to me.

Download: Title: Piece of Mind theme Filename: piece_of_mind_theme.mod	Posted Sat 3rd Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Seems to be a ripped demo soundtrack, and it's a 14 minute mixed bag. It's OK, I guess. Decent range of effects, variety of song styles with a similar (relatively mellow) theme. Quite good for a 4-track piece. But it's less effective without the demo lightshow to go with it.

Download: Title: flum.mod Filename: flum.mod	Posted Sat 3rd Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
Small modstyler/chip piece. Much better than I expected given the small filesize. But really, given a choice between listening to a tune done in 7 minutes, and a good tune that took some actual effort on the part of a 'composer', I'd prefer the latter thank you.

Download: Title: DD21.for_KAMIKAZE Filename: dd21_for_kamikaze.mod	Posted Sat 3rd Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
Rather bouncy back rhythm with a very bog-standard tracker tune on the top. A good variety of effects used - dd seems to know how to get his tracker to do that sort of stuff, but still not a very good tune. Lots of tracker cliches in this one. 2-3.

Download: Title: hours_of_humanity.xm Filename: hours_of_humanity.xm	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 8 / 10
Long ambient track with a slowly-building Indian atmosphere to it. Like drifting over Bombay in a hot-air balloon, starting in empty countryside and passing over the temples and city centre at around 6min, before drifting up into the sky again. Starts out very slow-paced. Liked the vocal samples at around 3m30 and 8m. Technically good, although the voice samples could perhaps have a bit more definition. And I don't believe it ever uses all 32 channels at once somehow.

Download: Title: * kombat-syndrome * Filename: kombat-syndrome.mod	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
OK cover of the Mortal Kombat theme. It's a bit disco, really. 3 or 4.

Download: Title: After Hours Filename: hours.xm	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 7 / 10
Just goes to show how not liking a genre can hurt the scores you give it. It's a very, very good track technically, but I don't feel any need to rave about it. For me, it just scrapes a 7.

Download: Title: Bit to Soul Intro Filename: bit_to_soul_intro.xm	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
Blippy C64-style track. Overuses effects rather. 3

Download: Title: Rush Filename: vsn-rush.xm	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 5 / 10
Not the 'Rush' I thought it was going to be, but impressive for 3.5 hours' work.

Download: Title: Black Absorber Filename: black_absorber.mod	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 8 / 10
Simple, fast-paced techno track that gets more ambitious as it gets going. Good musical variety. This is how to do it! Not quite Prodigy, but not half bad, especially considering it's only a 4-track module.

Download: Title: One Sunday Morning Filename: one_sunday_morning.mod	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 5 / 10
One sample?? Doing this with one sample is very technically impressive. It's a happy, rather chippy tune. Clever. I'd like to hear it redone with that rather brutal restriction removed - there's a sweet little song trapped in here.

Download: Title: Helpless AuToMaTOn Filename: helpless_automaton.s3m	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 6 / 10
Voice samples are a bit too compressed - it's hard to make out all the lyrics. But it's an unusual song in even having lyrics in the first place. 8 or 9 for technical skill, much lower for artistic merit. A very good track to study if you want to pick up some tracking tips, less good for actually listening to. For listening alone, I'd rate it 3 or 4.

Download: Title: black lamp Filename: black_lamp.mod	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 6 / 10
This sounds like a chip version of a sad old traditional tune - one that I can't quite recognise or place. Gets a bit modern at around the 1m-1m20 mark, then switches back to traditional again. (Ah, much better.) Rather an unusual piece.

Download: Title: tangent 6.853 Filename: tangent_6_853.mod	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
Starts off sounding like techno jungle drums. Then gradually adds extra tricks, without actually getting anywhere, then fades out. Nothing wrong with it technically, but it's disappointing. It sounds like a 4-minute introduction - you start to wonder when the main tune is going to come in. And it never does.

Download: Title: Under Filename: under.xm	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 6 / 10
Good medium-speed ambient/synth track. Technically good, mellow, maybe a little bland. Did like the occasional drum hits throughout the piece; they helped add a bit of texture. Otherwise it would have been a 4.

Download: Title: bang on the line Filename: bang_on_the_line.xm	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 7 / 10
Pleasant ambient track, nicely done. Good composition and musical variety. Another one to chill to.

Download: Title: Man Who Sold the Wld Filename: manwho.xm	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Sounds like the music track from a slightly wacky mid-80s game. Dunno about David Bowie, maybe more a mix of Austin Powers and Duran Duran. While listening, I started to think it was getting a bit repetitive, though, but then the music stopped and started again in a different pattern. Overall, a bit cheesy, but amusing.

Download: Title: on the run Filename: tu_otrun.xm	Posted Thu 1st Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Unexceptional chip track. That said, I've certainly heard worse. This one does at least make some attempt at a bit of musical creativity. Scrapes a 4.

Download: Title: dCS-fLop.endtune Filename: flop_endtune.mod	Posted Wed 31st Oct 2007 Rated 2 / 10
15-second loop, presumably ripped from some game or other.

Download: Title: Stand - Like a Man Filename: stand_-_like_a_man.mod	Posted Wed 31st Oct 2007 Rated 3 / 10
It's a rather cookie-cutter 4-track trance mod, but with a couple of slightly-more creative flourishes to it.

Download: Title: A Caffeine Pill Christmas Filename: hyo-compo46.it	Posted Wed 31st Oct 2007 Rated 6 / 10
Way better than I could write in a month. Not sure a one hour competition is a way to get the best work out of people though. It's technically fine, but an hour gives no room for any musical creativity, and that shows.

Download: Title: presentacion Filename: presentacion.mod	Posted Wed 31st Oct 2007 Rated 3 / 10
Short (1 minute) track presumably taken from a game intro. Seems to have been set up to segue into some other tune. Hence sounds unfinished.

Download: Title: feels_like_a_breeze Filename: feels_like_a_breeze.mod	Posted Wed 31st Oct 2007 Rated 6 / 10
Passable module. One of the better 4-track mods. Decent composition and samples, good technique. Nothing at all wrong with it as far as I can tell, but unfortunately nothing very notable about it either.

Download: Title: Beyond Imagination Filename: beyondimagination.it	Posted Tue 30th Oct 2007 Rated 2 / 10
Beyond imagination is a sort of weird pulsating track with a very slow drum in the background. This track is trying to be spooky or ethereal, but the pacing and balance are wrong. It just sounds like an experimental new age piece, and not a very good one. Score 2-3.

Download: Title: ay chiquilla Filename: ay_chiquilla.mod	Posted Tue 30th Oct 2007 Rated 3 / 10
The most-used sample on this piece sounds to me like a cross between a piano and a banjo. It's 'interesting' but doesn't bear repeated listening. Not very musically creative, poor balance on the samples; they almost all seem to be being played at 100%. Fixing that alone would improve the track markedly. Does have a slight ethnic Mexican tinge to it, which is something I think the maker was trying for. Overall, listenable, but only once or twice.

Download: Title: mind control- Filename: mind_control-.mod	Posted Tue 30th Oct 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Slightly cartoony trance track, despite the name. I think the mind control involved is branding this tune across the subject's brains after 2-300 repetitions. That might work . . . Personally, I like this unusual track more than the score I've given it indicates. But on overall merit, I think 4 or 5 is a fair mark.

Download: Title: The long journey Filename: thelong.xm	Posted Tue 30th Oct 2007 Rated 6 / 10
A slightly unusual fantasy piece. It's not bad, but it would be the soundtrack for the long journey cross-country for a sci-fi/fantasy B- or C-movie, just before the scene/mood change when the baddies first appear. So if you're a fantasy RPG DM and you need some music to set the mood, this track will do quite well.

Download: Title: * Remember * Filename: remember.xm	Posted Tue 30th Oct 2007 Rated 6 / 10
It's an above-average song, but the guitar samples sound very muddy, which spoils the song right where it was trying for an 8.

Download: Title: tg_map Filename: tg-map.mod	Posted Tue 30th Oct 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Under eight-second intro. Works surprisingly well on a loop, but doesn't go anywhere. Well, duh - it's only got 7.7 seconds to develop in. Download only if you want to study it or grab some samples.

Download: Title: blaze Filename: blaze.mod	Posted Tue 30th Oct 2007 Rated 2 / 10
Slow, rather dull 4 track piece. Musically rather unadventurous. No tune to speak of. Better technically than musically. (Marginally.) Not bad for a piece by a novice, but I hope Skope/Saints went on to produce better. 2.5, rounded down to 2.