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Spuds - pip-spuds.it |
Review Score: 6/10 |
Overall Impression (6/10)
Well, the artist on this song, tried to present some type of classic rock but i think it didn't reach quite there, mainly because the guitars don't sound that much of a guitar, lacks some strength on the chords, the lead guitar is good, sounds good too, but only shows up once, some more development should have been done in there. Also the artist tried to make the melody of the power chords, giving them the central attention, when i think the lead guitar was supposed to do that. The drums are ok. Some other instruments are needed, maybe voices or something to fill up the sound. But there's effort on the melody so everything is not lost.
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Funkiness - funkin_x.it |
Review Score: 8/10 |
Overall Impression (8/10)
This a quite fun music music to hear, great vibe, great groove and like you said, it should have been more developed, maybe some jamming or something and it would be perfect. But everything is well balanced and worth a listen.
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libresse - libresse.mod |
Review Score: 7/10 |
Overall Impression (7/10)
it's a looped chip tune that it's quite small in it's duration, barely reaching the 1min mark. Has a quite nice melody and interesting transitions with a nice simple beat. Six patterns make the delight but it leaves a taste for wanting more. Maybe next time :)
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HAL by nmioaon - hal_by_nmioaon.xm |
Review Score: 5/10 |
Overall Impression (6/10)
At a rate of 360bpm this song is pretty fast, making it in a more or less drum&bass style, but besides some attempt at creating a nice melody with synths and pads, more spaced of course, i think the song is still quite fast, the hit-hat is pretty crazy :) It also ends abruptly, leaving us with the feeling of something still unfinished.
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%# kisses of the rain #% - kisses_of_the_rain.s3m |
Review Score: 7/10 |
Overall Impression (7/10)
Well this song as a nice melody that is mainly what holds the listener till the end. The sample quality is quite ok, leaving the song fairly listenable. Basically it revolves around a synth sample that creates the melody around some simple drums and some strings, it's understandable this limitation because the artist only uses 4 channels.
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Mental Breeze - mental_breeze.xm |
Review Score: 6/10 |
Overall Impression (6/10)
Well, this trance song is quite ok to listen, but the main feeling is that i've already listen to this type of melody hundreds of times, so on the creativity level there's not much to praise. There's a nice vibe going on and this could work on a big dance floor, mainly because it's so similar to a lot of other stuff. It's an ok job.
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War in the Middle Earth - war_in_the_middle_earth.s3m |
Review Score: 9/10 |
Overall Impression (8/10)
This is an overall great piece of music, great variation, tension building and great compositional skills. There's an urgency type of feeling on this song, so the title fits and as a great beginning, great mood variations and also an ok ending. It's only weak point it's the quality of the samples, but this is a tune from 1994, so it's quite understandable.
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the train home - the_train_home.mod |
Review Score: 5/10 |
Overall Impression (4/10)
Well, this song has quite some painful samples and it's pretty much the main problem of the song, along with the duration, almost reaching the 6 min mark. There's quite some variation, the artist changes it's melody quite a bit, looks like several songs on the same file, given the idea that this was composed for a very old video game.
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Bad Weekend - badweek.xm |
Review Score: 6/10 |
Overall Impression (6/10)
Well, due to the name of the song, we really don't know if the artist concluded this out of some frustration or is just joking around with us. But it's quite an ok song, but it really doesn't varies much of it's main melody. The synth is well done and it's interesting but there's some elements that just don't fit quite well.
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{^} rising sun {^} - rising_sun.mod |
Review Score: 7/10 |
Overall Impression (7/10)
This is quite a simple music with a simple melody and few samples, but it's great mood offers great replayability and it's great for background, like a diskmag. But as a standalone music, offers little, with nearly 2min if this was a full complete song the beat or evolution, the next step would continue from there. Great skills avyway and great mood.
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BaBe (136BPM Mix) - babe.xm |
Review Score: 6/10 |
Overall Impression (6/10)
This is a quite simple dance song, with some vocals, revolving around "baby". Although it's quite enjoyable it not varies the main theme that much, loosing some of it's interest quite rapidly. Even so, if anyone likes dance tunes, this one will be of some satisfaction.
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Desert Wind . by Wonder - desert_wind_by_wonder.s3m |
Review Score: 6/10 |
Overall Impression (6/10)
The overall impression of this song is ok, there's not much of a quality on the sound itself but the melody is quite enjoyable. On it's 2min this type of demo pop / rock song managed to create a good mood, even if that lead sample sometimes is little harsh on the ears. There's no ending, the artist choose to make a looping song, even if the playability isn't something i would request a lot.
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prenaution - prenaution.mod |
Review Score: 5/10 |
Overall Impression (6/10)
Well, this song has quite some repetition on the melodies as well the drums but it's balanced by some well chosen samples that make a quite solid groove. It's too bad the main idea got stretched by 6m51s hurting the listener who finds himself caught in a small part of the good groove but running like forever.
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Flight - b_flight.it |
Review Score: 8/10 |
Overall Impression (8/10)
This song is quite enjoyable, with a good melody and great arrangements, making it's way to the genre of trancy / fantasy / demosong pop feeling. There's great replayability, even if i think that should be a stronger lead melody, with more presence, but all is balanced the right way, good beginning and an ok ending make this song a good addition to your hardrive.
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pin.xm - pin.xm |
Review Score: 3/10 |
Overall Impression (3/10)
There's quite some extreme sound in here, very dark and laking a proper melody, at least some we can identify with. It repeats quite a bit also, leaving the listener a little bored pretty fast, as fast as the 1minute mark, the song totals 2 min. Some poor selection on the samples and pretty basic drum lines, even if it's fast paced the artist should have taken more attention on the beginning and ending of the song, giving it some meaning. I don't know if this was one of the first attempts at writing tracked music, or something made in a very tight schedule, but it sure seems like it. Everything looks and feels very rushed really hurting the song or message that the artist was trying to pass through, there's some fair building up in the end, but it's not enough to save the song. My advice is to calm down, and try to analyze stuff first, like selection of samples, beginning/middle/end of song and try to listen/see other peoples work and most importantly, vary the patterns at the most, repetition is a easy way to make it, but difficult to be liked by everyone... Keep on tracking and perfect those skills.
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Sweet kitty's lullaby - kitty.it |
Review Score: 7/10 |
Overall Impression (7/10)
well, this song as quite a nice melody, with a good beginning, middle and end and has a good replayability. There's only some minor problems that prevent this song from being great, we're going to look at those further on this review. Looks like a soft rock and piano song that keeps a interest going mainly because of that lullaby feeling and good balancing.
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the-red-one - musix-the-red-one.mod |
Review Score: 5/10 |
Overall Impression (5/10)
Well, for an overall impression this song, reminded me of course of the old mods made on the Amiga computer, so as for the the nostalgic feeling i'll give you some credits, but there's some problems that i will discuss later that really hurt the song. But there's some growing musician in here, because the overall tone of the song feels ok and it's not a complete disaster. This song, as some euro-dance feeling to it, along with some weird fusion of styles that i can't figure out. Read on.
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Translucent - pip-tluce.it |
Review Score: 6/10 |
Overall Impression (6/10)
Well, the overall impression of this song was ok for me, not too flashy, but also not too bad, besides some problems that i will explain later, i retained a good feeling from this song, making me, if given the opportunity, listen to more of the artist work.
Chisel - pip-chisel.it
Review Score: 7/10
Overall Impression (8/10)
Well, this song is quite enjoyable and well made with quite some variation with some different parts through out it's duration. Heavy parts are very well done and the touch of the live feeling is very welcome, filling the sound. It only lacks some guitar solo or a guitar melody to make it less boring and voices, even if it is only some grunts or shouts. But likes this kind of sound and into tracking will love checking how it was made. Good work.