" Killed Imagine " (ins-ki.xm)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Mon 31st May 1999, rated 5 / 10.

The piece opens with a synth rhythm, and a sweep picks up the background. Add in a breakbeat and a flanged chipsound, and you've got yourself a song. There are actually some very good ideas in this piece, but they weren't enough to bring the whole together. It's repetitive, and he used a canned breakbeat that annoys the ear. Even so, if this piece were done right, it could turn out something almost worth listening to... But technically, it's horrible. Oh, joy, InSAnE has learned how to use Panbrello and flanged samples... That's the only positive thing about the tech here. The samples aren't tuned together, and it shows. It might be permissible, if it were simply discord, but they go against each other in halftones, which is just sloppy. Then, the work wasn't normalized, so that the synth rhythm's volume keeps stepping up and down as other instruments come in and go out. I'm surprised, though... He did manage to time the breakbeat right. All in all, this piece is just too annoying to the listener because of its numerous technical faults to warrant a download.