K9- All your secrets (k9_allyo.xm)

Posted by arcturus on Sun 9th Jun 2002, rated 5 / 10.

Not having heard anything by K-9 before, I didn't quite know what to expect from this song. After one listening, I can see that K-9 has potential, but does need work in some areas. The song itself is a slow ballad, mostly based on piano and several acoustic guitar samples. It has a simple melody, but falls into the vicious cycle of repetition, as I have seen happen frequently with trackers of this level. The melody itself isn't bad at all, however, I would have liked a bit more complexity. There's use of a vocal sample in here as well (which I'll comment upon a bit more in the technical section) but I don't think it worked out. It didn't really add anything to the song, and would have been better off without it. K-9 certainly will be able to produce some quality material with practice. I was able to enjoy this song somewhat, but it certainly could use some retooling. Not a whole lot of effort was put into making use of stereo, but at least there was stereo panning in there. I couldn't see much technical complexity, and use of effects was minimal to nonexistent. The sampleset itself has a few quality samples, although I didn't like the choice of piano for this particular song. My main problem with the samples is that they aren't tuned very well. After going through all the samples, I'm not sure how many different flat and sharp tones there were. In addition, the vocal samples just don't work. They're VERY flat, and not timed very well with the song. It would have been better off without them.