Orchestral Moodlighting (orchest.s3m)

Posted by Octopvs on Wed 30th May 2007, rated 2 / 10.

About this kind of songs: every tracker must pass through an experimental phase in order to improve their tracking habilities, during which the songs doesn´t come out that easely and doesn´t sound quite right. This initial phase takes in some cases more, in some others less time. Some never make it, due to several problems. Others learn by trying once and again until a good song comes out. Some trackers think their tiny first attempts are great and they wish to publish them, overloading the precious space in the web, making all the reviewing and classification process heavier and slower; lowering the musical level of the Archive; confusing new trackers. I´d like to think they trully believe their songs are great. Anyway, this initial tunes only serve for the tracker to learn and to adquire musical tools that may help them making a coherent song. It´s not about styles; it´s about musical quality. I suggest you trackers to focus yourselves on what you´re doing, comparing your music with the songs of the vast list of great trackers featured by the Archive and make a sincere evaluation of the music you´re doing It´s not the samples, nor the technique; it´s not the notes, chords, rythms, structure, or whatever. It´s the way it all is used. The introduction seems a bit interesting but very soon it gets pointless in the song´s context. Then a chaotic rythm appears going he same throughout the song. The rythm keeps more or less the same, except for a rustic way of "tutti-rippieno", in baroque terms. The bass line is almost imperceptible. At 1´ a crunchy guitar plays a melody -or riff- in fifht parallel chords (an incipient gregorian vein!). A flute makes a contrapunct to the guitar "alla Morriccone". A pair of chords are played by strings. Then the volume fades, and a sort of echo remains. I made jokes around this tune, but I didn´t want to laugh about the composer. I´ve made lots of song worst than this. But, please, don´t submit your first poor tries to the archive. Tech: Samples are lo-quality 8-bit. The use of them is basic and non-creative. The main problem here, and one of the things that make this song so boring, is that the main drum samples are loops, and this loops are horribly saturated. This makes it all sound dichordant and noisy. Yes, there´s actually a tracked drum doubling the noisy loop #1, but it doesn´t help the song too much. The guitar sample is not the best, but it could be used much more better. The wooden flute melody is too basical and, all in all, is just another noise in the song. In few words: no musical or technical interest. Just a "testing-the-program song".