Club Cantina (cantina.it)

Posted by tbagkb on Thu 14th Oct 2021, rated 8 / 10.

Another burner from the 90s from Mr. Owens. The use of gritty voice tracks from the movie paired with the electronic calliope give this version of the infamous "Cantina" song from A New Hope a unique sound even 20 years later. The previous reviewer mentioned that the track sounds half done and only the beginning of something great, but I think the artist put in just the right amount of instrumentation and remix to make an enjoyable track. Again, I really enjoy that calliope jawn and it really imparts a lot to the track.

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Tue 26th Jan 1999, rated 2 / 10.

Ok, you all know the Cantina band music from Star Wars, and if you don't.. shame on you! For the last 21 (nearly 22) years, this song has been heard by millions, so it comes as no surprise that as our technology gets better, and more and more people are tracking MODs, that little cantina mods start popping up all over. This song, to me, sounds like it suffers from a classic case of hearing a catchy tune, and then just quickly tracking it by ear and adding a few things. Now there's nothing wrong with this, but if you're just going to quickly track something by ear, that would be better off as a blueprint that the artist could use to make the song REALLY cool. But in this case, it sounds like it only got half done. It starts off sounding like a video game (the music isn't even sequentially correct), and then the deep percussion comes in. That would've been cool if the sample was of a higher quality, but if just made it sound noisy, and even then, it wouldn't have been enough, by itself, to change the song in one way or the other. The one part I thought was kinda interesting was the ending. in every other version of this song I've heard, it's just been the same old song, no personal touch other than the Star Wars .wavs laced into the music, but in this one, the ending did something I wasn't really expecting. if you're going to download it just because I mentioned that, please skip to the end. other than the percussion, the instruments just consisted of either looped tones, or short beeps, both of them low quality. The percussion is nice, but too fuzzy. The .wavs of course, just have to be there, but unlike Cantina Band (The MOD listed right below this one), the timing wasn't anything special.