Blacksheen (blacksheen.it)

Posted by christofori on Fri 1st Aug 2003, rated 9 / 10.

This song's quite different from most I've ever heard. There are quite a few great things about it; there are several wonderful ideas; many of the differing sections seem totally unrelated; yet the artist has crafted great transitions between them; they fit together flawlessly. The tune starts off fairly strange; but from there, it continues to get better and better. There's a tad bit too much panning back and forth (and back and forth...) for my tastes; though it kind of creates an interesting feel for the music. Many of the samples sound pretty lo-fi, yet they all sound good for a tune like this. My favorite section is near the end; everything else seems to lead right up to it. There are parts of this tune that seem a little repeatitive; however, the artist adds well-made counter-melodies to help break up the feeling that you've heard this motive before. Overall, quite an interesting piece of work; sounds great! The tracking in this tune looks pretty good; nothing extremely advanced, but definately not novice or basic. There are some pretty radical pannings (meaning too much) - more dynamic contrast would help to balance that a bit; but still I think the panning should be backed down some. The samples are a decent mix of lo-fi and great sounding 16-bit samples; there's a lot of percussive samples (which are well used) that help the song get a Jungle/Tribal kind of sound. There was only really one sample that had a buggy loop point; the rest sounded great. The section I mentioned above that I liked most starts in pattern 31. :) Overall, this tune's not really pro-level stuff; but it's definately catchy. It's got it's minor issues, but really sounds quite impressive as it is now. Great work!