DMM Themetune (dm_theme.s3m)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Mon 29th Apr 2002, rated 8 / 10.

Artist Darkmoon is from Essex, England and seems to be a quite good tracker. Well, what this track shows is that he surely has nice musical ideas,but the song ain' complexed at all. This sounds a bit like an Amiga mod as a multichannel-version. And it sounds... well, good actually.=) This song starts with good and rare strings and it is supported by clear bellsample-melody. After the intro the song gets in some synths and drums and it sounds now like some sort of game music. Nice synthpop with a small taste of adventure in it. Around 1.30 the song changes a bit and this point is the greatest in my opinion.=) The bassdrum is heavy here and the strings together with bells create a lovely athmosphere. To me it sounds like a mix of "Exorcist-theme" and Johnny Violent's hardcoreproject "Ultraviolence". Then the song returns to the softer style again and the song ends in 2.53. When I first listened this song, I wasn't impressed in anyway, but now I love it. For me it gives something that makes me want to track. I get an urge to create something that would have such an aggression that this song performs in some places. Very good job in my opinion.=) This song proves once again that technical side ain't that important if the song works anyway. There is no use of effects or any 16-bit samples, no vocals and actually all the samples sound pretty lame if you listen them through. But when you use those like Darkmoon has used, the result can be very nice to listen. This song ain't complexed as I wrote earlier, but there is enough variation and textures are really nice. Nice arrangement was displayed in this piece. Worth trying.=)