Atmosphere (dr_atmosphere.xm)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Mon 27th May 2002, rated 5 / 10.

DR aka Daniel Rong is unfamiliar artist to me, but now I've been listening some of his music and still... I know nothing about him.=) He is propably a newbie and that conclusion was made after listening two of his songs. This track represents the style of experimental trance... It is hard to dance, but it might work when your drunk..=) So how does it sound? Like this... The beginning is quite promising with its nice effectsamples, bass and synthline that fades in and out. Then a bassdrum starts to pump and it is followed claps and that synthline from the beginning is playing on and on, fading in and out. But then something dramatic happens...=) Synths get some psychedelic influences for a while and the song starts to lose its control... Soon the synth is delirious and all samples are not in tune anymore...But then again the song starts to end and the outro is pretty good like the intro was. Besides the beginning and ending there were some nice keychanges and the synthline was pretty good until it went mad. What about the bad things then? I really waited to hear some more hihats. Now the claps and bassdrum were the only percussions that could be heard actually. The psychedelia is also something that should be considered more carefully next time. The idea is usually good,but it should also be tracked so well that it would sound good. In this track it might annoy a lot. Also a bit more variation would be nice... You could actually say that artist has created a nice painting, but put it into a bad frames. Another version with some changes might actually sound good.=) Keep on hanging DR, this one can be turned into really good track. Samples were quite nice,but it wouldn't hurt to add some more sounds to this track. I liked the soundeffects and the mainsynth. There wasn't any huge amount of effects used. Some panning and sliding, but nothing major. Samples weren't always in tune and that should be checked since it sounds a bit disturbing. And oh yes... As I said, the outro was good, but next time DR don't cut the volumes off until the samples have faded out.=) Now it ends like into the wall...=)