The Ragit Bunting or (jam005.xm)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Thu 14th Mar 2002, rated 8 / 10.

Jamsok is a new guy to me. Never before heard his music, but now that I've listened 3 of his songs, I can tell, that he is quite nice artist. His songs are a bit different than the styles usually represent and he has some nice ideas and potential in his tracks. This piece starts of with synths that somehow remind me of Amiga. And why not even a bit longer? Drums get involved and nice bassline in the background is refreshing while the synths create their own world of small melodies. This tune runs nicely forward, but longer I listen to this, it is more harder to think what style of music am I listening to. Sounds like synthpop to me , but then somewhere around 2.30 the song starts to play some electric guitars and as the songs continues the guitar stays in the background and the synthleadsolo sounds a bit like guitar, so I decided that this might have something to do with synthrock.=) Actually if some of the synths would have been changed into guitars, this song might sound pretty nice too since the drums and bass sound quite "real" in a way. I liked the contrast of synths and "real" instruments in this song. Don't know why really cause it is quite usual. And I liked the bass - it played well and it could be heard, but it also wasn't too loud. Really nice tune overall. Different enough to make it sound fresh,but also simple enough to make it fit to everyone from the listeners point. I really cannot complain about the samples cause those were nice, but I still think that those are also the weakest link in this song. There are both 8- and 16-bit samples played, but the song could (as almost every song) sound better with some different samples. Synths were nice but were maybe played a bit too high in some points. Effects were used nicely and the artist really knows the meaning of 'em. Very nice job Jamsok. Looking forward for some new production...=)