K9 : Symphony (k9_symph.xm)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Mon 18th Mar 2002, rated 6 / 10.

K-9 has few songs in MA,but he cannot be founded from artist list. Anyway he is one of those dudes who propably haven't been tracking so long yet, but have some nice musical ideas and potential to be a good tracker.So keep on K-9.=) Song starts really nicely with piano and then it gets in some strings and flute. Drums come into background and soon the violins take their place as a main instrument in this song. Then the piano comes along again and the song travels through its journey.. Sounds good, eh? It is,but it also has some flaws that should be repaired and that lowers the score. First thing that disturbed me, were the drums. When the music is mostly classical, I don't think that deep "techno" bassdrum fit along so well and same thing with the snare although it wasn't so techno as the bd was.=) Second thing was the violins. They sound good, but I would've liked to hear them play longer... Now they were cutted of too quickly and the soft tone of 'em were lost. And the last thing was that the song was a bit repetitive. Almost every pattern was different but sometimes the changes were so minor that it had no effect at all. Then again there were also many good things. I liked the piano very much although it was simple and the strings were also nice. Violins sounded good and it was actually pretty bold action from the artist since these particular violins aren't so easy to use correctly. But I also think that those violins could have been used more effectively. Intro and outro were really good and the structure of the song was pretty whole. Good start K-9.=) Carry on there. As I said the structure was ok and patterns sounded very nice in some points. panning was tried to use very effectively, but it wasn't so success that artist propably hoped. At least it has no greater effect into my ear. Some pop/click sounds from the samples came through while listening, but it wasn't so critical. Samples were both 8- and 16-bits and weren't selected so well as they could have. Next time K-9 test some other samples too before deciding. Everything else was ok, but the drums were a bit different style than the song overall.=) Still, nice little tune.