Ride Lavender Wind (lavender.xm)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Sun 20th Oct 2002, rated 8 / 10.

Xerion is an "oldtimer" from USA. With oldtimer I mean that he has been tracking for 12 years so far, so the music he produces should be pretty good. According to his artistpage he likes new age and jazz. Probably you can hear those influences in his music.=) This song has no actual intro, it just raises quite fast into beginning and when it has started, you can already tell, that this guy has done some music before. Nice percussions, chords, melodies and strings are in the air. Oh yes...But hey! What now? It ended? Gees... No, the song is 4 minutes long and nothing actually happened yet, so where is the problem? There that this song did not get my attention, but television without sound did.=) So I start to listen this song all over again. I listen to it now three times. I still think that it is wonderful song. Everything is fixed up and I cannot find any flaws. I actually get this feeling that if Moby would still be in the scene, he might do something like this. Especially the strings give me this feeling. This song uses many samples and there is lot of variation, but it also rides itself through with pretty minor changes.. You know what I mean. The song does not repeat itself, but it seems that it would just play on and on and then it ends. It stands still! There it was.=) But hey, very nice work anyway.=) Yeah... There can be lots of stuff in 4 minutes. This song has "normal" amount of everything. I mean the effects were used, but it wasn't tricky yet. Tracking was very well done, but still it was clean and so on. So if we put those together - it means that everything was in balance.=) Samplequality was something from 8 to 16- bit. Overall this song was extremely well done and composed, it just didn't reached my "I-love-this"-button. Too bad in a way, but I'm quite sure that many of you readers like this.=) Worth checking.