Kinky Dinky Waltz (kinky.xm)

Posted by arcturus on Thu 10th Jun 2004, rated 4 / 10.

Don't be fooled by the name - there's no actual kinkiness in this waltz. The music is interesting, it reminds me of music that would be played in German festivals (I've been to many of those, so it's hard to forget the style). It's very short, and the music doesn't particularly grab me. It's a little boring, to be honest. Perhaps waltz just doesn't translate well into mod format - either that or I just haven't heard one that I've liked enough to recommend yet. I don't care endings that loop back to an earlier point in the song, with the possible exception of game music, so the ending certainly leaves something to be desired. The author seems to know what he's doing in 3/4 time. However, I have a major quibble with the final pattern, at the loopback point: the row with the Dxx command (using FT2 effects) plays, and once the row is complete, the jump occurs. However, the author placed the Dxx on row 48. Since we start at row 0, that means that 49 rows ended up playing, and we get an awkward pause before it loops back to the beginning. Moving the Dxx command one row higher fixes this problem. I'm pretty surprised that the author didn't catch that, and so I'm going to have to dock him some points for it. Samples are of mediocre quality, fairly limited set, and the author doesn't really do anything interesting on the technical side of things.