kuutamotanssi (kuutamot.xm)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Sat 30th Mar 2002, rated 7 / 10.

This Cirdan guy is a Finnish composer. I've listened now couple of his songs and think that he is a good artist and he uses.. well, different kind of samples. Which is good since now those sound pretty fresh and kinda "old".=) But let's check what we have here... Song starts like an old discotune but there are trumpets that eliminate that feeling for a while. But only for a while.The beginning also contains nice "hits" that gives a "massive" effect.=) Now the song sounds like any other poptune with synths, strings and drums and soon the trumpets come along again. So far I have been bothered the soft bassdrum. It really is so soft that it is hard to notice. I would like that a bit stronger. Till the end the song flows nicely without any bigger melodies except for those trumpets that have created some sort of chorus. Even I liked the trumpets, those could have been used better. The quality on 'em weren't so good and were now played with pretty low volume. I also liked the idea of those "hits", but maybe they were now too heavy? Not much, but just a bit.=) Anyway, I like this guys style. He has a nice way to create the song and the samples he is using are nice. I was left with a positive feeling of this song although it is not spectacular in any way. Nice tune Cirdan.=) Tracking in this song was pretty good. Many channels were used, but the song stayed clear and good. Every sample except for one was an 8-bit quality, and it gave a nice "oldies / oldskool" effect to this. Effects were used a lot and the artist did knew the meaning of 'em. Panning was good although it didn't create any marvelous echos or something, but the soundscape was now maybe a bit wider than it would otherwise be. Nothing special to complain here either.=)