*SpAcE MoNkEyS* (ll_sm.xm)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Wed 6th Feb 2002, rated 8 / 10.

Synthsample and amigabass in the beginning, sounds creepy huh? =) Well, read more before rejecting this piece. As more samples come along the song begins to sound very interesting. Drumpattern is quite unusual, but works very well, actually in my opinion drums and percussions overall are one of the most important and effective things in this piece although I think that some other sort of snare would maybe serve better in this song. There was also some excellent use of soundeffects that served also as percussions. Actually the whole song was filled with soundeffects. Usually the "fills" in these songs sound messy if they are used a lot but not here. Artist sure has known what he was doing. Strings sound very good in every place and vocals fit to selected places. Musically this song is excellent except for couple of things. First, this doesn't really sound like a song. It really has no melody that could be catched it is just something that you listen through (very nice to listen). And second thing is track number 1. It uses 30(!) different samples and for me it sounds that the whoke track is out of tune. I listened this song first with it and 4 next times with channel 1 off. Sounds much better.=) Very interesting and different song. Nice job. Huge amount of samples is used in this one. Most of them are some sort of effects and as told ,30 samples are used on track that should be cutted off.=) Nice samples anyway and extremely well used in some points but the piano in the end didn't sounded so good as it could. Artist also knows for sure how to use effects. Patterns were filled with effects and those were also used with some considering, not in style that "something here and something there". 8 bit samples sound good enough and with 16 bit samples this songs size would be huge.=) Song lenght is 6.06 but it flows fast and doesn't get boring. Very well worth trying.