axk8 (axk8.mod)

Posted by dysamoria on Wed 1st Feb 2023, rated 9 / 10.

This song is musically brilliant. It's like a collision between 80s synth pop and classical (Bach comes to mind). It has a complex poly-melody/polyrhythm made up of multiple staccato lines running concurrently that compliment each other wonderfully.

The interwoven melodies dance back and forth between the left and right channels making excellent use of the hard-panned L/R sound-stage. As a result, the song feels fairly balanced, which is rarely accomplished with this old 4-channel Amiga soundtracker module format.

Posted by Songerson on Thu 9th Jul 2020, rated 10 / 10.

This melody is ingenious. Its structure is perfect. Like a good joke, it has setup (patterns 0–9) and punchline (patterns 10–11). If you hear the last two patterns (10 and 11), you would probably think: "Wow, I didn't expect this song to be SO good", because it reveals its nature gradually. Key details are being added pattern by pattern, making up at the end a full-fledged work of demoscene art. To secure its influence on the listener, the melody repeats its second half (patterns 5–11) again, leaving the listener defeated. Download this module now, and touch the classics of demoscene culture.

Posted by Robyn on Sun 31st May 2015, rated 10 / 10.

Extremely underrated Amiga tune from 1988. It uses the default Soundtracker samples very well, and shouldn't be judged by them either.