bud peculiar (BUD.MOD)

Posted by m0d on Tue 5th Dec 2006, rated 9 / 10.

Aha. Enter Oldskool demostyle (possibly ripped from an Amiga demo). This piece is clearly from around the early 90's, as the sound of it just screams "demoscene". To be perfectly honest this module will probably be extremely apt at satisfying your taste for a little nostalgia if you were in the scene at that time. The melodies are superb and variation is something I can't complain about here. An overall length of nearly 7 minutes is more than you should be shaking a stick at. Perhaps described genre-wise as a mix of funk and doskpop(?), with synthetic overtones from the 90's. The only one thing I would probably notice is that the key/chord progression throughout is fairly monotonous, however there is probably enough variation going on in the other areas to quench the attention span of most. Overall, extremely cool, nicely made and very listen-able. I'd recommend this for a download-to-keep. I've had this one in my personal collection since the mid 90's. It's easy to tell that the module is old. It's 4 channel protracker format, and that means you've gotta give credit where it's due for bringing off a superb piece of demostyle music given the hardware limitations of the system it was created on. The sample quality is excellent, a lot of the samples are from the "ST-xx" disk collection, which for the period was the most common (if not, the only) source of good samples for modules. The use of tracked (real time) effects in the module is also astoundingly proficient, so the musician who created this certainly knew what they were doing with trackers (FYI: Bjorne Lynne, Dr Awesome).