Bass Explosion (bass_explosion.it)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Sun 5th May 2002, rated 8 / 10.

Dj Scorpion... A new tracker for me, but this hard trance track got me convinced that maybe I should check some more of his stuff.=) This is quite aggressive piece of music, but that is one thing that I love in electronic music. On the other hand, this song is maybe a bit too monotonic... Nice one anyway.=) A synthsweep in the beginning playing for a while on its own, the synths fade in and bass gets to the background. Bassdrum hits once in a while till it starts to pump steadily. It is followed by a lovely industrial-snare and hihats. Then the synths fade out, and suddenly a highpitched synth breaks the air. It takes control of this song, and for a second the song has some hardcore influences. Some notechanges in this songs travel to end is used, but when that highpitched synth appeared the rest of the song actually repeats itself. I know that this kind of stuff does almost always, but it would be nice to hear some more variation to these tracks. A good idea is usually used too much and that thing has happened here too... Still, I liked this trancetune. I got couple of compilations of hard trance and this could very well appear on those. No mistakes anywhere, but a bit too repetitive. I'll check other tunes too and see how this Dj Scorpion has created his other tracks.=) Nice job Scorpion... I liked the instruments that were chosen to this piece. Especially the leadsample that was distorted and twisted. Pretty common sample in this style of trance but rarely I've heaed it used in mods. It was refreshing. Samplequality was mostly 16-bit so the soundworld is pretty clean. Use of effects wasn't anything that special.. In the beginning there was some midi macros and then there was some panning and vibration... Tracking was simple, but it worked ok... I'll recommend this to the people that are into some heavier style of trance...