FuturoShock (2d-fs.it)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Wed 3rd Jul 2002, rated 8 / 10.

Here we have another very promising Russian Tracker Double_D. For some reason, I have discovered many very good Russian trackers in the past year - which is nice actually.=) This guy seems to be into rave and techno what I can tell from the website I visited.... Intro of this song contains synths and bassdrum, before it hits for the action and some other drums with synths come along. So far I had a wide smile on my face when listening to this. It is rare and wonderful to hear something like this. Nice sounding hard trance with goa influences. Or vice versa. It is hard to draw the line in this kind of music,but for me it sounds more like trance with goa.=) There was some nice disharmony in the song partially. It gave a small hypnotic spice to this track and overall I enjoyed many things in this song. Good steady action was shown here mostly so people who require some sort of melody to this kind of music propably don't like this so much. The thing that controls this tune is steady pumping beat and pretty dark synths. Maybe even too dark since sometimes this song sounds that there is too much bass and low notes... If something should be found to complain, it would be "too dark" athmosphere and the fact that this song could be shorter. It now plays for 9.17, but towards the end there is nothing new and so the track starts to repeat itself a bit. BUt despite those facts thise is a very well tracked song.=) As these songs usually, many of the tracks are filled with synths. So is this. Propably the most difficult part of composing some goa is that there is surprisingly much of stuff in the song so it starts to sound really good and massive. And when you got lots of stuff there you should make it sound good without samples bluring. Double_D has used some Midi-macros here and the samples are 16-bit so the soundworld is very good and clean. Most of the samples are btw done by the artist himself. Not bad, not bad... Overall this one was a very good opening from this guy. I'll propably check some more of his stuff.=)