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Title: night drizzle Filename: night_dr.mod |
Posted Wed 20th Jan 1999
Rated 8 / 10 |
| A very old mod from 1991. Firm synthpop with electronic piano. A smooth and melodic piece this one. Not so much to complain, the song isn't repetitive, it keeps going interesting all the time and it has good melodies. If you are an oldies fan, get this, and get it anyway... Again a great song in only 4-channels, and the samples aren't so bad either to think that this is a very old mod. It seems to me like all mods from the early '90s are good (atleast what I've heard) because at that time tracking wasn't so usual and only good trackers got into it. And anyway, who would upload an lousy old mod at MA? ;) | |
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Title: MZ % Nights Filename: nights.it |
Posted Sun 10th Jan 1999
Rated 8 / 10 |
| A nice rock tune here, but it doesn't conquer the problem that is the most common in rock mods. You can hear that it is made with a computer. Well, it's still a good rock tune, and it deserves a download with it's nice piano riffs between the aggressive rocking. Samples are very good and clear. The song is very melodic and nice to listen to. A definite download for anyone who has got bored with the massive dance/techno-offering of tracked music. | |
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Title: the-nightshift Filename: nightshi.mod |
Posted Sun 10th Jan 1999
Rated 7 / 10 |
| A pretty cool demo song here with cool melodies. The song has only 15 different patterns from 48, but it doesn't still sound too repetitive. Wonder how Gizmo did create this illusion? ;) Very detailed made, as the best demo songs usually are. The samples are pretty chip-stylish, but they work fine here. Only thing that needed improvement was the lead guitar, which sounded too noisy. Otherwise the samples are fine for a .MOD from '95. | |
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Title: |\| Filename: nighttra.xm |
Posted Sun 10th Jan 1999
Rated 7 / 10 |
| At first this song starts with the basic hardcore drumming, but after a while it gets some life to it with great ambient-like strings. When the strings come in, they also make the acid line sound good. Also the part where the strings are again alone and the slowed breakbeat comes in is great. The song is still pretty repetitive, because the composer has just using the ambient strings and not much more instruments for variation. The bassdrum sample seemed to be a bit scratchy, but otherwise the drum samples were pretty good, but the ambient-strings save the whole song from total disaster. This is one of the better hardcore songs that I've ever heard. | |
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Title: in the coldest hour Filename: nigt8bit.xm |
Posted Sun 10th Jan 1999
Rated 6 / 10 |
| Again Sunny presents some ambient. It's just too bad that this definetly isn't my style, because I like more some rythm based music, so I just find this song too boring with only some synths and quite speaking in the background. This song reminds me of all those weird videos that I've seen in M2 from satellite. The samples are mostly strings and quiet vocals. Maybe some of you ambient-lovers want to flow away with this piece of music, but this is just not for my taste. I'm not saying that Sunny isn't a skilled tracker, I just don't like his music (atleast the songs that I've heard). | |
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Title: Nimbus Filename: nimbus.mod |
Posted Sun 10th Jan 1999
Rated 5 / 10 |
| The song starts out pretty nicely with a nice synth lead, though the sample used was pretty weird. After that it starts to play some melodies that seem like they were just squeezed in with force to make the song sound more varifying, and they sound pretty bad. The samples are bad, and only thing that makes this song sound even something worth listening to, is the first lead sample which is very cool sounding. The song also drops up too shortly, only after 2:30 minutes. | |
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Title: ninas-dream Filename: ninas_dr.mod |
Posted Sun 10th Jan 1999
Rated 8 / 10 |
| Written for a girlfriend who was sleeping the time the song was composed and her name was Nina, so the song name is pretty obvious. This is a nice pop style tune with good melodies. The song doesn't sound like it was made in ยด94 like it has been, and that surprised me. The song has much variation and it doesn't get too boring, it just brings you good melodies after another. Too bad this isn't just the music style that I usually like to listen. Good samples for a mod. Again a great tune made in 4 channels, how could they do it? It's the great technics and effects that Gizmo uses that make it sound so fresh, which has been a problem for some older mods that I've reviewed here. | |
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Title: At The Heart Of It All Filename: nin-at.s3m |
Posted Sun 10th Jan 1999
Rated 5 / 10 |
| Again a Nine Inch Nail-remake. Never heard the original and if it's the same as this, I haven't missed a lot. Ofcourse the song has some nice strings, but it's way too dull for me. Also the beat looping within the song is pretty awful sounding. There are only few samples, so you can guess how boring this one was. The strings sounded nice, and you could listen to them for a while, but the drum samples were bad, very noisy. The song is very repetitive, there are the same strings playing around and around with some instruments changing, so it means a lot of copy/paste has been done here. Also the song quits quite suddenly. The samples were the melody here because there was one string sample that played the whole string melody, so nothing very artistic here. | |
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Title: Nintendo rebirth Filename: nintendo.xm |
Posted Wed 6th Jan 1999
Rated 5 / 10 |
| A dance tune with a very common key in it, and it's heard so many times that it hurts the originality of the song. Otherwise this is a pretty ok dance song, it just seems like unfinished because it's not even 2 minutes long. All the basics in the dance music under control (drum beat, base line etc.). Only the lead sample is out of tune and it makes the song pretty awful to listen to, and in the end of the song the lead stops too suddenly. | |
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Title: ninjabunny Filename: NINJRABB.MOD |
Posted Wed 6th Jan 1999
Rated 7 / 10 |
| A nifty pop tune, a very usual style in these old mods. A great bassline, working drum beat and nice pad leads. Some japanese style synth melodies in the song, which propably causes the name. This is a pretty average pop mod. Sometimes the song sounds kind of same as the music in the 3d shooting and killing game "Shadow Warrior". Well, the samples. Bass guitar is surprisingly good for a .MOD, but the drums are pretty bad. Also the orchestral hit sounded pretty weird and didn't fit to the song at all.The japanese synths give the song a nice originality and the song is pretty nice sounding, but I couldn't listen to it many times... | |
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Title: NIN Melody Re-Mix I Filename: nin_realmix.s3m |
Posted Wed 6th Jan 1999
Rated 5 / 10 |
| I guess this is a Nine Inch Nails megamix, I'm not sure because I haven't listened so much of them. Anyway the song is mostly just drumloops and some bad melody with them. In the beginning the song sounds good for a while, but then it just starts to repeat different drumloops, and the length that is over 12 minutes is way too much here. Naturally in .S3M, all samples were 8-bit. They were also very bad, and some of the drumloops were off beat sometimes. Also the song is so boring that this song is very hard to listen to the end. Maybe if you're a big fan of NIN, you might download this, but I won't recommend it. | |
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Title: Get Down Make Love - NIN Filename: NIN_LOVE.S3M |
Posted Wed 6th Jan 1999
Rated 5 / 10 |
| Original by NIN. This is a pretty dull song, atleast I think so, because I'm not really a fan of NIN. Again some drumloops and vocals to go with it. If you like this style, than you might download. The song had too much of samples with women screaming "aah", it started to annoy me. Also the drums seemed off beat, but Bedlamite says that it will fix if you listen to them in ST3. | |
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Title: NIN - Head Like A Hole Filename: NIN_HEAD.S3M |
Posted Wed 6th Jan 1999
Rated 6 / 10 |
| A remix of a song by Nine Inch Nails. Haven't heard the original one, but this is totally not my music style. It sounds some times pretty good, but the lead guitar is awful, just too fast and noisy. For NIN fans this might be a good download, it sounds quite real with vocals. The song is otherwise made pretty well, but the drums seem a bit off beat sometimes, and the ending is pretty weird. Only bad thing here is that this is definetly not my music style. | |
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Title: NIN >> Closer << NIN Filename: NIN_CLSR.S3M |
Posted Wed 6th Jan 1999
Rated 7 / 10 |
| Again a remix from NIN song. This one is actually pretty good, better than the other NIN remixes I reviewed. This time the guitars are good and not too heavy for me, and the beat is well under control here. The drums seem off beat here like in other Bedlamite's NIN songs that I've reviewed. Maybe it just faults in Modplug and CP2. Composer said in one of his NIN remixes that you should listen the songs with ST3 if the off-beating disturbs you. | |
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Title: SONiC EMPiRE Filename: ngs_snic.xm |
Posted Wed 6th Jan 1999
Rated 8 / 10 |
| This is a song originally made by Members Of Mayday. Sounds pretty much like the original. I never liked the original so much, but this song kicks! A good bass beating itself and the bass synth line helping the main melody to make you dance wildly. Ofcourse it's pretty repetitive, but that's kind of usual in these club tunes, and it still sounds good. Samples are of good quality. Solution NGS has done the convertion very well, and made the song sound even better than the original (at least I think so). No technical errors, NGS must be a pretty experienced tracker. | |
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Title: RedemptionRMX Filename: ngs_rdmn.xm |
Posted Wed 6th Jan 1999
Rated 8 / 10 |
| The original one is one of my favourite tunes ever by RMB. Ofcourse this song isn't as good as the original, but NGS has still managed to make a good convertion here. The song is pretty repetitive and missed some variation. The strings are great backing up the awesome lead. If you haven't ever heard of RMB and you like trancey dance music, give this a shot and then buy the record ;) Samples are quite good quality, only few 8-bit. No special effects, atleast I don't hear any, except the volume changes on the strings in middle of the song are absolutely fantastic. Maybe too much repetition, but the song is still pretty awesome. RMB rules!! :) | |
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Title: InsomniaRMX - NGS Filename: ngs_insm.xm |
Posted Wed 6th Jan 1999
Rated 7 / 10 |
| Remix of the great song "Insomnia" by Faithless. It's pretty much just a simple version of the original one, without the vocals. The song is pretty repetitive and the song is almost all about the lead melody. Ofcourse this is one of the best remixes of the song that I heard. (btw, the best remix of this song is Insomnia'98 by Dj Unique) The samples are pretty average. They are all 8-bit. The song could have been made more complex, more like the part that starts in 1:14 where the synth is effected with sample offset which was very cool. Otherwise it's just typical dance beat with the main melody. A bass line would have been already a great improvement. | |
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Title: HigherStateOfDreamin Filename: ngs_hsod.xm |
Posted Wed 6th Jan 1999
Rated 8 / 10 |
| This is the same style of dance music that I compose, so this is just my taste of dance music. The synths are great and the beat is perfect. The part were the synths break for a while and the strings come in, and then the synths rise again, is just awesome! And then the song gets some acids and a different drum beat. For a club fan, this is a must download! Great job by NGS. The song manages to keep away the monster of all trackers, repetition. Only thing that bothers me is the "dream" sample that is repeated too much. Otherwise NGS has again shown his skills of tracking great dance music. Samples are very good quality, about 50-50 with 8-bit and 16-bit samples. | |
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Title: Smells Like Nirvana Filename: NIRVANA.MOD |
Posted Sat 2nd Jan 1999
Rated 4 / 10 |
| A mod-convertion of the legendary Nirvana song "Smells Like Teen Spirit". It goes pretty well imitating the original one, until the legendary guitar riff takes place, where the composer of the mod messes up the lead guitar. Then the song just starts to play looped. Propably the worst version of the song that I've heard. (Actually I only have heard another version by Broman/Stimulus which was in a very different class...) Samples were bad, but that's not a big surprise knowing that this is an old 4-chn .MOD from propably early 90's. The song is also too short and it kind of just stops suddenly when listening in ModPlug, and in CP2 it started to play looped. Kurt Cobain would turn in his grave if he would hear this, with all due respect. | |
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Title: nitro4.xm Filename: nitro4.xm |
Posted Sat 2nd Jan 1999
Rated 5 / 10 |
| Here is again a dance/club style song with a too rough and loud lead synth. But this is still one of the better songs by Dj Nitrogen that I've reviewed here. The song gets too repetitive but the synth theme varies nicely. The lead synth was pretty bad, and the background beeping only made you mad while listening. Dj Nitrogen says that he spent 2 hours with this song. Well, in my opinion he should have spent a lot more time, and varify the song a bit more, and finding better samples. | |
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Title: nitro5.xm Filename: nitro5.xm |
Posted Sat 2nd Jan 1999
Rated 4 / 10 |
| This is musically one of the best ones by Dj Nitrogen that I've heard so far, with a nice synth and even an intro. Here Dj Nitrogen doesn't even repeat the patterns too much, but there is still a slight taste of repetition. Dj Nitrogen has a bad habit of using the same samples in his song, for example the space synth and the alert sound were already in some other of his tunes. This song isn't repeated so much as other songs by him that I've reviewed, but still it would have needed a bass line and more complex drumming. The drum samples were pretty poor. | |
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Title: nitro6.xm Filename: nitro6.xm |
Posted Sat 2nd Jan 1999
Rated 4 / 10 |
| For an exception from some Dj Nitrogen songs, this song actually has a melody and a snare with the bassdrum. But the repetition strikes here too with only 6 different patters from 22 used. This is just boring. Samples were good, except the "Make some noise"-scream which was awful and overused in the song. Repetition ruined again a song. Dj Nitrogen should have used a lead synth here with the bass line and more breaks in the beat and maybe some key changes. That's all I can say. | |
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Title: nitro7.xm Filename: nitro7.xm |
Posted Sat 2nd Jan 1999
Rated 3 / 10 |
| Like Novus says in his Wide World Of Mods, you shouldn't have a pattern repeated more than twice in the whole song. Dj Nitrogen would have something to learn from that, because this song is just bassdrum repetition with a spacey string. Nothing quite musical here. Repetition is the beast of trackers, that strikes when there is no real inspiration left. "Hmmm, I'll just repeat the same thing again and finish this track and go to sleep." (Was that again a quote from Novus? Don't remember anymore...) Sounds familiar? There is no other cure to this thing to just keep your head cool and if there are no ideas, do something else and leave the song alone, and when you have again ideas, return to your computer and continue the song... Oh yes, the technical review... :) Samples are ok, but the drumming is too familiar from so many tunes, a snare or a clap would have done already miracles in this song. Repetition is a beast here too. | |
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Title: nitro8.xm Filename: nitro8.xm |
Posted Sat 2nd Jan 1999
Rated 5 / 10 |
| A club tune again with a dynamic bass and some acids. At the beginning the song sounded the same as nitro9.xm (Ice cold). This song is very repetitive, but somehow it makes you want to dance. That's the magic of house music. :) Not musically anything special, the feeling is more important here. This is a very repetitive song. Dj Nitrogen should make his tracks more complicated, if you get what I mean, and more variation. It seems like composer hasn't been tracking for a long time, but he just should keep on tracking and listen to comments of his songs and try to learn from mistakes. Bonus points here for a good dance feeling :) | |
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Title: nitro9.xm Filename: nitro9.xm |
Posted Sat 2nd Jan 1999
Rated 4 / 10 |
| Very repetitive house track here, imagine, 41 patterns and 7 different. You can see how repetitive this is. Also the melody that is played by two different instruments isn't so good, but that's mostly because of the low quality of these lead samples. Too much repetition! And the synth samples were pretty bad. The track's based on a simple track; it repeats a pattern for a while and then moves to next pattern and repeats it and again and again. It's ofcourse the easy way to track, but you don't get too many fans with this style. | |
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Title: Nixon in China Filename: nixon08.xm |
Posted Sat 2nd Jan 1999
Rated 8 / 10 |
| A very weird name with the song, but The B explained that he had no name for the song and they were working with an opera called "Nixon In China" at school and so he ended up choosing that name... Well, at least it's pretty original. The song itself is very good melodic dance with great piano riffs, nice acids in the background and an effective beat. The long length makes you bored, when the song get's too repetitive. Great samples and excellent work with the melodies and background acids. The song goes on for 7 minutes, and that is just too much. Listening to it for 3-4 minutes is enough, because after that you get pretty bored with the repetition of the same piano melodies. But you don't have to listen it to end, ofcourse. But if you want to dance long, this is a good song to do that. Would be a success in clubs, I think... | |
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Title: Bu Yao Ran Ni Zi Dao Filename: buyrnnzd.mod |
Posted Sat 2nd Jan 1999
Rated 7 / 10 |
| Oh man, what a name!! Well, I guess it has some meaning to it... Anyway, the song is pretty good and I enjoyed listening to it. The melodies were great, though I missed more of the piano that only comes for short whiles in the song, but the flute is just great. Samples are pretty good for a MOD-file. The song has a very good length at 4:23, and you can listen to it trough many times. The song is just beautiful. I just wish I knew what the name means... :) Maybe not a good choice for all of the "techno freaks" out there, but if you enjoy peaceful music like this, just take it!! | |
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Title: Theme From Fort Boyard Filename: nj-boy.it |
Posted Sat 2nd Jan 1999
Rated 6 / 10 |
| Nothing new for N-Joy's composing style, again we have a dance song. This one's pretty good, it has a good string melody leading it and it has good drumming spiced with little kettle drumming. The song is very short and it lasts only for 2:10. If it would have been made longer it would have been a good experience, but the short length just lets you down. Good samples and good melody with a great beat, everything under control here, but the short duration makes the song just another dance song with the masses. Good ideas and great kettle style drumming goes all to a waste here. Maybe someone should remix this song and make it the next big hit in tracked songs ;) | |
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Title: Megawoam-Bada Filename: nj-bada.it |
Posted Sat 2nd Jan 1999
Rated 6 / 10 |
| This is about the same song as the nj-lamb.it, so I'm not going to write the same review again. It's technically the same too...read the nj-lamb.it review if you are interested. | |
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Title: Everlasting Love [dance] Filename: nj-ever.it |
Posted Fri 1st Jan 1999
Rated 7 / 10 |
| A pretty nice dance tune here. The piano melody is great, except for the piano at the middle, before the beginning melody strikes back again. N-Joy could have used more of the piano to make the song sound better. The lead synth is pretty dark sounding for a love song, but it's ok. The ending is pretty weird. Nothing unusual here, the typical N-Joy sample quality. No errors in the beat. Drumming is pretty cool here, and the melody is good. It get's a bit repetitive at some times. If there would have been more piano, the song could have been a lot better. | |
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Title: Funk That Filename: nj-funk.it |
Posted Fri 1st Jan 1999
Rated 6 / 10 |
| The beginning is very bad sounding, and it propably is meant to be like that but after the synth gets going and the great percussion comes in, the song comes very enjoyable. The drumming is great in the whole song with some nice tom's. At the end the song when it drops the tempo to half of the beginning tempo, it sounds a bit boring. Samples are overall good quality. The vocal is a bit overused. As I said, the tom drumming is cool and it's one of the important things in the song. Funny to see that N-Joy has taken the monsterbass sample, which I have seen in some old 4-channel mods. Usually it is a bad choice to rip old mods, but here it doesn't harm the song. | |
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Title: Gonna Make Ya Move Filename: nj-gonna.it |
Posted Fri 1st Jan 1999
Rated 6 / 10 |
| The beginning is pretty good, but when the house synth comes in, the song loses the feeling with the dull melody. Also the synths that come in at 2 minutes are pretty awful. The drumming is good. The second lead synth sample was awful. Otherwise the samples were pretty good. This song doesn't give you any special feelings, while listening to it. There's not much to say of this song, but it could have been a lot better. | |
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Title: Happy Hour Filename: nj-happy.it |
Posted Fri 1st Jan 1999
Rated 7 / 10 |
| The song starts with a nice dancey melody and it keeps going for almost the whole song. There is a pretty weird break in 1:30 which didn't fit right to the song. At almost three minutes it starts to make some excitement and the ending is pretty good. The main melody is repeated a lot, but not too much, for my taste at least. Samples are mostly 8-bit. No technical errors in the song, good work done there. The 70's disco style high strings that are looped for a while in the background, don't fit right into the song. Also the phone ringing sample is pretty strange. | |
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Title: Hellroad Filename: nj-hell.it |
Posted Fri 1st Jan 1999
Rated 5 / 10 |
| Dance with very rough guitars. The guitar melody is too fast in the beginning and it sounds awful all the time. N-Joy should have used some synths with the guitars. This is below average dance song. Nothing wrong with the samples, it's more in the way that the composer has programmed them. The guitar makes the song hard to listen to, and the song is too short. Otherwise than the guitars, the song could have been something. | |
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Title: House Of Energy Filename: nj-house.it |
Posted Fri 1st Jan 1999
Rated 6 / 10 |
| Again a dance song by N-Joy. There are some nice melodies in the song, but some of them were pretty bad, and they didn't sound so good. The beat is good and the song keeps a good pace all the time. The "aaah choirs" give the song a nice touch and make it sound more professional and more interesting. Nothing special in this song overall, just another dance song. Almost all samples are 8-bit, a few 16-bit samples. The song is technically made very well, no big errors, except the lead synth goes in one melody off tune. N-Joy handles the basics of tracking very well. What he needs is a hypnotizing lead melody which is very important in dance songs. | |
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Title: The Journey Filename: nj-jour.it |
Posted Fri 1st Jan 1999
Rated 8 / 10 |
| This is a nice dance song with cool rave synths and a piano filling it. The break where the explosion comes in and woman says "take off" shouldn't of been used twice, one time was enough. This song is above the average dance songs, with it's energic use of synths. The song felt pretty short, but it was varied well. No untuned samples or anything, but the bassdrum sounded a bit weird in the beginning, because it was tuned so low, but you get used to it during the song. The best thing in this song are the synth melodies. | |
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Title: Lambada [euro edit] Filename: nj-lamb.it |
Posted Fri 1st Jan 1999
Rated 6 / 10 |
| A dance remix of the hit song "Lambada". For some who don't remember it, it was quite a hit a few years ago, just like Macarena. Don't remember Macarena? Who does? ;) Anyway... to the point. The song is just the Lambada song with a dance beat and some synths added. For you people who danced Lambada when it was on top, this is very recommended, at least it brings back melodies. The Lambada-melody is fitted well in the dance beat. Some of the samples were pretty bad, like the flutes. The vocal samples in beginning are echoed very strangely. The song starts to get pretty cheesy after while that you have listened to it, with the flute sample making the solo. But it was a pretty funny idea to make a dance remix of this song. | |
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Title: megahertz MEGAmix Filename: nj-mega.it |
Posted Fri 1st Jan 1999
Rated 6 / 10 |
| The start is pretty dull with some vocals and a not so good melody, but at 1:22 it starts a kicking melody which sounded great, but ended too soon.The rest of the song was just usual dance music, nothing special. There is a lot of variation because this is somekind of a megamix, but the melodies are pretty dull. There were many vocals in the song, some of them could have been left out of the song. Otherwise the samples are of pretty good quality. They are all 8-bit, but if they were 16-bit, this song would have been huge, and I don't like downloading some 2MB songs if they're not worth it. | |
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Title: No Good (Start The Dance) Filename: nj-ng.it |
Posted Fri 1st Jan 1999
Rated 6 / 10 |
| This is already the third No Good - remix that I have reviewed here, and I have to say that this isn't the best one. It's almost the same as original version, nothing big added to it, just some beeps in the beginning, which didn't sound so good. Ofcourse this song is good, but if you actually want a No Good - remix, I'd recommend you nogood.s3m, unless you collect them ;) The samples are tuned and pretty good, but the originality points in this song are pretty low. This is propably one of the most remixed songs (like all Robert Miles tunes) in the tracking scene, and if this isn't the best version, why take this when there are more original and better versions of the song. | |
Title: Night Run
Filename: nightrun.xm
Rated 4 / 10