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Title: 3 Founders Filename: 3founder.xm |
Posted Thu 7th Mar 2002
Rated 7 / 10 |
| Very nice for a one sample 20Kb song! Composer used 14 patterns and all of them are different. This music creates an unique atmosphere, it's like... inn music in old sierra adventure games. This tune is for background, I guess, but anyway, it's never late to admire a good one sample song. I guess I cannot say much here, composer used only one 8-bit chip-sample, and created 14 different patterns. No panning is used though, but I guess that is acceptable for a chiptune. Worth listening if you like fantasy. | |
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Title: solace of ancients Filename: ancients.xm |
Posted Thu 29th Nov 2001
Rated 8 / 10 |
| This is a one hour compo song, so I'll take it into consideration when judjing it :-) The song is quite melodical and... what an ending! I imagine some flight through centuries of Inca... Some serious dance. The melody is quite simple, but deep. It makes me dance :-) I like the use of portamentoes! That sounds professional. This song uses old demostyle synths, and they set the proper mood perfectly, especially the lead synth... We're talking about a good oldstyle mod here, and it worth downloading. | |
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Title: asbsolo.xm Filename: asbsolo.xm |
Posted Fri 23rd Nov 2001
Rated 5 / 10 |
| It's an old (1994) and rather repetitive song... Well, maybe this one can make you move, but only if you like the combination of a distorted guitar and fast beats... Very repetitive and simple tune. This is a 1994 year song. As I've said before, it's very simple. 10 8-bit samples, 10 channels... But that is not the point... Sample set is rather nice for 94. I think you'll like this tune if you like old hard mods. | |
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Title: Fijian Moon Filename: fijianmn.xm |
Posted Thu 19th Jul 2001
Rated 9 / 10 |
| Wow! These are very catchy melodies! After listening to this song I consider Fijian Moon very beautiful :) Very nice. I prefer orchestral songs, but this techno-song did it! This house-bass, those kicks & the melody are filled with energy! Professional song. Fijian Moon... Definitely worth download. 16 channels / 23 samples and such a melody. Each sample is very good tuned, so the song is THAT wonderful. I've made many reviews for now, and in each song I saw disbalanced volumes, here - no disbalance. Fine bass, fine kicks, fine strings with a smooth fades. And only 350 Kb! Terrific! Wonderful set of samples + catchy tunes = nice techno song. Download it now, you won't regret. | |
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Title: Looping Medieval Melody Filename: mediev.s3m |
Posted Thu 19th Jul 2001
Rated 5 / 10 |
| Tunes are simple, but too much effects are used for the medieval tunes and they are not approriate. Some times melodies don't fit each other. Sometimes melody is incorrect. Technically all is better. Samples come together good way, interesting drum samples are used. Effects are used, no suitable for a medieval tune, but used semi-professionally, for example, vibrato depth is too big. I like the panning, it is very nice. | |
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Title: Atlantic Trance I Filename: a-tlantic1.xm |
Posted Thu 19th Jul 2001
Rated 6 / 10 |
| Tunes in this module are too simple, and only drums and percussion are varied enough. But this song is close to professional, melodies come together nice way. For a good trance composition, this track lacks some 'drive', or.. some ambient elements and softer kicks. Good anyway. Well, technically all is close to perfect. Samples are nice, 8-bit (only one 16-bit), 10 channels. Samples blend together nice. Actually, I'm not a trance fan, and can be objective. Overall, 6.5 . | |
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Title: soft brilliance Filename: cd_softb.mod |
Posted Thu 19th Jul 2001
Rated 7 / 10 |
| Music is very strange in this mod, many effects are used to make the the leads sound more beautiful. This is a very trancey song, demostylish. Drums are break-styleand come together with the lead instruments nice way. In general, this song is a bit tragic, reminds me 80's culture. I like it. Worth downloading! In general good, but some samples are not worked on enough, although the use of a vibrato and other effects is approriate. One sample is sometimes used for 2 of more octaves, so the quality and perception of a song suffers. Only 4 channels used, but I still like it. | |
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Title: cats-eye Filename: catseye.mod |
Posted Thu 19th Jul 2001
Rated 7 / 10 |
| Very nice, endless tune, I'll say it's a swing and blues together, techno influensed, possibly one-hour compo. Could be used for a game or something like that. Main tune is simple, powerful, has a good ending. For such a jenre samples suite each other well. Instruments are well-done, but volumes are not tuned very fine, it messes this song a bit. This mod is 4-channel and uses only 6 samples. Mostly I like the basses, which are made close to professional. | |
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Title: capricornmix Filename: capricor.mod |
Posted Thu 19th Jul 2001
Rated 7 / 10 |
| I like it! The beginning is not very good, but the whole song is good enough, sometimes it even sounds more then 4 channel mod. Tunes are short, but nice. Catchy rhythms. Whole module is a bit repetitive, but if I consider it as game/techno, that is of little importance. I'd listen to it a few times. Technicaly this song is ok, not more. Kick is too sharp&loud, imho. Many instruments are not tuned correctly, author did not use the volumes variation. The sample set is fine, except of drums, which are either not chosen or not tuned to suit each other. No smothness, but ok anyway | |
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Title: cascade Filename: cascade.mod |
Posted Thu 19th Jul 2001
Rated 6 / 10 |
| Music is a bit demostylish, author uses only 4 channels. This tune is a very 80-s like, a bit of techno, game...and ... disco? Maybe. Module repeats itself too much. Tunes are good enough, although the drum parts between them are too sharp. Tune size is only 57 kb, and it used only 4 channels. Use of a channels is good enough. Snare drum is too loud and it messes the whole song, I'd advise to lower it to ~30. In general, the quality of this song and it's size seem to be approriate. | |
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Title: Carpet Crawlers Filename: carpetcr.mod |
Posted Thu 19th Jul 2001
Rated 5 / 10 |
| It starts as a chiptune, the beginning is rather good (here I rate music, not volume&instruments). Music is very hmm... speedy for the rhythm, but some patterns sound good. But the main thing is: music is overloaded with instruments of same pitch. Average anyway. The technics of a song is the worst part of all. Many instruments are note tuned correctly. Lead instrument is too quiet to be the lead one. Background is too loud (those chip samples are difficult to tune). But it's ok, average. | |
Title: Flying Together
Filename: flying.it
Rated 8 / 10