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Download: Title: a night without ... Filename: a_night_without.it	Posted Sun 18th Nov 2007 Rated 7 / 10
Another saddish one. This one reminds me slightly of the first part of Ultravox's Vienna. Good samples, well-chosen effects, and good musical variety, except for a couple of patches where the author's ideas seem to be running a bit thin. Overall, 6-8.

Download: Title: beauty beyond the ocean. Filename: aux-dc4b.it	Posted Sun 18th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Mellow trancey/ambient track. Perfectly listenable, but rapidly gets too instrusive for background music while not being interesting enough to listen to and concentrate on it. 4-6. Nice samples though.

Download: Title: ((( florence ))) Filename: audiomonster_-_florence.mod	Posted Sun 18th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
Starts with a mixture of synth and bells(?) then adds a rock guitar. Enters the main melody after about a minute, and, it's OK, but the sample balance is slightly hit and miss in places. There are also several points where it sounds a bit like a tape recording on a wrinkled tape. Disjointed. Some of the background instruments are a bit piercing and intrusive; better samples and slightly changed balance would help a lot. 3 is harsh, but 4 or 5 is too much. It's hard to say how or where this track has gone wrong, but to me the whole track sounds subtly out of kilter. Sorry, audiomonster.

Download: Title: artificially -fix Filename: artificially_-fix.mod	Posted Sun 18th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
A mixture of good and so-so samples on a fast techno piece. Would be better shorter - there's not really enough content for the length, but it's OK. 4, I suppose.

Download: Title: alieni vol.1 Filename: alieni_vol_1.mod	Posted Sun 18th Nov 2007 Rated 8 / 10
Ooh. Spooky and ethereal. Not quite Alien the movie, but certainly a fitting background theme for UFO: Enemy Unknown. Liked the melody, and the distant tortured screams that start about halfway through. 8-9. Another personal favorite.

Download: Title: Darshan AD Filename: ad_darsh.it	Posted Sun 18th Nov 2007 Rated 9 / 10
Starts out a very stylish asian-vocal piece. Then adds a thrashy drumbeat, which then gets overlaid with the vocals. Another 8-9. It's still rather too musically repetitive to earn a 10 (the exact same patterns are getting reused a lot throughout), but it's the first piece in a while where I've even seriously considered the possibility. Definitely one of my personal favorites.

Download: Title: action-1(s1) Filename: action.mod	Posted Sun 18th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
A couple of the samples at the start sound like people beating pots and pans in the kitchen :-) After that, the tune turns into an acceptable-quality action-style synth piece. 4-5. It's OK. Lurches a bit when it loops though.

Download: Title: This Is Home Filename: a-tih.it	Posted Sun 18th Nov 2007 Rated 9 / 10
Really nice syncopated rhythm gradually builds up into a first-rate synth/techno piece. Slightly sad tone, and a bit of a trancey feel to it. Hard to see how it could be improved on. The outro is worth specifically highlighting; the melody fades first, then the drums are replaced with snares and then they fade out in turn. so rather than just turning the volume down in steps, louder instruments are replaced with gradually quieter ones to get much the same effect. Excellent. Easily an 8-9.

Download: Title: 1234..rock!! Filename: 1234_rock.mod	Posted Sun 18th Nov 2007 Rated 6 / 10
Very well-executed synth pop piece. Not rock. A shade on the long side, in my view, but there is new stuff going on all the time. Just goes to show what you can do in four tracks. 6-8

Download: Title: 120 Filename: 120.it	Posted Sun 18th Nov 2007 Rated 6 / 10
The audio crackle sample (like listening to an old LP) is an excellent touch. Quite a nice melancholy drum/orchestral/spacey synth piece. Unusual, creative, good samples used effectively. Lacks variety; like many pieces, it would be a lot better if the same content had been used for a 5-minute piece rather than stretched to 6m20. Still, it's certainly above average; 6-8 overall.

Download: Title: ThE WeiRD BEaTz Filename: weird.it	Posted Tue 13th Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
Repetitive rather than weird. 2.

Download: Title: tridence Filename: tridence.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
Fast-paced techno with a 'terminate' voice sample repeated over and over. No discernible melody. 2-3.

Download: Title: Zelda / Koji Kondo Filename: traven-zelda.xm	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
Another game rip, by the sound of it. Sounds very eight-bit, but probably triggers happy gaming memories for a lot of listeners. 3.

Download: Title: Trapped (Outro) Filename: trapped_outro.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Sounds like it was ripped from a game. Echoey and with a bit of menace to it. Not bad. 4.

Download: Title: the player housemix Filename: the_player_housemix.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
Naff rips of some Madness voice samples onto a pretty naff tracker mod. The melody reminded me a bit of Weird Al Yankovic taking the mickey out of Like a Virgin. Overall, poor. Embarrassing to listen to, frankly.

Download: Title: ThE oLd iS NeW Filename: the_old_is_new.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
Another 4-track mod with some very eight-bitty samples. Not quite sure what the point of the voice sample is. Liked the background melody (and the vehicle zooms), but it's overpowered by the constant unremitting bass thumps. Poor sound balance and a rather naff voice sample make it barely listenable for me. 2-3.

Download: Title: ## syntune ## Filename: syntune.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
Rapido chipstyle piece. Nothing special. 3.

Download: Title: - stoopid party - Filename: stoopid1.xm	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
Don't know what to make of this one. Largely unintelligible voice samples. Not much of a tune. Nothing discernibly interesting about it. Not worth the large download, I'd say. 2-3.

Download: Title: rozkraczona Filename: rozkraczona.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
A mix of some very eight-bit-sounding samples and some somewhat better ones. Not very good balance between them. Makes the tune a bit of a mixed bag. Too random to be pleasant to listen to in my view, especially as some of the samples are rather piercing. 2.

Download: Title: praelud1.xm Filename: praelud1.xm	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Short piano rendition which sounds like it's based on a classical piece. ([Reads sample text.] Aha. Bach. Yes.) The snaredrum is an ill-advised addition, I must say. Quite nice piano samples. Mostly a bit of tracker practice for somebody, I'd guess. 4

Download: Title: pop-shit Filename: pop_shit.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Not usually a good sign to have a tune with 'stupid', 'shit' or variations thereon in its name, but this one isn't a bad pop/rock track. It isn't great, though. 4.

Download: Title: "Playin wit'Breakz" Filename: playin_witbreakz.xm	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
Oh god, another slow, repetitive one that takes ages to get started. A good minute and thirty seconds of content skilfully stretched into 5m30 of 'music'. After hearing a few dozen of these, you start feeling a score of three is being way too generous. So, as this one got started just as it was fading out(!), I'll give it a 2. And there's a volume error in the loop as well.

Download: Title: Piramid of Magic Filename: piramid.it	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
This strikes me as a bit of StarGate-themed fan music. Rather a demo-style track, just the right music to play while showing a cheesy montage of clips from the show. No? Maybe it's just me then. Still, it's worth something in the 3-5 range.

Download: Title: pensamientos Filename: pensamientos.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
That's Greek for 'Five mints', isn't it? No matter; it's another cookie-cutter tracker piece, this one with a guy with a cool voice repeating this sample at intervals. Well, it's listenable. 3.

Download: Title: PARANSKA UKOLEBAVKA Filename: paranska_ukolebavka.s3m	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
A tracker composer from Minsk Wrote a tracker to make people thinksk With the drone of a Pathan ... And is that a Martian? A pity the poetry stinsks. 2

Download: Title: never_stop_me Filename: never_stop_me.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
31-second chip track. Loops nicely, but I can't really bring myself to care. 3. Just.

Download: Title: (AH) My Brian Filename: my_brian.xm	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
What is that horrible 'thump' sample supposed to be?? A drum of some kind? Do us poor reviewers a favour, if that's the best drum sample you've got on your HD, for God's sake replace it with something melodic, like fingernails scraping down a blackboard. I'm not just addressing this 'artist'; I keep hearing that same hideous sample; it really should have gone out with the Atari, if not the ZX Spectrum. 2. Hate to be cruel to a first song, but samples as poor as that drum will ruin anything.

Download: Title: "My Blue Sky" Filename: my_blue_sky_96.s3m	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Rather slow to get going, doesn't do much when it gets there. But at least it does /something/. A grudging 4.

Download: Title: loader0 Filename: loader0.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
For a 40-second 50k loader module, this is not bad. Wonder what it would be like made into a whole track. 3.

Download: Title: Finished Pack Filename: lib-ohc6.xm	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
I liked the samples, but as is often the case this song takes too long to get going and does too little even after it has (finally) gotten started. If it had sounded at 20-30 seconds like it does at 1m 30 (just before it begins to wind down!), (and assuming that having reached that level of creativity it manages to sustain it) it could have got a 7 or higher. As is, 3-4.

Download: Title: Freedom Filename: kzr029.it	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
A relatively mellow symphony on the theme of Clank clank clank-clank whistle, repeat. For an industrial piece it's surprisingly quiet and restful. Still, 2-3.

Download: Title: jumping jack'son Filename: jumpingjackson.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
The roars of applause that this track thoughtfully sees fit to incorporate into itself are far far from what it would actually receive. Still, I suppose waves of boredom are quite hard to sample. Dull, repetitive. 3. Give it some credit for ticking all the 'rock performance' cliche boxes though.

Download: Title: jump 4 joy (now!) Filename: jump_4_joy_now.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
Takes a minute to get going. Passable, but nothing much special going on. 3-4.

Download: Title: Job 73 - Bolleke Filename: job_73_-_bolleke.s3m	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Hey, wow, I downloaded some of the other job-xx pieces off Sunsite years ago. Funny to see them show up here too. This one starts out rather disjointed, but becomes quite cool after the 60-second mark. Builds up nicely. That is, new stuff appears gradually every few seconds rather than there being an interminable wait while one motif is repeated over and over. A lot of mod-artists could take a few tips from a track like this one. It's still pretty simple, and unfortunately it peters out rather than actually making anything on top of the buildup, but, oh well. 4.

Download: Title: Joyboom For Life Filename: je_joybm.xm	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
OK-ish synth rock piece. Liked the ethereal harmonica solo at about 1m30 - in fact I'd love to hear that expanded into an entire piece. 3-4

Download: Title: Hypnotic Failure Filename: hypnotic_failure.xm	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
This one just went on forever. It felt like one idea stretched to seven minutes. Actually, maybe it /could/ be used to hypnotise people, and the title is a cunning piece of irony on the part of the artist. Better samples than many mods, and I suppose if you just want some mellow background noise it would be OK. But listening to it, waiting to see if it would actually /do/ anything, was tedious. 4

Download: Title: Hooreur !!! Filename: hoorreur.xm	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 2 / 10
Another overly repetitive mod. This one with an attempted horror theme. I found it more boring than anything else. Again, nothing actively /wrong/ with it, just no discernible creative spark. 2-3.

Download: Title: GryFunk_is_Da_Vox Filename: gryfunk_is_da_vox.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Fast and frenetic, competently done, but not any great musical merit. Drum samples also a bit too loud in my view. Artist deserves a kudo for the slow-down section in the outro - that was a nice touch definitely worthy of being singled out. 4.

Download: Title: g.m.psatur.xm Filename: g.m.psatur.xm	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 4 / 10
Unusual mod; starts as rather a bland piece, overly repetitive in my view, as is the case for a lot of trackers, but then at two minutes a completely different song starts. Then the two musical threads gradually start to 'merge' again. A clever idea I'd like to see done better with some more creative tunes. 4.

Download: Title: funky drive Filename: funky_drive.mod	Posted Mon 12th Nov 2007 Rated 3 / 10
Quite funky. Slightly stretched from the optimum length - if the song was 30 seconds shorter that would have helped its score by a point or two. Also a bit on the quiet side. Voice sample is better than many I've heard recently, and fits the song OK, but is still slightly overused. Three repetitions rather than five would have been better. As it is you get plenty of time to realise that each repetition is /exactly/ the same as the last, which always bugs me a bit. 3-4.