Aquatica (aquatica.s3m)

Posted by warhawk on Fri 1st Feb 2002, rated 9 / 10.

This song starts with ocean sounds. Very calm ocean waves. Then suddenly, some very un-fitting bells and other strange sounds are played randomly. My first thought is, Oh no! This will be something really sick! That was my thought, atleast. Shortly after the sick bells stop, and in comes some nice oldskool style music. It almost makes me think the musician did that bad part on purpose just to make the real song sound better. That is actually quite a nice tactic, but maybe the listener will just turn it off at the time he hears something bad. Umm, well, it worked pretty well. The song itself is quite nice, using sounds like bass, drums, synthpads and some nice "computer-like" (you know, the ones you're not going to find in a normal tune :P) leads. Speaking of leads, the ones in this tune are actually good. They have variation and use different sounds, which is one of the thing that keeps you listening. Actually, all this tune is very varying, it has a lot of different parts which keeps it from getting boring. That is one of the main strenghts of this song, apart from its (at some points) awesome lead. I wanted this song to be longer, because with all the varying parts it could really create an adventure. But ok, it works as it is :) Technically, this song is good too. Maybe the artist doesnt use so many effects, but the way the tune is made is a nice example. When i say it doesnt have effects, i mean tracker effects, because this song sounds really advanced. All in all this is a great demostyle tune which really surprised me after the disapointing "intro" (with the bells). The artist has created a song with much variation and great techniques and awesome leads. My overall impression is that this is a great tune, well worth the download.