distant fantasies (dcm-difa.xm)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Sun 2nd Oct 2005, rated 8 / 10.

The track starts with a little funk then breaks down into a real attention-grabbing ambient theme, followed by a simple main melody and dance beat. Though the song takes about a minute to get itself warmed up, when it does; however, it keeps the listener tuned in with its good-mood verses and follow-up breaks. Not quite a roller-coaster ride of a song, but it's nice and smooth, it goes in a warmup, cooldown, warmup, cooldown pattern, while new material is constantly added to keep the song fresh. Alright, now the issue I seem to have with this tune: even though it's about four minutes long, it *feels* short, like some extra parts are missing. Perhaps the artist didn't quite do enough to variate melody or give the tune a big finish which I felt the track needed in order to be complete, but really that's it. Very nice tune overall. Whew, this tune looks and even sounds complex, using up to 32 channels and flooding most of them with effects that still leave me questioning how the artist put this work of art together lol. It's simply amazing that how such a simple melody could be used over and over while adding stuff to it and still make it so interesting to hear. The samples were excellent, a few rips so it seems, but no matter. Again, the only gripe I would have would be the closing structure of the tune; the two patterns of closure at the end I thought was a good idea, but the matter is what goes on before it closes, kinda difficult to explain... okay I can't, so I shall close by saying good work. :)