crysalide.xm (crysalide.xm)

Posted by christofori on Mon 28th Jul 2003, rated 7 / 10.

This is a slightly eerie tune that's got some great things going for it. Many of the samples sound great; there are some pops here and there (which I believe sound like bad loop points.. we'll see when I look at the technical stuff in a moment). There's a good use of dynamic effect; great work there. There really should be more stereo stuff going on; it'd add quite a lot more to the overall effect of the tune. The real interesting thing with this one is that it's actually two tunes in one; the first is more mellow, whereas the second section's got a bit more of a shuffle to it. Quite a good contrast between the two. Technically, the tracking looks good. It's pretty minimalistic; and it's the first one in a while I've seen that uses 256 rows.. which isn't a bad thing, but it's odd or uncommon, at any rate. The samples sound great, for the most part. There are several really good ones. And yes, some of them have bad loop points; some, however, have great ones. The volume/panning envelopes are also good, and well used in many cases. Overall, this tune's great for a kind of chilling ambient tune.