Trade Winds (wind.s3m)

Posted by m0d on Tue 15th Dec 1998, rated 6 / 10.

A synth tune again, with a mellow and jumpy piano melody. The Chord section is nothing wonderful, but backs the melody sequences well. As the tune progresses futher, new instruments take over the main melody and futher texturing is added. In some places there are 3 independant melodies playing, it can get confusing deciding which one to follow. The chord sequence gets a little repetative towards the end, but a good mix of new ideas on the melody draw your attention away from this (i am imune though hehe) Its not very long, and has a rather poor ending. I mean that by reducing speed until it stops is a really boring way to finish a tune. Overall: If there was more work put into the chordal progressions rather than so much in the texturing of the melody, it would have balanced it well. Also the ending would have been nicer with an "outro", similar to an "intro" but going out rather than comming in. Not a great use of tracking ability, but a simplistic approch as also nice. Sample quality is good, with a good selection of instruments and the percussion is also reasonable. Overall: Nothing technically astouding to talk about, but its a nice simple mod tune with good ideas incorporated for spreading the melody over three instuments. If the artist of this mod gets to know the tracking software a little more, greater things can be accomplished and could possibly give the artist some good future potential for writing cool mod tunes.