Reviews written by John Marwin

5 star-gate!
Reviewed: August 25, 2008
Artist: slammy
This is a track which has ultra high production values, great melodic introreflections throughout it's duration and sports a precussional track that would make most IDM artists green with envy. The vocals back this song up in a way that's quite unique and really sets the tone for this truly awesom		Read full review
Synergy of Life and Death
Reviewed: July 18, 2007
Artist: Bakemono
This song has roots in the old 90's hardcore rave scene. However, that genre is merely the embryo of what this song is in terms of genre. It's basically an extremely melodical variant of hardcore trance. Which of course means that it has pieces of trance, hardcore, newstyle and orchestral melodies		Read full review
Mission Orion
Reviewed: July 16, 2007
Artist: Xetrov
This is a fairly normal and standard trance track which features all that a trance track should have. Yet aside from that, it doesn't really have anything tangible that creates an interest in the song in question, so the end result is a song that feels very generic in nature.		Read full review
A Bridged Divide
Reviewed: July 16, 2007
Artist: slammy
This is an epic song with many themes included into a single long stretch of a song, which is both a blessing and a curse sort of. It's not something you throw on at a party to be honest, however it IS one of those songs that you'll probably throw on your playlist in about ten years and STILL like		Read full review
Lost in Vagoo
Reviewed: July 05, 2007
Artist: Gazus Snake
A pretty interesting and variated piece of atmospherical drum and bass which has some minor flaws that prevent it from being perfect. But, it's damned close!		Read full review
Alot of Cowboy fans here (The Anti-Bush tribute)
Reviewed: June 28, 2007
Artist: Wiseman
This is a definite antribute to mr Bush. And even thought the message is clear, the track doesn't really reach the heights it has the potential to reach. It begins well with a few good leads and a nice bassline which is integrated into the drums suitably. However, the problem lies in that it's al		Read full review
BBQPARTY VOL69
Reviewed: June 28, 2007
Artist: kaneel
This is a song which is based on a very disjointed rhytm signature, my prediction is that most people would cringe at it, going "dude, you're way off base here!" but fortunately for the artist, I'm one of those people that like innovative stuff like this. Now, the whole track is littered with perc		Read full review
Insane Choir Guy - 'm0dified'
Reviewed: June 27, 2007
Artist: slammy
This track is filled with alot of melodic and joyous expressions of .. well, madness to put it frankly. The vocals are however the main attraction of this song, and the collaboration between m0d and Slammy works wondrous in this section. Only huge issue with this song is it's duration which limits 		Read full review