Reviews written by thecanary
 | Boîte Diabolique Reviewed: December 21, 2008 Artist: Nyje A dark, yet funky piece of techstep that brings to mind the works of Ed Rush & Optical (see their "Chameleon" album) or the Upbeats. The nineteen forbidden notes don't actually appear in this track- but that's probably because the artist determined that they sounded too light and fluffy for this | Read full review |
 | Phobia - Final, no vocals Reviewed: December 15, 2008 Artist: Din A darkly funky and melodic industrial-tech style affair that breathes with weird energy. This track seethes with multiple layers of sound and nice, crunchy distortion, but manages to avoid sounding too thick or too muddy in the overall mix. The artist's promise of vocals seems almost unnecessary | Read full review |
 | Into the Dark Reviewed: December 15, 2008 Artist: TiLT Excellent production and an engaging, menacing melodic theme make this a piece worthy of an epic Hollywood film. The listener is literally taken into the dark on a heavily percussive orchestral ride. This piece makes its mood clear from the very first note and maintains that atmosphere to its last | Read full review |
 | Echo Reviewed: December 15, 2008 Artist: Output Jack A light, airy tribal-style trance tune with some interesting organic elements and a good high-drama main section. The high points of the tune are its top-notch sound quality and production values. The only drawbacks to the song are a couple of arrangement issues that leave this listener wanting a | Read full review |
 | LÅNE Reviewed: December 15, 2008 Artist: Olof There isn't much to say about this track. It's basically thirty-six seconds of barely melodic noise, with a reversed vocal in the background speaking incomprehensibly in a foreign language that I don't understand anyways. As far as music goes, this doesn't fully qualify- though there is enough | Read full review |
 | The Canary Reviewed: December 09, 2008 Artist: Ceekayed This track is, to reiterate my comment when I first listened to it, an epic masterpiece of drum 'n' bass. It seethes with creepy, stinging synth lines, wicked menacing bass, forceful percussion, dark atmosphere. Everything that a fan of techstep could ever want is here for the taking. Though it | Read full review |
 | Black Hole Experience - Release 1 Reviewed: December 31, 2007 Artist: Encrypted Transmission A nice and dark d'n'b track that takes the listener to some deep and thoughtful places without being too relaxed or too in-your-face about it. This piece strikes a nice balance between dreamy ambient d'n'b and dancefloor madness. I give it a total score of 4 stars, even though my ratings below | Read full review |
 | Grotesque - unfinished...seeking advice, I'm stuck :( Reviewed: November 16, 2007 Artist: Din This is a chunky, strong industrial track through and through, with juuuust the right amount of crunchy distortion to contrast with just the right amount of hi-treble synths. I hear some subtle funk influences in some of the synth work toward the end of the track; makes for an interesting mix. I d | Read full review |
 | Voices of Dark Reviewed: November 04, 2007 Artist: melancolly A good dark ambient piece. The song flows well from beginning to end, maintaining a solid vibe of creepiness and wonder. The glitchy sound effects in the intro make for a very interesting touch- this would work very well as the background for a dark RPG or even a first person shooter video game. | Read full review |
 | Insomnia (Short Chaos Mix) Reviewed: October 29, 2007 Artist: Spectral the Projection A melody-driven trance tune that doesn't really do anything new with the genre... The artist cannot be faulted for a lack of effort- trance has been around for so long and been done by so many people that it's almost impossible to come up with something truly unique that sets one song apart from t | Read full review |
 | Reqibat Reviewed: October 29, 2007 Artist: hientau A richly textured orchestral track with extremely heavy, almost oppresive atmosphere. The magic of this song is in its heaviness- one almost gets a sense of rising up out of quicksand and trying to shake off a great weight, but ultimately failing. | Read full review |
| Nexus 5 Reviewed: October 29, 2007 Artist: Project-X A spacey, trance-like electronic affair that bounces around through several different melodic progressions, but never really seems to get where it's going. While this tune has several redeeming features, such as a lively assortment of synths and some very clever melodic ideas, there are some serio | Read full review |
| unknown Reviewed: October 28, 2007 Artist: Brucifer Great old-school style drum and bass tune with massive, clear bass and clever use of some no-worse-for-the-wear drum loops. The only thing that brings this down from a 5-star track is the fact that there's really no new ground broken; this track covers a lot of familiar territory in the genre of d | Read full review |
 | The Ghost & The Darkness Reviewed: October 13, 2007 Artist: LungButter Overall, this is one of the artist's better tracks. A d'n'b type affair that suffers heavily from an absolutely awful horn sample/synth that gets annoying after the first time it plays. There are some interesting elements going on, but the overall execution of the track comes off very sloppy. | Read full review |
| Flying (Needs Work Long Mix) Reviewed: October 13, 2007 Artist: thekhin A smooth, chill, minimalist, kind of sad electro-ambient style piece from the master of shifting genres. Features some well performed but rather sappy vocals that take a lot of undeserved attention from the music. | Read full review |
 | Edit #4 Reviewed: October 13, 2007 Artist: JBL Aphex Twin on crack without the music theory classes. | Read full review |
| Days dub by Reviewed: October 13, 2007 Artist: grip A spacey, mellow dubstyle breaks tune with some warm melodic hooks that keeps the listener's attention and interest throughout. This track abounds with minor technical flaws, such as panning and EQ issues, but when all is said and done the overall mood of the track comes through clean. | Read full review |
 | A Ballad for my Mind Reviewed: October 13, 2007 Artist: JBL A strange, experimental piece that incorporates elements of trip hop and ambient music, with some good IDM/d'n'b style beatchopping thrown in for good measure. This is by far the most mature and advanced piece I've heard out of this artist to date. The track rolls along with a mellow but dancea | Read full review |
 | Going Gets Rough Reviewed: September 27, 2007 Artist: The Herbal Crew Holy s**T! This is some of the most hardcore, get the f**k up and dance raga jungle that I've ever heard. I can't shower you guys with enough praise for this track- everything is put together perfectly; great vocals, awesome beat-chopping, bass to shake down the foundations. | Read full review |
 | Keep It Gangsta Reviewed: September 27, 2007 Artist: The Herbal Crew Aww f**k yeah- this is like some oldschool dancehall ragga. I could see Shy FX spinning this into a breakdown in one of his sets. Great feel you guys have got going on here. | Read full review |
 | Lo-Pass Filter Diet Reviewed: September 27, 2007 Artist: Nyje This is filtery, funky house at it's best. The song builds up from a simple thump-tss thump-tss intro to some funky madness that makes you want to get out on the dancefloor and dance until your wallet falls out. | Read full review |
 | every breath remix Reviewed: August 21, 2007 Artist: vo0doo_priest I really like this song- despite a couple of minor technical imperfections that aren't really bothersome enough to mean anything, the track retains a solid, dense emotional texture from one end to the other. I don't see the connection to its namesake (which is probably best), but it does echo som | Read full review |
 | Phunkfazer Reviewed: August 16, 2007 Artist: Nyje Dawwww jyeaahh! This is the fattest track ever made in Impulse Tracker. Got some serious funk going on here, Nyje, and the sound quality is far and above the best I've ever heard out of an .IT file. Impressive work. The song artwork kicks ass- dig the fuzzy green couch in the background- quinte | Read full review |
 | La Magie du PedoMagicien Reviewed: August 06, 2007 Artist: JBL The intro to this is great- creepy vocal-ish synth that leads into a hardcore bassdrum... unfortunately, the song never really takes off from there completely. The snares kick in and another creepy sounding background synth comes in, but there seems to be a lot missing here to make this a full song | Read full review |
 | Atmosphere Reviewed: August 05, 2007 Artist: Encrypted Transmission A smooth, dark, liquid piece of laid back d'n'b ambio-funk that sounds like the song Photek forgot to put on his "Form and Function" album. The song rolls along with some elements of trance, old-school hardcore, and ambient music- all mixed together effectively for a very smooth overall feel. Th | Read full review |
 | Cha Clot Reign Reviewed: August 04, 2007 Artist: vanillaxtrax Big ups: ninja beat slicing (!!!). Absolutely f*cking insane mashups of the good old Amen beat. The amount of time that must have gone into crafting just the beat on this song is ridiculous and praiseworthy. I can't stress enough how awesome the drums are in this; it makes everything else truly | Read full review |
 | Absolute Karnage! Reviewed: August 04, 2007 Artist: Encrypted Transmission Sold d'n'b with a crisp, dark intro that sweeps into the main body of the song with precise timing. Screaming lead synths that sound like whales swimming through clouds of vapor on Neptune accompany a twisted central bassline (more on the bassline in a second). In a genre where a lot of the new | Read full review |
 | Casey Sunshine Reviewed: August 01, 2007 Artist: Nyje Totally danceable, solid house music featuring some righteously obscure Casey Kasem samples. The background melody sounds like hi-speed steel drums on Heaven's shore and the afforementioned Kasem samples are used perfectly with the structure of the track. This is a wild display of some serious ar | Read full review |
| Naaaaaattnnnnnn Reviewed: July 25, 2007 Artist: thekhin Glitchcore! I love it! You've created your own genre, and you sound like a guy from a cheap German porno movie. This is a fun little (and I mean little) journey into the world of the weird... inspires me to try my hand at something almost unnacceptably different. | Read full review |
| Nations Reviewed: July 25, 2007 Artist: murdersgalore Sick little death-metal-ish tune with some kick ass vocals (reminds me of the guy from Deicide) and awesome guitar work. The rythm guitar crunches through the whole track and the solos are awesome; I especially like the little Iron Maiden-type double melody touches. The only thing I didn't really | Read full review |
 | sparkles Reviewed: July 25, 2007 Artist: grip Ahh, breakbeats. Nobody makes good breaks anymore. This is a nice, solid and yet airy track that reminds me of the good old days of breaks. Great stuff. | Read full review |
 | RockSteady (Radio Edit) Reviewed: July 25, 2007 Artist: LungButter I hate to really rip a song apart, but I have to do it this time around. This song is thoroughly uninteresting to me... it doesn't work as drum 'n' bass because the drums have almost no presence- there's a snare, but almost no kick drum- and the bassline doesn't really do anything interesting | Read full review |
 | Dark and Smooth Reviewed: July 25, 2007 Artist: thekhin A chilly, smooth, house-style electro-funk piece chock full of cliche tracker synths sweeping in and out with a simplistic melody. The most interesting things in this track are done with the drums and the bassline. | Read full review |
 | Taking the 'L' with Nitrus Reviewed: July 25, 2007 Artist: JBL FAT sounding old-school hardcore-type track. Very straightforward hardtech sounding, this track kind of moves sparingly around through a few variations without doing anything that hasn't been done in the genre before, but it does it at least as well as any of the oldschool raver music ever did. | Read full review |
 | This Song Used to Have a Title that Could Have Been Inappropriate and Slightly Offensive to Christians Reviewed: July 23, 2007 Artist: The Nicaraguan Midget Conglomerate This is a fun little track that sounds to me like the song that Beck never got around to making. Weird, slowed down vocals reciting a *poignant* (if somewhat offensive) message, funky guitars, bass... weird, weird tune... but good somehow. | Read full review |
 | DJ Nutsack is an Awesome Guy - We Really Mean it He is Our Friend (Encrypted Transmission is Pretty Cool Too) Reviewed: July 23, 2007 Artist: The Nicaraguan Midget Conglomerate This song is incoherent at best. I've listened to some of NMC's other tunes and this doesn't stack up by a mile. Okay, it's cool they wanted to do an hommage to another silly artist... but honestly, I suspect that this bunch of midgets is really just DJ Nutsack in disguise. | Read full review |
 | Poney Part 1 (Instajungled Remix) Reviewed: July 23, 2007 Artist: JBL The most mature outing into electronic music that I've heard from JBL. This is the product of a new artist rapidly on the rise. It stumbles in a few places, there are some minor EQ issues running rampant, the vocal samples seem a little out of whack, but there is also a creative vision at work th | Read full review |
| Avant(e) Guard the Gates Reviewed: July 12, 2007 Artist: .clickhere This track is a strange fusion of clashing elements that ultimately works quite well as a piece of music. I imagine that this is something like what you would get if you put a bunch of Tibetan Monks into a studio with Trent Reznor and a sheet of acid. Very intelligent, very experimental; in places | Read full review |
 | Fast Breaks Reviewed: July 12, 2007 Artist: yello73 A dark, spacey, very professionally done old school-style track that sounds like something straight off of Photek's "Form & Function" album. Nice atmospheric synths, bubbling bassline, skittering drums. | Read full review |
 | The Madman Reviewed: July 10, 2007 Artist: sjames A fun and energetic track with refreshingly high sound quality for an Impulse Tracker song. Some of the transitioning from one section to another is a little stilted, little too sudden, but the overall effect of the track is good. | Read full review |
 | Return to Solitude Reviewed: July 10, 2007 Artist: Encrypted Transmission A masterfully crafted easy-going d'n'b track with a very warm, if slightly threatening atmosphere. | Read full review |
 | F****** YOUR MOM Reviewed: July 08, 2007 Artist: DJ Nutsack This is fun, demented ride to the mental institute, complete with some sickly laughter and samples, presumably , of dj nutsack- um- doing things to your mom. Nice! | Read full review |
| Nutsack Loves traxinspace.com Reviewed: July 08, 2007 Artist: DJ Nutsack This song gets 5 stars just for cracking me up and being a tribute to TIS- can't get any better than that. Great work. The music behind the slightly silly vocals is actually really high quality stuff, jazzy-type electro house. | Read full review |
 | i see Reviewed: July 08, 2007 Artist: thekhin Wow- listening to this song is like playing Commodore 64 games in heaven. What would otherwise seem like cheesey chiptune samples are elevated here by the vocals to a divine height. There is an absolutely flawless balance here between the mundane and sublime. The contrast of Henriette's vocals a | Read full review |
| Perpetuus Reviewed: July 08, 2007 Artist: Psy-T I can't really expand upon what the other review says for this track- it's almost flawless for what it is- but it's about 3 minutes too long. There are a lot of slow buildups that are just a little too slow. Other than that, everything here is perfect. | Read full review |
 | Thoughtspring Reviewed: July 08, 2007 Artist: grip The artist's description here is perfect- minimal, ambientstyle house. And though those seem like clashing elements, it works very well in this track. Nice swirling atmospheric pads, a mellow synth melody, some slightly muted drums, and a funky-but-not-in-your-face bassline roll you right in with | Read full review |
 | Peaceful Life (RoflCore Remix).mp3 Reviewed: July 08, 2007 Artist: JBL This is a goofup mix of an original that really isn't all that great; in my own opinion, an extreme parody of this nature is actually an improvement. Having listened to JBL's other tracks though, it is clear that this is not the best demonstration of his considerable skills. | Read full review |
 | Deviously cunning Reviewed: July 08, 2007 Artist: grip A drifty, strangely peaceful electronic endeavor with a WICKED bassline and some seriously fat atmospheric synths. | Read full review |
| Art Of Balance intro Reviewed: July 08, 2007 Artist: thekhin This is a fine little piece that I'd like to see stitched together with "Art of Balance Main" for a more cohesive whole- maybe as a "drop" section to that song, maybe as a means of transitioning into that song. This tune contains some of the elements of "Main", but in a rockin atmosphere somewhat | Read full review |
 | Man Eating Planet - Dead Canary Mix [TiS Exclusive Remix] Reviewed: July 05, 2007 Artist: Encrypted Transmission Sick little d'n'b track some heavy, evil bass synths and a melodic line like something straigt out of the Black Sun Empire. This kicks the s**t out of the original! | Read full review |
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