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Title: Sickass Systematic
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Artist: eftexem
Genre: Soundtrack/Game: Game
Reviewed by: Spectra on October 23, 2007 (All reviews by Spectra)

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1Overall Description
Nice...very resilient/chilled out yet curious/overwhelmed mood in this track, in fact the mood is about the coolest thing about the track.
The feeling is much the same as sitting on an undisturbed white sand beach after an apocalyptic meteor slammed into the earth and after 2:40 is trying to figure out how/why on earth it happened.
 
2Creativity Description
The mood is simply one of the freshest things I've ever heard.
A few very pure "sine-ish" sounding instruments seep through each other creating a unique "bubbling" texture to the piece building the feeling I described in #1 with the melodies.
The scattered beats also create this bizarrely cool sense of "overwhelmed peace" as does the towering demo-style melody starting around 0:45. around 2:01 a high resonance snare-type sound gives a mysterious jungle-ish sound to this piece before the abstraction returns to the theme at 3:00.

This sounds in many ways profoundly like something Bjorn Lynne (AKA "awesome") would write, and that is a very good thing.
 
3Artistic License Description
This, in both its smart use of minimalistic arrangement, the mood, and the free-form use of musical keys, is one of those few tracks that approaches the mark of defining a new genre, beyond simply identifying a new musicians "artistic license".
 
4Arrangement Description
Actually more like 3.5...my only major gripe is the pace which moods and sections switch in this piece, which gives it a kind of sleepy, almost sedated feel. Instead of having the intro mood extend all the way to 2:00 where an outro feel comes in I feel there should be some sort of interlude around 1:20...what happens between 2:00 and 3:00 seems a more appropriate mood change pace for the earlier parts of the piece.
 
5Sound Quality Description
This is rare in minimalism...but this manages to sound very full with very few instruments due to spacing over octaves of melodies and smart panning of drums among other niceties...nice work!
 
6Does it work as a piece of music Description
Despite having sick@ss thrown in its title this is one of the most deeply emotional pieces of music I've ever heard and with very little technical flaw to keep this emotion from shining through. Very impressive.
 
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