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Title: Pentagon
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Artist: dj Alces
Genre: Electronica: Techno
Reviewed by: Nyje on March 31, 2008 (All reviews by Nyje)

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1Overall Description
Driving beat with very well tuned progression. Sounds like something in a Carl Cox DJ set.
 
2Creativity Description
Well versed percussion gives a slight swing to the beat that works. Big ups to the 808 cowbell with the scratch effect.
 
3Artistic License Description
This is something worthy of being in record bins of fine retail dance vinyl establishments worldwide.
 
4Arrangement Description
Repetition abounds, but finely progressed with accumulating elements every 8 bars in the intro, a few breathers and a nice swell in the bridging breakdown midsection.
 
5Sound Quality Description
My anal sense of music theory comes into play with the kick drum tuned to A with the rest of the synths and chromatic elements tuned closer to the key of C. Otherwise, the levels on each instrument and percussive element are in perfect harmony and I detect some use of compression that keeps a nice level push in every element in the song.
 
6Does it work as a piece of music Description
This song totally takes me back to Frequency 8; a record store in Seattle specializing in trance and techno. I can't stop thinking of record shopping when I hear this. When I finally discovered that Techno was its own genre of music and not the entire spectrum of electronic dance music, it was understood that lots of Techno sounds like this. Thus, my answer given under artistic license.
 
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