Reviewer Profile For thecanary


Reviews completed by thecanary
Black Hole Experience - Release 1 by Encrypted TransmissionReviewed: December 31, 2007
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...
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Grotesque - unfinished...seeking advice, I'm stuck :( by DinReviewed: November 16, 2007
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 ...
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Part-3 by AlizhenReviewed: November 16, 2007
A mellow and grooving hip-hop track feautiring strong Japanese influences. The instrumentation and sound quality of this track is absolutely superb from start to finish. It quickly establishes a chi...
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Voices of Dark by melancollyReviewed: November 04, 2007
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- thi...
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Insomnia (Short Chaos Mix) by Spectral the ProjectionReviewed: October 29, 2007
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 ...
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Reqibat by hientauReviewed: October 29, 2007
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 s...
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Nexus 5 by Project-XReviewed: October 29, 2007
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 featu...
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WhoZ Gonna Take It by AlizhenReviewed: October 29, 2007
A light-hearted and fun little journey into highspeed hip-hop; great breakdancing and general party music. The tune is driven from begining to end by a very danceable beat that stays solid the whole ...
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unknown by BruciferReviewed: October 28, 2007
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 t...
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The Ghost & The Darkness by LungButterReviewed: October 13, 2007
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 so...
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Flying (Needs Work Long Mix) by thekhinReviewed: October 13, 2007
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 f...
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Edit #4 by JBLReviewed: October 13, 2007
Aphex Twin on crack without the music theory classes....
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Days dub by by gripReviewed: October 13, 2007
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 i...
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A Ballad for my Mind by JBLReviewed: October 13, 2007
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 adva...
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Going Gets Rough by The Herbal CrewReviewed: September 27, 2007
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 perfec...
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Keep It Gangsta by The Herbal CrewReviewed: September 27, 2007
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....
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Lo-Pass Filter Diet by NyjeReviewed: September 27, 2007
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 walle...
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conduit transparency by dj ioReviewed: September 27, 2007
An uplifting, jazzy piece with some nice, frenetic drum work and strong overall feel. The only reason a fifth star is missing here is a small sound quality issue that nagged at me through each listen...
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every breath remix by vo0doo_priestReviewed: August 21, 2007
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...
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Phunkfazer by NyjeReviewed: August 16, 2007
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....
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La Magie du PedoMagicien by JBLReviewed: August 06, 2007
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 s...
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Atmosphere by Encrypted TransmissionReviewed: August 05, 2007
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-scho...
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Cha Clot Reign by vanillaxtraxReviewed: August 04, 2007
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 prai...
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Absolute Karnage! by Encrypted TransmissionReviewed: August 04, 2007
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 ...
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Casey Sunshine by NyjeReviewed: August 01, 2007
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 sam...
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Naaaaaattnnnnnn by thekhinReviewed: July 25, 2007
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... inspi...
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Nations by murdersgaloreReviewed: July 25, 2007
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...
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sparkles by gripReviewed: July 25, 2007
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....
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RockSteady (Radio Edit) by LungButterReviewed: July 25, 2007
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- th...
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Dark and Smooth by thekhinReviewed: July 25, 2007
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 an...
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Taking the 'L' with Nitrus by JBLReviewed: July 25, 2007
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...
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This Song Used to Have a Title that Could Have Been Inappropriate and Slightly Offensive to Christians by The Nicaraguan Midget ConglomerateReviewed: July 23, 2007
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....
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DJ Nutsack is an Awesome Guy - We Really Mean it He is Our Friend (Encrypted Transmission is Pretty Cool Too) by The Nicaraguan Midget ConglomerateReviewed: July 23, 2007
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,...
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Poney Part 1 (Instajungled Remix) by JBLReviewed: July 23, 2007
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 ra...
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Avant(e) Guard the Gates by .clickhereReviewed: July 12, 2007
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 ...
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Fast Breaks by yello73Reviewed: July 12, 2007
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 dru...
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The Madman by sjamesReviewed: July 10, 2007
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 overa...
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Return to Solitude by Encrypted TransmissionReviewed: July 10, 2007
A masterfully crafted easy-going d'n'b track with a very warm, if slightly threatening atmosphere....
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F****** YOUR MOM by DJ NutsackReviewed: July 08, 2007
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!...
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Nutsack Loves traxinspace.com by DJ NutsackReviewed: July 08, 2007
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 stuf...
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i see by thekhinReviewed: July 08, 2007
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 abso...
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Perpetuus by Psy-TReviewed: July 08, 2007
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 t...
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Thoughtspring by gripReviewed: July 08, 2007
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 ...
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Peaceful Life (RoflCore Remix).mp3 by JBLReviewed: July 08, 2007
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 ...
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Deviously cunning by gripReviewed: July 08, 2007
A drifty, strangely peaceful electronic endeavor with a WICKED bassline and some seriously fat atmospheric synths....
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Art Of Balance intro by thekhinReviewed: July 08, 2007
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 ...
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Man Eating Planet - Dead Canary Mix [TiS Exclusive Remix] by Encrypted TransmissionReviewed: July 05, 2007
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!...
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kronik veda rok 2 by thekhinReviewed: July 05, 2007
Holy crap! This is pure genius! I've never heard anything like this before, though it hearkens back a little bit to the early days of electronic music (and I'm talking early like 1950s & 60s, when a...
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Floating equilibrium by QumranReviewed: July 05, 2007
A fine little ambient track with a number of experimental sounding elements thrown in for a very creative overall sound. This is, in my opinion, some of Qumran's finest work....
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Man Eating Planet 2006 by Encrypted TransmissionReviewed: July 05, 2007
I'm not sure what to call this song, but I have to be completely honest- I don't like it. It's certainly not trance and doesn't rightly fit anywhere else; it's almost like super slow happy hardcore i...
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Spring by QumranReviewed: July 05, 2007
An ultimately un-exciting outing into breakbeat/experimental featuring a poorly chosen main bass synth and some very old-school-keyboard-sounding samples....
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..And the winner is by thekhinReviewed: July 05, 2007
This is trance as interpreted by a man whose drive in music is clearly more toward the ryhtmic. What this lacks in complex melody, it makes up for in a lot of the nice trickery being done with the pe...
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Blackest of Black by Encrypted TransmissionReviewed: July 05, 2007
Great, solid, sci-fi sounding d'n'b track with some trance-like elements flowing throughout....
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Blind Faith by murdersgaloreReviewed: July 04, 2007
RAWWWWK!!!! This tune is f**king kick to the head. Sick, slow grinding intro, bad ass drumming, nice thick guitars, vocals like something straight out of Deicide. Death metal at its finest....
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Ca Donne Toujours Craquette by JBLReviewed: July 04, 2007
A remix of the aritst's own original work; the basic elements of the original are retained in this piece, but each section is expanded upon with some extra breaks/stops, a little more fullness to som...
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Message From Beyond: We Exist by roncliReviewed: July 02, 2007
A spacy trance-esque song with fair overall sound quality and solid production values that suffers from some dubious sample choices and gets a little cheesy in places....
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1st Wave - Twisted Transmission Mix by Encrypted TransmissionReviewed: July 02, 2007
As the artist says, this is drum and bass with an industrial feel. I'm not familiar with the original track, so I can't comment on how good of a remix it is, but it is overall a fairly solid track....
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Ca Donne Craquette by JBLReviewed: July 02, 2007
A strange, short, breakneck-speed electronica piece with some elements of drum 'n' bass. Very experimental sound going on here....
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Follow Me by VegaReviewed: July 02, 2007
Dangerously high quality chillout music. This track has a strong atmosphere of mellow, with some beautiful melodic themes expanded upon throughout. All the samples/instruments are spaced and tuned p...
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Darshana by XetrovReviewed: July 02, 2007
A fantastic, spacy little psytrance-esque tune with good breakdowns and a solid melody....
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Alternative Dance Music by CeekayedReviewed: July 02, 2007
A strange, floating track featuring powerful synths, distorted percussion, and pizzicato strings that gives the listener the impression of distance and space....
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Piss Off!! by thekhinReviewed: July 02, 2007
A raucous, in your face noisecore track capitalizing on psychotic distortion and absolute chaos....
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Stoned Again - 2005 Mix by Encrypted TransmissionReviewed: July 01, 2007
A great little d'n'b tune very reminiscent of the old, old days when they still called it "hardcore." Fat, rippling bassline, interesting vocal stabs, boom chicka chicka drums, dark-ish atmosphere; al...
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Snow White by thekhinReviewed: July 01, 2007
The Khin strikes again with another departure from his usual genre... well, actually, the guy doesn't have a usual genre- he does it all. This time we have what sounds to me like some seriously high ...
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Holy Wood by aGpReviewed: July 01, 2007
A+ for effort. It's good to see that there are people out there actually still using tracker programs. I remember the mid-era days of the tracker revolution very fondly. There are a lot of overall ...
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Hello sweet sleep by QumranReviewed: July 01, 2007
A great ambient style piece all around with some nice flowing saw-wave synths and smooth percussion....
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Don't Look Back by VOiDReviewed: June 30, 2007
A smooth little bluesy rock number featuring bass, drums, guitar, and some electric piano work....
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A New Vision (vocal edit feat. Henriette) by sonusReviewed: June 30, 2007
This track is a dynamic forray into the world of trip hop- fat, thumpy drums, soothing bass, nice spacey atmospherics, dreamy gorgeous vocals. Who could want more?...
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Rezo y Disparo - Praying and Shooting by LikuidReviewed: June 30, 2007
I'm not deeply impressed by anything here- an ambient type affair with nice atmosphere and some good ideas that don't really have to time to go anywhere....
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Red Ashes by Gazus SnakeReviewed: June 30, 2007
A great forray into the world of progressive metal. The hand of Pink Floyd and Tool are definitely in this one....
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Lain by QumranReviewed: June 30, 2007
A somewhat simplistic ambient track with an assortment of pads and percussion that I remember as being a little overused in the old days, though they are ressurected here with a rather higher aestheti...
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Daddy Pulled My Tooth Out by DuskWireReviewed: June 30, 2007
Good intro- I understand the picture of the ducks now. Is that a shamisen being played or a koto or something else? The overall feel here is somewhat like Beck at his weirdest. Menacing beauty, bea...
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Thinking by thekhinReviewed: June 30, 2007
Wow. I've reviewed a lot of the khin's tracks and I am endlessly amazed by the diversity of his talent. This is a summery, pop-ish sounding song with some absolutely beautiful vocals (you let go of ...
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Arilou - Welcome to Falayalaralfali by TiLTReviewed: June 30, 2007
The first 24 seconds of this song are breathtakingly gorgeous. This has a somewhat sad sound to me- very moving and deep. At 0:24 a horn synth comes in that quite frankly I thought just didn't fit a...
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Unexpected Visitor by soloReviewed: June 30, 2007
A strange and unclassifiable song that shifts midway from a warm, sci-fi atmosphere to a dark and brooding sci-fi atmosphere. I liked everything from 2:38 on much more than I liked the intro. The in...
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First Contact by TiLTReviewed: June 30, 2007
I love the little panned synth intro to this track- very slick production there and all around. I don't know if I'd call the general mood of the track "happy"- it's actually rather dark in places wit...
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Hello Morning by DuskWireReviewed: June 30, 2007
The artist seems to be a little too harsh on himself- this sounds to me like anything but a "basic dubtronica" track. There is a great deal of talent rolling through this piece. The intro is a nice ...
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Dreamscape (R.E.M. Mix) by mysteriumReviewed: June 30, 2007
This track bounces along with a very spare melody and some easy-going tribal style drum loops. It sounds slightly incomplete to me; it seems to be missing a certain warmth of atmosphere- could do wit...
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Mr. Penis by JBLReviewed: June 29, 2007
A fine little experimental sounding triphop song....
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Art Of Balance main by thekhinReviewed: June 29, 2007
A downtempo ambient style piece with some nice synth lines and strange atmospheric breathing sounds....
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Unicorn by ParaphrazorReviewed: June 28, 2007
A very energetic, epic sounding trance song with beautifully spaced synths and perfectly EQd drums....
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Nagarjoena by XetrovReviewed: June 28, 2007
I am deeply impressed by anyone who can get this quality of sound out of MP Tracker. I used to mess about with that program back in the day and could never come up with anything this sweet....
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Robot Computer by thekhinReviewed: June 28, 2007
This is almost completely composed of the artist's voice (as far as I can tell)- and well worth listening to over and over for the goofiness of that alone ;)...
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Solar Flares by soloReviewed: June 28, 2007
Good track; could be used as the soundtrack for the afforementioned documentary on solar flares....
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63 Remix (Extended Version) by GlacierReviewed: June 28, 2007
Good oldstyle hard-techk track. It's got a nice, bouncy, danceable feel throughout it. Some of the flaws of trackerhood show through, but hey- it's still good stuff....
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Lucid Dreams by TiLTReviewed: June 27, 2007
Beautiful piece of music. Very skillful piece of melodic style trance...
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Alot of Cowboy fans here (The Anti-Bush tribute) by WisemanReviewed: June 27, 2007
I like the message behind the song... everyone needs to really know what a jack*ss Bush is. The music flows nicely and the vocal samples are well placed. I enjoyed the contrast of soothing music and...
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Chromosphere by ParaphrazorReviewed: June 27, 2007
Freakin' epic! A wonderful piece of work. This is homemade trance at its absolute finest. Great progression, beautiful work on the EQ and spacing- the whole track breathes with vitality and skill....
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Mirando Fotos by LikuidReviewed: June 27, 2007
A very beautiful and ambient style song. Very well done. It does have a kind of soundtrack sound to it- you could imagine this playing over a scene where the main characters are depicted as sort of ...
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Happy Day by reeReviewed: June 27, 2007
Another beautiful forray into chip tune land! This one put a big smile on my face, very good happy silly vibe to it. Thanks!...
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Craziness by martyfmelbReviewed: June 27, 2007
For being made in Fast Tracker 2, this is a fine piece of music....
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Conquer by martyfmelbReviewed: June 27, 2007
Overall, there are some very good elements at work here. It's a decent attempt at epic trance, and though it could use some serious reworking on certain elements, the artist has definitely capture th...
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Bend The Space by reeReviewed: June 27, 2007
Holy crap! I haven't heard a chiptune in AGES! This was a lot of fun; takes me back to the old ScreamTracker days. Thanks for the smile on my face, mate!...
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Kerosene Draft by nexxyzReviewed: June 27, 2007
This is acid jazz if I ever heard it- very well crafted despite a slightly tracker-ish feel to things. The drums are well spaced and the rhythm moves well. The main synth sounds a little old school ...
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Area25 by Psy-TReviewed: June 27, 2007
Definitely a reccomendable track for fans of Detroit techno (or any other techno for that matter). The progression throughout this one is awesome, from a good intro to a positively rockin' main sectio...
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second to subtense by thekhinReviewed: June 27, 2007
This song is perfectly what it is- ambient. Very good atmosphere throughout (though, being ambient, atmosphere is all it really is)....
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Sleep Darling T-Rex by thekhinReviewed: June 27, 2007
Awesome track. I'd hesitate to consider it d'n'b- definitely more in the vein of hardcore industrial/experimental. It sounds like live animals being stuffed into a coffee grinder. The main synth/dr...
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Path of Regrets by TiLTReviewed: June 27, 2007
A mellow lounge-style ambient track. Nothing earth-shattering; has a very mid-90s electronica sound to me; synth pop with a college degree....
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On the Razor's Edge by TiLTReviewed: June 27, 2007
I like the lo-fi creepy electro introduction- very nice. The bassline comes in a little too soon for my taste- maybe a little more of a buildup would be good before dropping it. Some very nice and w...
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Jungle Fever by mysteriumReviewed: June 27, 2007
Overall, this song sounds very repetitive to me. There are interesting samples at work here, and the whole piece is driven by a clearly talented musical ethic... but unfortunately it just doesn't see...
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Just Another Summer Medley by DuskWireReviewed: June 26, 2007
The track definitely manages to capture overall the feeling of summer and those lazy vibes of late July. Good job on that....
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Follow Me (extended version) by smileReviewed: June 26, 2007
Absolutely gorgeous piece of music- I'd give it a perfect rating, but some of the inherent flaws in composing tunes in a tracker program come through, and in places it has that "tracked" sound....
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Atmospheric Light by mysteriumReviewed: June 25, 2007
The intro is very nice, very atmospheric; builds quite properly to the main section. I'm a bit bothered by the bassline, sounds like just one note warbling over & over- it could do with a little bit ...
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Nothing is Dull by WisemanReviewed: June 25, 2007
Beautiful track! All the synths and instruments and perfectly space- the track breathes very well. I thought the main bass synth could be a little fuller- maybe just crank up the low end of the EQ a...
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The Dark Side by slammyReviewed: June 25, 2007
Good track- as someone already pointed out, it's definitely closer to happy hardcore than hardcore, but they don't have that genre listed (yet). The overall feel is good. I think you could add a mor...
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Synergy of Life and Death by BakemonoReviewed: June 25, 2007
A decent track with a good overall sound....
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