MadTracker - MT2 Compo

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Spanish Mood

By Trippcore

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Yannick

Originality:	5	Technical:	6
Theme:	6	Quality:	7
Arrangement:	6	Global:	6

Inge

Originality:	6	Technical:	8
Theme:	7	Quality:	8
Arrangement:	9	Global:	8

Sounds like: Aphrodite in a melodic mood.

Good:
-It's drum 'n bass. And it's quite professional drum 'n bass. Actually, hearing this song while going out would be most amusing. I'm pretty sure that it would cost me the drink I would be holding, and that's a good thing.
-The vocals are amazingly good. Both the quality as their usage show skills.
-Drum programming is good. Variations with samples, very good drive, lots of energy.
-Sample choice is nice, especially for this style of music. Pads, oneshots, quite some melody, and a good balance between all samples.

Improvements:
-the main bassline (that should carry the song) is not powerful enough. A more sharp sample that would be more dynamic in usage would be much better here. After all, people want to hook into the song (I personally tend to hum along while dancing, even if its nasty dark drum 'n bass.), and this bassline doesn't show enough identity to make me perform that way. This costs you quite some points.

Sunbuster

Originality:	3	Technical:	6
Theme:	6	Quality:	8
Arrangement:	4	Global:	6

Apollo440ish track, to the extent that I wonder if there aren't some samples ripped from Apollo440, vox for instance?

There's a good drive, but it's missing that raw power that the vocals are talking about. It's missing that driving edge. The drums are doing a good job trying to get there, they could have a wider stereofield though. As they're pretty much in the spotlight all the time, the tune sounds very centered as it is now.
I'm slightly dissapointed that the drums are mostly drumloops, would have loved to see how these kinds of drums could be done in madtracker.
The tune has slightly too much reverb used imo. A track like this I think would be better of with a dryer lead, a dryer overall sound.

The vocal snippets, well, perhaps used a bit too often. They get repetitive.

I really like the intro, that short guitar riff that's played is really cool. The melody is pretty good also, and so are the levels between instruments.

Overall, if you're into Apollo440 you'll like this one. This track is more or less proof that apollo440-like music can be made in trackers, with the right samples. However, this also means this isn't much of an original song. Still, very enjoyable to listen to.