MadTracker - "Nine - Warlock's Home" by Nine

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Nine - Warlock's Home

by Nine

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Inge

Originality:	6/10	Technical:	5/10
Theme:	2/10	Quality:	6/10
Arrangement:	2/10	Global:	3/10

Genre: IDM (I assume)

Warlock's Home contains the weirdness of Aphex Twin's older work, but definately not the beauty of it. A bunch of melodies and rhythms have been layered on top of each other, without any form of coherence. This is not a problem by default, but even chaos should follow a pattern. The track is furthermore very short. The only application I can imagine for this track is as an intermezzo between two more normal tracks on a full-length album. The instruments themselve are suitable for each other.

QBical

Originality:	3/10	Technical:	5/10
Theme:	2/10	Quality:	6/10
Arrangement:	1/10	Global:	3/10

Warlocks home by nine is a little piece, a verry little piece of electronic niceness :)

the samples are all quite good, but it's aranged poorly, most of the melody's are out of tune with the organ and the bassline, it's all lose none of it fits together.

Try to find some online tutorials in basic music-theory, and search for harmonisation techniques it will help you sort out melody's and write basslines and chord progressions. You've got the sounds, learn how to use them and you'll be able to make some great music!

Sunbuster

Originality:	2/10	Technical:	3/10
Theme:	2/10	Quality:	4/10
Arrangement:	1/10	Global:	2/10

Hmm, an effort in game/chip music perhaps? The track is very simplistic and circulates around a saw string that does more or less a solo throughout the track. The background is the same pattern all the way through, and this time I don't think I'm lying. My biggest beef is with the plinkety plucketing of the lead. It makes the whole track sound as if the artist sat down one sunday morning, fixed up a simple background pattern and set it to loop, then fired up a midi keyboard and recorded anything that came to mind and said "I'm done". This thought is supported by the fact that the artist in his comments wrote "...but after severak attempts this day I decided this should be the one".

I like the atmoshpere of the background though. Leave out the soloing lead and the background could work as menu music for an old school arcade game (would the loop be a bit longer).

To be honest, this probably was the low point of this compo. I hear some potential in there though, so don't give up. The background melodies, however repetitive and simplistic, that's were the power of this track lies. Just know that the real good compo tracks are often the results of several weeks of work, not one day's work.

ps. My guess at the riddle is that there is a link between your name "Nine" and you using 9 patterns and 9 instruments for this track :)

TNK / ATK project

Originality:	7/10	Technical:	7/10
Theme:	2/10	Quality:	4/10
Arrangement:	5/10	Global:	4/10

Originality: 7
Theme: 2
Arrangement: 5
Technical: 7
Quality: 4
Global: 4

Hmm... what to say... very short (1:30), quite experimental. Nice ambiance, but the theme goes nowhere.
Some sounds are modern, other very classical...

What annoys me the most is that the theme - except the organ theme in the beginning seems randomly entered. If you don't like catchy melodies, this one is for you. Too bad I like catchy melodies. According to the info box, the author claims being "satisfied enough with it". I'm not.

Technically, nothing uses the new features of MT2 that could have been quite handy in this kind of music.

My hint :
- Work out a theme. Some very experimental tracks had well built themes in this compo. Why not yours ? Great music is a great melody and a great soundscape. Yours has an average soundscape...