RO Music REview: Bassy

 

Title:Bassy

Released: April 21, 2008

Genre: Experimental

Tutorial Stage. Menu Music. BGM.

Though the first experiment was a flounder, continuing to play with music was a good choice, leading to the making of this interesting piece of work.

Hearing it now, this reads to me as a classic basic hip-hop track. I could see this having a rap dubbed over it. It's versatile in its simplicity.

It's still made of loops, but in this specific case, that might not be such a detrimental thing.

 

It is actually in a published game too, so clearly I'm not alone in thinking this song had something going for it.

Rating: 9/10

RO Music REview: -Msm- (Hyper Instant Mix)

 

Title: -Msm- (Hyper Instant Mix)

Released: April 17, 2008

Genre: ?? Music?

 

With experimenting comes... output. I think PJ had it right when he reviewed this back in the day with 'This never should have seen the light of day.' This was nothing short of a creative exercise, and the fact it's published is a bit short-sighted. But! For reviewing purposes, I'm glad it exists.

Remixing music in and of itself is an art. And for my first attempt at it, I took an 'okay'(Debatable)  song, and tried to spin it into something more. What was my infatuation with these sets of noises? It's hard to grasp now where my brain was then.

I did throw some other sounds in, and funny enough I think if I had taken those sounds (around the 1:00 mark) and scrapped the basis of the remix, I could've had maybe a semi-decent song in place of this. 

But this did teach me things! It just... is... noise. Oops.

 

Rating: 0/10

RO Music REview: Msm

 

Title: -Msm- {DJ Riccy's Theme}

Released: April 15, 2008

Genre: ?? Music?

A sound clip of me made with my "extremely high quality" dollar store microphone. That followed with some quick drums and a guitar loop.

I mean, it has vocals technically I guess. And it was certainly an experiment.

It sounds like an intro to a cartoon or something. Best I can think of. I dunno about it being my theme song still though. 

Rating: 2/10

RO Music REview: Elemental Zone

 

Title: Elemental Zone

Released: April 5, 2008

Genre: Electronic Music 

Loopy as it is, (get it? heh.) this song certainly has quite a strong intro, and solid melody.

But if it weren't for the pre-genned loops at my aid, it likely would have sounded half as good. 

Would vocals have added? I feel with this genre it can go either way.

At least this song doesn't feel like it's VGM only. But it's got room to improve. 

The release time was due to an inspiration blitz that came with the music making program. I can only reminiscence on that feeling...

Rating: 7.5/10

RO Music REview: Ric's Exhibition

 

Title: Ric's Exhibition

Released: April 5, 2008

Genre: Electronic Music 

In this case, realizing the limit of loops, I tried to break the mold and do something different. That said, I still and only knew how to loops. So enter this: A song made without the systematic building-up that was all previous songs.

It's a bit chaotic, albeit it's certainly interesting. The lack of lyrics in this one makes sense, because the diverse noise definitely holds the attention. It'd likely end up a track 8 or 9 on an actual album, but it sure is music of some sort. Room for improvement? Always. But this was a good direction.

Rating: 8.5/10

RO Music REview: Crystone Caverns

 

Title: Crystone Caverns

Released: April 4, 2008

Genre: Electronic Video Game Music 

Ever the ambitious one, I was thinking about making games of my own when composing this. Based on how my tunes were coming out, I was on the right track. It certainly invokes a feeling of some sort, and does keep changing enough that in the background of a space or fantasy-esque game level, it would fit nicely.

Outside of a video game though, it's not the sort of thing someone would be putting on their playlist.

At one point the game that was planned for it was the infamous project ADOH. This song is a good reminder that I need to learn to code.

Rating: 7.5/10