MC6 Round 1 Results - Manic Swing

 
"Manic Swing"
(m6v-mnic.zip)

by

Joshua Quantum Porcupine
(Quantum Porcupine)


This song competed in the veteran division of Music Contest 6, where it ranked in block 4.

Judge: Szmajda ,Joshua

Umm.. Interesting. Definatly original. The drms are a bit overpowering, but the piano(?) line is ok. There's definatly an Idea here. I enjoyed it.

Judge: Rodriguez ,Daniel

The samples seems to be taken form an old Casio. This makes the song less interesting than it could have been. The drum loop is not a good choice: too much snare, I think. It could have been a good chip tune, but 255k is not the disk space of this style. The floating tempo bring to the song some groove, but when you hear the same theme five or six times you get bored.

Judge: Tanase ,Adrian

Nice (almost chip, judging by some samples) tune. Nice samples, cool ideea, nice tracking but the bad thing is that the song is pretty repeating.

Judge: Raitio ,Samuel

Well selected samples. Well performed tracking. The overall feeling is that some musicians sit around and play to a rigid beat according to their notesheets. No individual jamming allowed.

Judge: Nowik ,George

Casio! With the exception of the percussion instruments, the samples remind me exactly of the little Casio keyboard I have sitting here. Old memories come back again. The samples all fit together very nicely and blend well. Nice little groove thing going on here. The only thing I'm not seeing is the song going anywhere. The concept is great, and I've not heard a chip-style song done like this in a long time. However, it just doesn't seem to do very much except stick to the same groove. Aside from that, the song is very fun to listen to: Straightforward, to the point, and no nonsense. Very well done.