Great music
This would go great in a boss battle
Reviews for "SpK*) - Shooting at High Speed"
Old School!
This is one of the few tunes in the competition that's actually old school. I could totally see this in an old fast paced platform shooter. Not particularly spacey, but none of those tunes really were, right?
NAC Judge
Shooting at High Speed (Spikrodd)
It wasn't until at 54 seconds, that I could envision space as part of this theme. After that moment however spaceship barrel roles and flashing of lasers were dancing through my head. I think the high tempo grace notes really add to the feel of the "old" feeling the music here. And amazingly, the low quality sounds and samples really give a sense of being vintage here. The quantization of noting and chord placement was spot on, good job!
I feel Spikrodd really could have elaborated on the second theme that was presented here; it feels as though the idea was explored and then ended abruptly.
Another factor that took away from the epicness of this piece, was a lack of ambiance, the presence of the music sounded a tad dry and centered right in front of you with no stereo movement.
Bottom line: This entry met all of the criteria of the contest and deserves a solid score of 8. With an additional .2 bonus for complexity and .3 bonus for old school arcadeness. Overall 8.5
NAC Judge
Other than a couple odd notes around 0:28 and toward the end, this is a very cool composition. Great olschool sound, it's fast paced and awesome. Somehow it reminded me more of a platformer than space game.
8.7/10
guh...
couple odd notes at 00:30? wow people are fucking stupid. it's called creativity. i didn't notice anything wrong with the melody. if you want, you could listen to pachelbel all day long and you'd still be an asshole to assume that you know more about music is every time someone else introduces a melodic idea away from a triad or a major interval. that kind of nit picking pisses me off to no end. originality is under rated and those few comments highlight what i find to be heavily hypocritical musical opinions. hey chron, evil-dog... have you guys ever heard of a tritone? have you guys ever tried to be unique, original, or creative?
I took off a point due to the fact that chip tune shit is glorified baroque mentality and it has no creativity to it whatsoever. this whole comp was a shit on my chest chron fap fest. puke in my mouth.