| Category | Rating |
|---|---|
| Track Structure | 9 |
| Interest | 9 |
| Melody | 7 |
| Performance | 9 |
| Lyrics | 0 |
| Enjoyment | 10 |
| Recording Quality | 9 |
| Commercial Appeal | 7 |
| Overall | 8.6 |
MD-1 Project - The Fear
Drum And Bass. Never really a genre I've delved into much, so here goes.
This is some seriously dark stuff we're faced with here, laid together with a naturally felt manner of arrogance and abandon that just oozes from the speakers and down the walls, especially if you've got a system that can handle some serious bass. This music works, this music flows. Enough said. End of review.
Naah, just kidding.
Every so often I come across a track of a new genre (to me) that kind of blinds me a little, kind of makes me wonder why I'd never noticed this particular style before as another possible influence to add to my own.
This, I'm pleased to say is one of those kind of tracks.
It's those Drum And Bass drums. They may not be to everyone's tastes, but they've got me good.
I've been sucker-punched by many styles of playing drums in the past, the rolling-thunder-kick style of John Bonham and Keith Moon, the full-on, kick-yer-'nads style of Cozy Powell and the Solid/Jazzy/Loose/Rock Multi-Combo style of Ian Paice (they sound like they'd make great fighting partners in Tekken or something), from kettle drums to tin cans, from steel drums to wooden blocks, from cowbells to fish being slapped on concrete, it's all influenced me in one way or another. But enough about me. I ramble.
I can't stress how intensly dark and intimidating I'm finding this style of music and this track has, in all those respects, been put together very, very well indeed, nothing jumps out too far from the mix, nothing's kept too far back as to be unoticable.
Nicely played style of bass too, with an acidic sound that's just enough to start to grind at your eardrums, yet deep enough to soothe the bass freak inside.
If, as I assume, everything here has been programmed from scratch, especially THOSE DRUMS, I'm mightily impressed.
This track belies a maturity that still hasn't lost any of it's youthful, freeform and uncaring edge.
As I usually do, I sniffed around some of the artist's other works and found them all to be of a good standard, all of them work well in the genre they've been placed in.
Nice work all round. Keep it up.
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