| Category | Rating |
|---|---|
| Track Structure | 10 |
| Interest | 9 |
| Melody | 9 |
| Performance | 10 |
| Lyrics | 10 |
| Enjoyment | 10 |
| Recording Quality | 10 |
| Commercial Appeal | 8 |
| Overall | 9.5 |
I'm glad to grab the oppurtunity to review AtomTha Immortal as I think
he his a very talented geezer. He comes across to be a very
educated man, knowledgable with what seems to be alot of respect.
I think that this mix is stunning as far as hip hop goes. The
whole track is produced to perfection. Every last little detail
can be heard and that is down to the quality alone of Atoms production
skills. The beat is real nice and is complimented when listened
to through headphones because of the panning of certain hits. Its
a mysterious sound to the percssion..they sound dark and frantic which
also is complimented by the extremley eerie lead melody. It
sounds quite futuristic and as peviousley said..sounds eerie, ,the
whole track sounds demented but that meant to be taken in the best
possible way..basically meaning I can't believe how cool the eerieness
sounds. There is a real nice flute type instrument that
introduces the track panning in the right speaker..that sound adds some
emphasis on the scary feel to the track and is placed in what seems to
be quality places. The bass line is quite simple but sounds
really effectice, this too is placed and taken out in parts to add to
the structure of the track and does'nt sound too repetitive..it also
pounds out the speakers like an explosion with the frequenct turned
down to a minimum. The vocals are one of the things that
impressed me mostly though. I do think that Atom is the best
rapper on the site and thats no disrespect to any other rapper cause'
there are some great talents out there, but Atom really kills it
everytime. The man is crystal clear and gets every word out with
ease, he has an effective flow that sounds brutal everytime. The
eq'ing and production on the vocals cant be praised up enough and is a
nice touch putting in the stress verse but would have been nice to read
the lyrics too, quality to introduce an alter-ego. The lyrics seem like
they have been written with extreme thought. It is very cleverly
writ and there are references in there that really are unique to the
artist..and what I mean by that is that only Atom could come out with
such intricate scripture and blend it together to produce a work of
art.. "We strike the modern man like Gregor Mendel, meddling with
his alleles/ Wounds of Darwinian Theory will never heal" - quite
ingeniuos really, you cant belive how amazed I was when I heard that
for the first time and " follow a path through Euclidean spacetime/
Mythological allusion inserted in every line/ Telekinetically crack a
lion's spine/ Freeing the blind from mind control on mankind's soul" is
also something special. Sometimes the corellation of words in
some hip hop tracks tends to take a tangent along the line and explain
a situation by taking the longest route possible, ,they to me are very
interesting tracks and this is no different. You tell your point
in a very clever way and that is definatley something that keeps me
listening and to be honest there are very few people in hip hop who can
tell a good story..I can be quite set in my ways.
Once again i'll say that this has been a cool track to review..there
are some folk who would'nt listen because of the genre so to get a
commercial hook in hip hop can either be the easiest thing to achieve
or the hardest. You have achieved a fantstic hook but also sounds
very underground, thats why I gave an eight in that section.
I'm getting my finances sorted and then gonna purchase the album.."Day The World Changed" (www.AtomThaImmortal.com)...which
is looking to be a very promising purchase downt ot the sheer quality
in the samples when on his website, hope every track is as good as "Achilles" cause' you will be on to a right winner my man, peace.
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