In return for one of my demo tapes I got a demo by Pacman. Since I
promised a review, here it is...
REVIEW: Pacman - Advanced Pac-man No. 1
Behind the simple yet rather nice looking cover of this tape I found
a casette containing thirteen songs. What immediately struck me when
I started listening to the first track "Ghost house" was that it
sounds like something old by Mike Paradinas. And this feeling didn't
disappear as I listened to some more songs - to me the sound and
song structure is definitely inspired by u-ziq. The tracks on the
tape show a lot of potential. There is always something
unpredictable going on. The drawback of this is that some tracks
sound a little bit unfocused and perhaps too strange for my taste.
There are some very good tracks on this demo. "Crystal shatterer" -
is that the old Aphex Twin I detect?, "Jettison" - a rhythmic,
inspiring track, and "Pacman's song" - a cool computer game
soundtrack with nice drum programming. Though the drill'n'bass of
the "Maxx" remix wasn't that inspiring to me, I would love to hear
Pacman do more rhythmic stuff a la "Jettison".
/ Mattias
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Mattias Svanstrom | Email: mattias@isy.liu.se
Division of Data Transmission | Phone: (+46) 13 28 1350
Department of Electrical Engineering | Fax: (+46) 13 28 1339
Linkoping University, Sweden |