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ALIVE JUKEBOX BY CXT
It's another Outline release I'm gonna review again, but this time we are
dealing with not a dying specie but a kind of prod that has grown rare over the
last years. Except for the YM ROCKERZ prods, we haven't been given many music
disks what may sound a bit odd since we've met new and talented musicians, not
to forget so many 'new school' sounds courtesy of sceners like Dark Angel or
gWem.
But let's try to avoid a boring theory about dying species and get into the
real things ! Double-click on the prg and soon enough we face the intro screen
displaying a greysih codebar first reading 'Alive Jukebox' soon replaced by the
names of the people involved in that prod. Every name is spoken through a
digitized voice, a cool start !
If you feel lazy - or like me are writing a review at the same time :) -
just let things go their way, otherwise you can use the numeric keys on top of
your keyboard to launch the other tracks. Of course, if anyone wasn't already
aware of it, this jukebox is the Atari 'porting' of dropdabomb's mini CD called
"3chnls4bit" which is reviewed somewhere else in the mag. Hence I'm not coming
back on the tracks quality, besides it's also a matter of taste :)
It's not easy to describe a musicdisk : okay sometimes they only need a
common interface, titles names and the traditional scroller reading a nice
story. But this time CXT has done a lot more since every tune enjoys its own
show. It's not very colorful but perfectly fits the 'cybernetic' feeling. Let's
try to give you a random list of effects included : you'll find bouncing 1 plan
scrollers, 1 plane motives blinking to the music, equalizers sometimes vertical
sometimes horizontal... What else ? Spectrum analyzers, zooming bees and other
odd creatures :)
Most important in such a kind of musicdisk in the syncing between fx and
msx and it totally rocks here ! Fx may look a bit simplistic but they fit the
music style and atmosphere and they go fast, following the crazy beat of every
tune ! We are given a more than decent variety of fx and themes so that every
video is enjoyable from the start to the last beeps !
LAST WORDS
What else could I add ? I could say this prod sucks like hell but for sure
the main editor of this mag would instantly delete this line (most lines you've
read have surely been rewritten against my will and knowledge ! :). More
seriously I just love this musicdisk which reminds me of some Acid demos with
fast'n crazy animations here and there, going wild when the music requires it.
But I guess everyone has already downloaded it so why am I wasting my time
here, can you tell me ?
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