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Reviewer Top Ten Page
(last updated: 10.20.97)
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First a note: the "top ten" doesn't refer to what most would first assume.
In this case, the "ten" refers to either a minimum of ten or the top ten
percent of all reviewed modules. So, a reviewer with a legacy of more than
a hundred reviews, will show more than the usual ten.
So, this page is where the journeyman reviewers will tell you, in a
nutshell, what their top selections are.
In some rare cases, there might be fewer than ten modules listed. This is
because anything scored less than a 70 ("good") isn't really appropriate.
Some reviewers are harder to please than others, or just didn't get as many
high-quality modules to review, leaving a lot of modules with relatively
low scores.
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As an additional tool, most of the reviewers have provided a bit of info
regarding their musical preferences. This can be used, generally, as
something to match your own tastes to so that you can see which of these
top ten lists might best show modules you'd like too.
You can click on the module's title to skip to the review of that module by
the reviewer in question. If the title is not highlighted, it didn't get a
worded review, only a rating.
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Top Ten additions From the Most Recent Week's Set
WolfSong adds Awakening
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Reviewer Index
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Reviewers with 50+ Reviews
Reviewer # of Reviews
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Mansooj 208
Rebriffer 190
MING 176
Peraphon 139
CCerberus 124
Skullsaw 112
WolfSong 96
Fanta C 78
Shrift 60
Red Death (inactive) 53
Current Active Reviewers Below Minimum
(counting only published reviews)
Reviewer # of Reviews
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Quasar 48
Araneus 46
ChroMix 37
ESP 35
Nova 30
Clones 17
Husanak 14
Shih Tzu 14
Mysterium 11
Nemesis 9
Anders Akerheden 8
Emit 7
TheKid 7
JRice 5
Cubix 4
Walrus26 3
Zond 3 3
Old Wolf 1
Kazmeyer 0
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Mansooj
[208 reviews]
"My preferences range from New Age (Jarre's a favorite) to Heavy Metal
(Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, are favorites here). I don't
care much for Punk, Reggae, Country, or much of the stuff termed Hardcore.
Rap and Hip Hop are annoying as hell. On the flipside, I very much go for
orchestrals and Wagnerian style classical. I find Techno to be a
chameleon with too many shades to be accurate with, but I like the faster
paced styles. Toss in some Blancmange, a side of Abba and few slabs of
Dio, Rush, Boston and Rainbow and that about rounds out the picture.
Picasso, eat your heart out!"
Title Rating Style
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1 Cosmic Outflow 97 Spacey
2 Dark Promise 96 Easy-Listening
3 The Blue Valley 95 New Age/Orchestral
4 Lothlorien 92 New Age/Atmos
5 Fall From Sky 92 Demo/Dance
6 Merciful Lie 91 Light Rock/Atmos
7 Computer Sins 91 Demo/Light Rock
8 My Wonderland 90 Dance/Techno
9 Phobic 90 Rock/New Age
10 Mind Machine 90 Fantasy/Demo
11 Under the Sea 90 Atmos/Light Rock
12 Winter Dreams 90 Fantasy
13 Secret Dance 89 New Age/Lt. Techno
14 Renouncement 89 Hardcore Techno
15 Endless Heaven 89 Dreamy/Soft Rock
16 Back to the Cocoons 88 Breakbeat Techno
17 Jaunt 88 Fantasy/Rock
18 Images of Terror 88 Techno/Spacey
19 Beneath the Blue Moon 88 New Age/Fantasy
20 Xenogenesis 88 Fast Ambient
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Rebriffer
[190 reviews]
"I prefer danceable tracks but I do like tracks that offer even the
smallest amount of innovation. I like world music a great deal and am
always interested in MODs made in other countries. My own musical style
reflects this odd mixture, but what I like above all else is IDEAS!! NEW
IDEAS!!"
Title Rating Style
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1 Cotton Wool 100 Jungle/Trance
2 Burning Desire 100 Acid/Triphop
3 The Harlequin 100 Jazz
4 Submerged 100 Atmos/Ambient
5 Merciful Lie 100 Light Rock/Atmos
6 Computer Sins 100 Demo/Light Rock
7 Dark Promise 96 Easy-Listening
8 Under the Sea 95 Atmos./Light Rock
9 Indigo 95 Ambient/Techno
10 Suburbia/High Hopes 95 Techno/Dance
11 Czech Pohoda 95 Jazz
12 Clouded Visions 95 Trance/Ambient
13 Gravity-Chick 95 Triphop/Spacey
14 Trance of Heaven 95 Dance/Trance
15 Fiat Lux 95 Fantasy/Light Jazz
16 Wake Up and Dance! 95 Dance/Lt Rock/Fant.
17 Runtime 95 Dance/Demo
18 Fall From Sky 95 Demo/Dance
19 Street-Surfin 90 Techno/Ambient
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MING
[176 reviews]
Title Rating Style
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1 Celestial Lullabye 100 Ambient/House
2 Indigo 98 Ambient/Techno
3 Dark Promise 97 Easy-Listening
4 Another Dream 96 Dance
5 Ebbtide-Moon 96 Trance
6 Under Pressure 95 Techno/Acid
7 Jasmine Tea 95 Rock
8 Sarsippius' Ark 94 Jazz/Funk
9 Synth Candy 94 Demo
10 Purple of Never 93 Orchestral
11 Snowin' at Sahara 93 Pop/Soft Rock
12 Evolution 92 Jungle/Ambient
13 Four Handed Blues 91 Blues/Jazz
14 Humanalogue 91 Ambient Dub
15 Suburbia/High Hopes 91 House/Techno/Dance
16 Tide of Seasons 91 Orchestral
17 Cycle of God 90 Ambient
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Peraphon
[139 reviews]
My music preferences are mainly of the rock, metal and demo-techno genres.
A piece has to really stand out in other genres such as acid, rave and
funk for me to add it to my meagre module collection. I have tried
listening to different pieces in the jungle and house styles, but I just
can't seem to get into them. Such pieces aren't going to score
exceptionally high from me.
My favourite mod composers are Purple Motion, Skaven, Vogue, Bedlamite,
Prism, C.C.Catch, Soul, Captain, Siren, and Zodiak. I also like Mick
Rippon, Vad and Jogeir Liljedahl. Usually any pieces that fit in with
these composers I will like.
Title Rating Style
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1 Crush 96 Metal
2 Winter Dreams 96 Fantasy
3 Fall From Sky 94 Demo/Dance
4 Beneath the Blue Moon 94 New Age/Fant./Demo
5 Jaunt 93 Fantasy/Rock
6 A Walk in the Sky 93 Soft Rock/Dreamy
7 Daylight 92 Ballad/Jazz
8 Endless Heaven 91 Dreamy/Soft Rock
9 Deus ex Machina 90 Metal/Orchestral
10 Mind Machine 89 Fantasy/Demo
11 Centauri Grey 89 Demo
12 Moonwinds 88 Soft Rock/Ballad
13 Monster in the Closet 88 Metal/Thrash
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CCerberus
[123 reviews]
"Music that can provoke an emotional response is going to be the kind of
music that appeals to me the most. Music which is repetitious or doesn't
strike any recognitive chord with me will most likely be more of a burden
for me to listen to than a pleasure. Historically, the types of
emotional responses that I have preferred for my music to supply are
aggressive, 'large', dominating feelings. Therefore, I often listen to
and compose songs that contain elements of classical music and metal.
Happy songs generally do little for me, but I've heard some good exceptions.
Additionally, and importantly, I tend to like music with a theme--some
central concept which supplies the song with coherence and wholeness.
Any song written with a 'topic' in mind will probably tend to spark my
interest (and if a song sparks my interest, I'm much more likely to ENJOY
IT). :)
I feel that the best music comes from the DEEPEST parts of the mind and
spirit, be they dark or brilliant."
Title Rating Style
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1 Jaunt 96 Fantasy/Rock
2 Opal Velvet 95 Ambient/Industrial
3 Giggle of the Fairies 95 Fantasy/New Age
4 Stingray 94 Demo
5 In Absence of Minor 94 Light Rock/Ambient
6 Fifteen 92 Ballad/Soft Rock
7 Symphony 92 Orchestral
8 Trance of Heaven 91 Dance/Trance
9 Landwards 90 New Age/Techno
10 West South-West 90 Ballad
11 Envisions 90 Light Rock
12 Mind Machine 90 Fantasy/Demo
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Skullsaw
[112 reviews]
As a longtime Amiga user I am partial to four channel mods. It's only been
recently that I've been able to checkout the PC mod scene and I must say
I'm impressed (if not jealous). My preferences in styles knows no bounds,
both in mods and real world formats. I can say that I lean towards the
techno realm and all of its sub-genres. The only mod style that I can
honestly say I have an intense dislike for is the 'demo' style. It all
sounds like background music for computer games. Being that I use an Amiga
running at a pitiful 25mhz, I don't know if I can accurately judge +4
channel mod's technical aspects such as sample quality and effectes usage.
I can, however, judge musicality, which I think supercedes all other
aspects.
Title Rating Style
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1 Ebbtide-Moon 97 Trance
2 Positive Negative 95 Industrial/Atmos.
3 Daemon 95 Dark Trance
4 Nemesis 95 Techno/Trance
5 The Bells 92 Experimental Jazz
6 Cryo-Stasis 91 Acid/Trance/Ambient
7 Solar Eclipse 90 Atmospheric/Spacey
8 Streetbeat 90 Hiphop
Tripping to Neptune 90 Deep Trance
10 Armed 90 H'core Techno/Indus
11 Deep Cover 90 Trance/Techno
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WolfSong
[96 reviews]
I tend to enjoy almost all kinds of music as long as it's made well and has
a good bit of passion and emotion packed into it, though my favorite songs
seem to fall within the techno, demo, fantasy and rock areas. If you
really want to knock my socks off then something with a bit of nicely
executed surrealism, eerie-ness or "darkness" seems to do it every time.
Those are the ones that tend to stay on my hard drive permanently.
People whose work I've consistently enjoyed (and been inspired by in my own
module writing) are LizardKing, Vouge, Mick Rippon, Elwood, Skaven,
Leviathan and Purple Motion, though I have been moved by most all styles of
music at one time or another.
Title Rating Style
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1 Fall From Sky 96 Demo/Dance
2 The Blue Valley 91 New Age/Orchestral
3 Under the Sea 91 Atmos./Light Rock
4 Polar Bjorn Attack 90 Goa
5 Giggle of the Fairies 90 Fantasy/New Age
6 Beneath the Blue Moon 90 New Age/Fant./Demo
7 Awakening 89 Easy-List./Dreamy
8 Fiat Lux 89 Fantasy/Light Jazz
9 Images of Terror 89 Techno/Spacey
10 Passion Play 88 Fantasy/Light Jazz
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Fanta C
[78 reviews]
I try to give any form of music a fair listening. Having slaved over my
own MODs (with no success at all!), I know how much work goes into it.
If I had to classify my preferences then the list would look like this:
Classical, light/middle rock, pop, instrumentalism and landscaping.
The two most important things to me are melody and technical achievment
(bearing in mind the inherent limitations of any one format).
Title Rating Style
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1 Endless Heaven 100 Dreamy/Soft Rock
2 Envisions 100 Light Rock
3 The Blue Valley 99 New Age/Orchestral
4 Fall From Sky 96 Demo/Dance
5 Symphony 94 Orchestral
6 Fishbone 93 Jungle/Trance
7 Suburbia/High Hopes 92 House/Techno/Dance
8 Coral Reef 92 New Age/Demo/SR/Dr.
9 Fiat Lux 91 Fantasy/Light Jazz
10 Dream Flight: Inst. Mix 91 Dance/Rave
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Shrift
[60 reviews]
Title Rating Style
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1 Hold the Line 80 Funk/Jazz
2 Cycle of God 72 Ambient
3 Jasmine Tea 72 Rock
4 Improvization 70 Jazz
5 Czech Pohoda 70 Fusion-Cont. Jazz
6 Alien Ate My Bong 70 Triphop
7 Demo Funk 70 Funk
8 Merciful Lie 70 Lt Rock/Atmospheric
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Red Death
[53 reviews (inactive)]
"I like 'demo-style' mods like those good old 4-track Amiga tunes/Future
Crew type tunes, funk-kinda tunes, and, um, I'm not sure how else to
describe it...I like ambient and jungle less than most, though."
Title Rating Style
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1 Mellow Thang 85 Lt Rave/Lt Techno
2 Erilaisia Nelikulmioita 83 Dance/Ballad
3 Clandestine Affair 80 Rock/Pop
4 Atlantique 80 Light Rock/Demo
5 Fall From Sky 80 Demo/Dance
6 Stomping on Elephantus 80 Funk/Jazz
7 STUPiDiTY 80 Techno/Dance
8 Synth Candy 80 Demo
9 Hold the Line 77 Funk/Jazz
10 Lodge of 3 Globes 77 Techno/Dance/Acid
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