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Title   - Legalize It 2
Disks   - 2
Tunes   - 15
Music   - Nuke / Anarchy

Reviewed by Jogeir Liljedahl


AM/FM Ratings:

             - Presentation 65 %
             - Composition  70 %
             - Samples      60 %

             - Overall      65 %

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First  of  all, the opening-sequence is basically the same as the first music-
disk,  Legalize  It.   An "exiting" tune appears while a large picture scrolls
up'n'down.   Suddenly...Bang!   "Legalize  It"  appears  and shorty after, "2"
falls down from the top of the screen and , perfectly timed with the music.

After  some  loading we are now in the main-menu of the music-disk.  It starts
out  pretty  good with nice graphics and "normal" coding.  The opening-tune is
moody  with  some  nice  chords  and  a normally good 16beat-rhythm.  A normal
pop-disco  tune like a Bananarama-tune from 1988.  The last theme in this tune
is good though, perhaps the best tune on the whole disk.

This  music-disk  seems  to  have been just a "hurry"-release from Anarchy.  I
think  Legalize  It 1 was better compared to this one which basically consists
only  of  Jazz-tunes.   Little  variation,  and the tunes get a bit dull after
15-20  mins.   One  thing  this  music-disks  lacks, as the first one too, and
that's  melodies.  There are no real melodies in his tunes, only a nice rhythm
and some good, originally chords.

Perhaps  a  lot  of you guys wonder why Nuke suddenly changed his music-style?
Well,  so  do  I and I must say that his elder style was better.  Exploring in
other  fields  of  music-styles,  is both defiant and instructive though.  But
when 15 tunes are more or less equally jazz-based, it's normal to get tired of
the tunes after 15-20 mins as I claimed above.

His  samples are generally ok, but there's one thing I'd like to say.  In many
of  his  tunes where he starts with chords only, you're able to hear the noise
in  his samples, and that's not positive.  (i.e.  Visitors and Emotions).  The
drums  are  good,  and so is some of the leads, but the chords and the rest is
affected by some real disturbing noise.  This isn't easy to hear on a monitor,
but  on  an  amplifier I assure you that you'll hear it.  The samples are good
and normally varying in the different tunes, and I couldn't notice some "real"
disturbing replens either.

The  setup  was  well  arranged,  good graphics and coding too.  The music was
original  and  normally  good.   A minority of the amiga-music-listeners likes
listening  to this kind of music.  Most of them will listen to it and say that
it's  odd  and perhaps rather strange.  I liked some of the tunes, but as I've
stated above, the tunes lacks variation.

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