MANTRONIX AND TIP
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³Comments  From  the  studio  musician,
Andreas Stenhager:
¹
These  guys  most  be  the most varied
artists   when   it   comes   to   the
mainthemes,   they  have  a  bunch  of
really good ideas which they sometimes
expand  and  succeed making so good as
if  it  was  real music.  But it isn't
real  music,  and  that  is very clear
when  it  comes to the samples made by
these guys.  Sure, they are innovative
and  that  is  really important, but I
think they would have succeeded better
if   they   would   have  used  better
samplerates  and  if  they  would have
spent  more  time  trying to loop some
voices.   Sometimes  the loops destroy
the  whole  tune  and that is really a
pity  since the tunes generally keep a
very high standard.
As  stated  Mantronix&Tip  are full of
own  ideas and that is very important!
Yes, you can make hundreds of poptunes
and  receive lots of cash from it, but
the tunes would not have been possible
if not people like Mantronix&Tip would
have  existed.   One new idea is often
better than ten old, don't ever forget
that.
Search  for  me, Yummy Gap and Joyride
are  all  very nice tunes, with worked
through  chords  and  samples that fit
each other very well.
'Joyride' really provides the listener
with  the  nice,  soft ambience that I
didn't  expect  to  find in the scene;
¶I've  heard many ballads but none well
made right through.
'Search  for me' consists of very well
chosen  chords  and the melody is well
worked  through,  but why do they loop
the bass as if they were drunk?
 'Yummy   Gap'   is   really   a  nice
experimental   tune   that  must  have
dozens   of  different  sounds  almost
equal.   It is a good idea indeed, but
I think they're too bound of the facts
that  it's  new, and they thereby miss
some  interesting  things  that  would
have made this tune a real hit.

 These  guys are really talented, they
know   much  about  music  and  I  can
imagine  that  they  could  free their
minds better with better equipment.


³Diesel's comment:
¹
Mantronix&Tip    are    no    ordinary
musicians.   Their themes conquer most
other  Amigamusic.   If they would use
better  samples,  they  would  be  the
best(apart  from  Heatbeat),  but they
don't  and that really brings down the
average impression of professionality.
Some   of   the   'Crystal  Symphonies
II'-tunes  are wonderful arranged, and
so  are Overload and Wacko.  The songs
have  great  ideas,  like in Yummy Gap
and  Search  for  me(and  Wacko!)  and
sometimes  they  really  succeed.  But
why  not  trying  to  loop the samples
before  using  them?  Or making them 5
Kb  longer  so  that  the  end  of the
sequence gets room?