DJHexy

Thank you very much Hewhoisiam (excellent nickname by the way!). This feedback has been extremely helpful, and will certainly be taken on board for the next WIP. You are right, it does need a proper breakdown and build-up, after listening to a few of my favourite DnB tracks for a few hours I concur that an "amen" moment is required here. I think I've concentrated too much on the melody variations this release (WIP 1 had very little in that department) and not enough on the balance of the beats (which although are improved still require a lot of work). This is the next area to be tackled. I'm also a little torn on the distribution of the high-tone segments with the piano elements. The original piece my Mr Koshiro gets the balance right on the money, I don't think its quite there yet for this one.

Heres the latest rendering! http://www.cdhinteractive.net/expanded3.zip It's just over a minute shorter than WIP #1, but fair bit more has been squeezed in (more variation on the melodies, some further drum loop experimentation). The first 2 minutes are pretty similar in structure to WIP #1, just some subtle changes in the patterns, everything after has been resequenced.

Hiya all, thank you so much for the feedback thus far, especially Ambient, your elevator remix is fantastic! I'm reworking it considerably at the moment, adding variations on the melody and bass layers at the moment, and the overall length of the remix will probably be shortened for the next WIP (and eventual submission), as even though DnB tracks tend to be around the 6 minute mark, it is demanding to ask for 6 minutes of critique, not to mention the file size as kindly pointed out to me by Geeky Stoner I'm considering adding a kind of "downbeat" layer on the precussion mid-tune to break the drum layers up a bit, but thats proving tricky with the overall adrenaline-rush of the original. I'll hopefully have an updated WIP online in the next few days

Thanks for digging it out! This sounds very promising, the instruments sound superb, and I love the build-up at 1:45

This is lovely work One of my favourite games of olde, partly due to its mesmerising soundtrack... I'd love to see what you could do with the last levels bgm ( at around 1:26 but I'm sure you know it all too well).

wow thank you! The original is on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B89EP06mRlA

Hi all, I was suprised to find that nobody has attempted a remix of the almighty track that is Expander, and thought I'd give it a bash myself. I love drum n bass, so I've had a crack at taking it down that route but keeping some of the "oldskool" flavour in there, and experimented with padding it out a little, hence the title "Expanded". It's very much a work in progress, but I would value your feedback very much on all aspects of it. It is available here http://cdhinteractive.net/expanded2.zip Good or bad, I welcome your coments and hope you get at least a little enjoyment from it