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The drums themselves really like a punch, a snap, a quick 'pow', and the sound really over used really quickly. I know the snare sound sticks out really hard, and you aren't using it twice in a typical 4 beat pattern, rather then you'll hit it several times. By this I mean, take a typical kick, snare, kick, snare beat. You have the snare going all over the place during the other parts of that beat, at the same volume as the main downbeat, so it sounds quite cluttered. If you make it sound subtle, kind of like a snare brush is hitting it, it may open things up more.
The kick right from the beginning I didn't really like. It sounds compressed/slight distorted, with some reverb or something on the low end, making it a little muddy.
The hats/shakers don't seem too bad imo though...
One thing that could easily fix all this, is you finding an amen break, and substituting what you have for it.
and then just finding a better kick for the intro.
or that could just be my solution to everything.....