SimCity - "You're fired, Mr. DJ"

[MasterJace]

More fooling around with house and techno blends today. Familiarizing myself with FL loops and patterns so I've got a repetitive remix here of the "You're fired" theme from SimCity.

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Welcoming any critique.

[hewhoisiam]

It's an 8 second source?! Oh my.

It's got a nice smooth feel to it right off, which is a sort of mellow groove that I could get into, but as a whole the piece ends up way to static for me. I get bored with it in the first minute.

The first synth at 1:23 is a welcome change, but it doesn't do anything for the other patterns being played over and over again.

The drum solo on it's own isn't a bad change of pace, I like it.

Hope that helps.

[MasterJace]

Thanks guys, sent the mix back to the workshop and hope to turn something out in the near future. The computer I used for mixing is down for the count at the moment so it'll be a bit.

[Rozovian]

Groovy.

Bass is cool, but too loud for the final mixdown. The chords synth/epiano is a little thin (try running it through an amp simulator for some added phat). The sustained thingy around 3:55 and on is a bit too detuned to sound good, also clashes around 4:40 with the monoglide lead, again around 5:17 with the chords. Could just be the detuning, not sure.

Interpretation-wise, it's a bit too conservative for ocr; it's an original track over and under a loop of the original. While it's a cool track, I think you need to draw some more material from the source and/or find a second source to draw from. The bass melody in the original might lend itself to some new melodies to use here. Also, don't feel you can't change the chords or their rhythm (changing both might take it too far tho).