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Originally Posted by c-mind
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I'll jump on that. I don't think you butchered the song. It's quite a solid remix. And I quite like it. In this case you can safely call it a remix because it's quite recognizable and the feel of the original is still there. That's good.
A few notes and dislikes.
First of all, this is a matter of personal preference. Don't like the bass-line diving with the pads. It'd be more interesting IMO if it didn't.
Then the bridge just before the main, I'd make it twice longer and give it more dynamics. I'd drop the initial volume quite a bit and build up the clarity and the volume more slowly. Add a little bit of anticipation to it. Now it just feels a bit in par dynamics wise with the rest of it even as you dropped the beat.
In the end you quite needlessly increased the level of the melody sample. It even cracks a bit and there's a bit too much reverb to my tastes. The original sample has quite a bit of it already so I wouldn't have added any more.
There's also some rather interesting chords in the original you could have incorporated.
Not to get all negative here are some likes.
Good choice of samples. A bit conventional but they fit together nicely. Nothing seems out of place.
The extra hi-hat you added about midway through. Nice touch that allowed you to extend the main quite a bit without it getting repetitive. Nice touch.
Levels of individual samples are really good apart from the few things I bitched about earlier.
Overall really good. I'd see no problem in including this on one of my mixtapes.
If you have any more remixes or original works I'd be delighted to hear them.