Event [minimal house]

[unknownastronuat]

Hey everyone! so i tried something a little different. spent most of my time on all the rhythmic elements in the track. ive been tweaking this mix for the past week or so, and ive finally decided that i should get some feedback from you guys. any and all feedback is welcome!!!
http://soundcloud.com/unknown-astronaut-1/event

*EDIT*
I changed a couple of things based on the feedback and some personal ideas
brought down the high end of the kick
changed the reverb on the main melody bass
tweaked the FX
changed the decay of the hihat in the first half of the song
filtered the drums on the break/build
I think thats it... hope you all like it! and more feedback is welcome!!! ill leave the original track ^^ up for comparison
http://soundcloud.com/unknown-astronaut-1/event-final-probably

[Nexaka]

I like those synths man... Feels like one of those pop club scenes
The top kick is bit too clicky, (It's like a metronome :X) maybe turn it down a bit.
Other than that, awesome track you got there

[ridcully123]

The intro is really cool, I can imagine this being easy to mix into a set/remix
Your kick could probably use some lower freq. A 404 would be cool layered with your original.
I love how you never get repetitive, I'm loving the samples as well. At 2.16 that filtered poly has a sort of strange echo. Maybe try a differn't one? (Stylistic choice maybe )
Well done though, great job.

[ConfusionGrows]

I was just listening to some 90s minimal/progressive/tech house stuff by Spooky and Underworld and to be honest this could have fit right in with them as far as standards are concerned. I'd echo Nexaka's comment about the top end of the kick having an audible metronome-like tone but otherwise I couldn't say anything negative about this one!

[dogheads]

Quality track. nice vibe you got going. perhaps filter the main synth up and down to get some peaks and troughs of resonance there and there for some variation in parts. Agree with Confusion about the "underworldy" feel to it - props.

[DayOne]

Left some comments on your track! Sounds great. You got good sounds and production quality on this! You need more fans!

[Luke Icard]

i really like this man, cool stuff.

just work on the clickness of the kick drum, seems like its too high. good job on the percussion too!

[unknownastronuat]

Thanks for all the great feedback!! you guys are right about the click of the kick... ill take a look at it and see if i can sort that out.

[Dave]

Nice production man! Great atmosphere.

At 1.16 the bass sounds like it's clashing with the frequencies from the sub-heavy kick to me - I'd have either one or the other, or perhaps sidechain the bass with the kick so they feel separated a bit more.

It feels pretty repetetive to me, but I'm guessing that's intentional considering the genre name!

Drums sound great, nice subtle top end changes throughout. Like the white noise as well.

Some of the FX like at 3.34-3.37 to me sound they could do with a high pass delay or something, they don't work as well as those white noise sweeps for suddenly cutting off to me.

[feelthecisuM]

The kick is way to airy and clicky. Generally in minimal the kick should be left at a fairly low frequency to allow the other top end instruments to breath. With that, most if not all the elements should evolve, considering that less is more in the genre. Now this doesn't mean it needs to be SUPER drastic, a slight decay increase on a high hat through the entire song would be good, growing verb decay time, slight increase/decrease on delay sync (fall off time ever so slightly). The clap, in my opinion, would benefit if it were more of a field recording, like a few layered sounds (A light switch clicking on and off). The percussion is far to splashy for minimal house, the hits need to be short and precise, a good example that relates to this song would be The Light - Tempered DJs. Also, the redux rythmic pattern shouldn't play the length of the track, it should change, evolve, or be a totally different instrument in certain parts.

The bass sound is really nice, sounds great, and should be side chained under the drums.
The atmostpheric elements at 1:08 and 1:27ish are awesome, the track should have more things like that! Sounds really good.

You hit the mark as a house track, but as far as minimal? You kinda missed the target. All in all, a good house tune.