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Lackadaisical by DJ Dost
Author’s website: khaledstudios.com
Description of the track:
This is my first full length track. Its a classic progressive house tune with an upbeat electronic melody.
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i really like this. sounds great. nice airy feel
this could be a great synthpop hit!
if i were to change anything it would be to make the first build a little more interesting then a basic hihat build. but i do love the melody that drops in
That bleepy synth sounds so cheaaaap. You must give it more voices/chorus and may be some saturation… dont really know what. But it definitely needs something to do with it. Overall track not bad as for progressive house. Also I have an idea where you can take out some notes of that bleep-synth and slightly add them but using another synth (may be sounding kinda similiar to the main one, but slightly different, with longer tail etc) It may work good.
add that with slight progression, work with velocity, which you can also try to connect with synth’s pitch… to make them sound a lil bit weird you know
You need a bit of swing on the beats. It sounds a bit too quantised and rigid at the moment. And at 1.30 is starts to drift out of time. Not bad though, just needs tweaking.