** A NGAIC REVIEW **
o/ :)
COMPLIMENTS:
I like the simplicity of the drums, and your instrument choices for your main melody. The transitions are pretty tasty too. :D
CRITIQUE:
Your pad/bass is way too loud, sadly. I think it as a whole is a bit too loud, and in looking at the graph of the song, it peaks all the time. Your melodic and harmonic variances (even though the song loops and is a bit repetitive) is actually pretty good, I just think the balancing/mixing between your drums, your instruments, and your pads/bells is uneven and there's defo certain instruments that's overpowering / blasting out the rest of the arrangement (ex: @ 2:50 you have several instruments going nuts at the same time and fighting for 'space', especially the bells, and their timbre is almost piercing). If you want your bass to be powerful, the drums should also pack the punch, and get sidechain compressed together (so you can hear the kicks and snares push through the bass when they come up, and the bass be present at all times), without sacrificing the volume of the song.
Otherwise, I do like this, and think it's pretty weird and EDM/psytrance-inspired.
Good luck on the remaining Layers. Look forward to hearing more from you. :)