Hello friend.
Before I start this review that I owe you, I must warn you, I write really long and usually unnessecary reviews focusing on parts you'd never think about. So, if I offend you, don't blame me, blame my ears and what they are atuned to listen to.
To the song.
I like the beginning. The fast arp sure adds that little bit that makes you go "wow, what the hell was that? I'll rewind that and listen to it again..." And, even as nice as it sounded, I would have prefered more of a beginning to the song, instead of opening with a strong fast arpeggio.
When you first bring in the percussion, there was two things that I noticed that I did not like at all. One, was that there was no drum break in. The beat generally felt weak and it felt hard to catch onto the beat due to the randomness (kind of) of the beat. A break in and a steady snare hit/kick drum would set the mood perfectly.
The second thing that bugged me with the perceussion was that... it was FL samples! You had really nice synths and vocals in this track, but there was minimal effort put into your percussion sample choices because you never took the time to go to Google and put in "free wav samples" or something of the like. Do that, put them in FL, and it'll make your songs sound a lot better, cause then your songs will be your songs, and not FLs.
I'm at the point where there is... only 1:03 left of the song. By now, I really shall say that this song makes good backround music. But thats about it.
Theres no points of interest, other than the beginning and the vocals. You need to have flashiness, good sir! Do cool shit that makes the listeners go "wow, I wonder how long he screwedd around for until he got THAT little trick figured out..." or something of the like.
Speaking of the vocals...
They were nice. They fitted the backround of the song perfectly. But, there was no effects on them whatsoever. There was no long delay on them, no reverb, no EQ so you could get rid of the noise (those frequencies were probably around the 11K to the 18K range. Try eliminating those for an allround better sound on the vocals.) Make sure that whenever you use vocals or any outside sample, EQ them so they sound flawless; perfect.
As for your mastering, I heard nothing wrong. No distortion. The only thing that bugged me there was that you had a few occasional spots where the vocal samples cluttered themselves. But thats not that bad, since you didn't do it that much.
As you will notice, I am giving you all 10s on this review; the reason for this is that I do not give scores. But, I do adress the aspects of the song and judge them accordingly, and I leave the artist to determine what the score should be :)
So, lets go over the scores, shall we?
Originality: This track is generally original, one, cause I've never heard the original xD, and two, its trance in its pure form. Trance nowadays is about flashiness and the "wow" factor to the listeners. But this track is what trance should be... its something that entrances you.
So, in todays trance industry, this is original. But, if you wrote this 10 or 12 or so years ago, this would be unoriginal, cause everyone was writing this kid of music :)
Diversity: It was bland, I hate to say. It had a nice beginning, but the buildups were ever so mild and repeptitive, and the ending just... ended. Nothing special there.
Clarity: You used FLs samples, and those are obviously very clean. But, those vocals... remember to EQ them so they sound very pretty :D The song wasn't so bad so as to not be able to hear anything but noise, lol.
Effort: As I can see, this is an older song of yours, and I have not listened to your newer pieces, so I have nothing to judge this off of. But, the piece of was repeptitive, AND its a remix, so thats drops your effort points dramatically :(
Overall: I leave you to determine that, good sir.
There is your review, friend. Keep it easy;
-BN