depends on the time i play but if it's late I try to start off with an explosion to get attention and after that I tend to go up and down if you do your eq-ing right a softer record needn't sound less hard then the previous one and if you only play hard records after a while it's not hard anymore... And i try not to play too predictible because for me this becomes tiresome. I find it very important to vary in kicks, for me it's boring to listen to the same kind of kick too long.