i think you used the wrong kick. for that old school feel i think you need a housy kick. your kick swallows itself...maybe ease up on the release.

I like the ideas you have here, but everything sounds sort of compressed. Also it needs more swing! that old school shit was fairly minimal but damn did it funk. this track starts to funk for me around 4 1/2 minutes, and by then it's almost over.

three or four sounds can be made to fill space. imo it is hard as hell to write funky bang'n minimal music. it is really easy to load up your redrum/mpc/whatever with a thousand drum samples and go crazy...it is much harder to pick two or three drum samples or synth percussion sounds that fit perfectly together and then program them so that they never loose(bore) the listener.

i agree with you, you must modulate your synth hook. it is stagnate.

nice work though...i'd like to hear more stuff like this on here. hearing stuff like this makes me want to sort out some web space and post some of mine...