The City

Hello people,
 
 Just about finished something new for me, and I'm in need of your ears to let me know how this mix translates to you. Any problems with it? any ideas of where I could improve the production. All help most welcome.
 
 
https://soundcloud.com/russ-white/new-city  Updated

All I can say is I'm glad I don't live in that city
 
This mix is so busy that it is really hard to discern the different things that are going on. The organ kind of rides herd over everything else in several places because it is so big. There is some harsh sounding distortion on the drums (loop?) and with the reverb wash, the drums take up too much space in the middle. If the reverb is part of the loop or samples, I'd suggest replicating the drums with a different kit.
 
There are lots of starts and stops, which I would guess is an interpretation of traffic? However, I never felt any melodic theme really grab me and "drive" the song in any particular direction. You've got some really good ideas here, but I'd reset the mix and remove all the reverb. Then think about that melody.
 
From 10000 feet, this tune is a cross between a James Bond theme and something with a little more undercurrent. I'd push it more towards the latter, IMO...
 
Regards,
Dan

+1 to the above comments.  Really cool tune, but the density does seem to not add to the effectiveness... though I'm not sure if its the parts you've written or the sounds themselves - there seems to be more than one with some distortion that could be adding up (along with/in addition to reverb). 
 
To quote Wookiee - "you have the skills to pull it together". 
 

Thanks ever so much guys. Your feedback has been extremely helpful. I mix using headphones so I probably miss a lot of the fact that I've added too much verb, Now that I have started to tweak it, I can hear the difference, the version that I have up at the moment is highly dense. I've cut it back a lot, spent more time eqing the drums/percussion.
 
Not sure what to do to add this rumbling roar that you feel that it needs Wook :)
And Tom, I am now watching Cirque du Soleil.  I had never seen it before, it is mindblowing. Also loving most of the music too. thanks for that.

No really my Genre, but I enjoyed hearing it. I can't give you any advice on the mix because I am no pro that's for sure. 
 
But I will offer you what I am hearing and my opinion, it sounds like the whole song/music needs to sound Wider or bigger, maybe louder a bit on everything but not obvious and maybe a little more spread on the audio to where it's not so much centered to give you that feel that your hearing something recorded in a theater. Well, I'm not describing compression or Reverb, I'm talking about, or ambience for that matter. I think what I am trying to say is something just doesn't sound right with the panning and it sounds too distant. 

Either way, like I said I'm no professional and this is not my Genre of music, I'm just telling you how I heard things. 
 
I really enjoyed hearing it either way, great stuff!!! Thanks for posting this, I liked it otherwise I wouldn't have commented on it, I just feel like it needs more power to the sound and like I said I'm no pro and no mix master so I don't know how you do that, those were just suggestions or ideas I mentioned earlier. 
 

this is a very cool tune...lots going on and it kept my interest all along the way...I would only add that I think the room for the kit was too big....
 
good work! 

It's a cool movie soundtrack.