very fun listening
I love the buzzbuild ~ :50, and the damp fxt :45 and you've done a great job at getting the depth pulse feeling out there.
As far as finishing, some tricks I know you can pull off are:
>if it's slightly faster then a backbeat/sometimes-offbeat bassline would fit ;
>the clear surprise 1:30 really doesn't sound quite right unless it opens up into maybe a smooth siren chorus (like...2:40 in NGAP 83548, which this reminds me of) or just open up in general for a bit ;
>as much as you can do to seperate the 'real' instruments with clarity will also allow other sounds to blend the way this vocal and buzzbazz seem to ;
>--still listening on loop, and again the 1:30 build really has to go somewhere. maybe it's the spot where we figure out the rest of that lyriclady's words :P ;
> I feel that (on the listener's side) It's best to have each sound in it's own 'spot'--where the sounds don't beat at the exact same time as each other--, and the build does pretty exactly that. When 2 tracks would beat at the same time, you can go back from the point they'd collide to fade out/down the first track or write the instrument to exclude the layered beats. If the tracks soudn cool together, I'd go with the second option and write the incoming track to have the desired sound. I don't know if you're thinking like that already or not, but if you aren't, doing so will instantly pump clarity by about 100%. Makes sure your sounds -never- get garbled.
<> and all's left to say is congraphutations on the sign and keep your sound sounding so good!