Thank you! I recently ventured out into the freelance world after nearly a decade of post-school shit jobs and attempting to be an artsy fartsy avant garde arteeeest. Some of the stuff I'm putting here was written for specific projects which required short formats for a segment. A lot of the other stuff was written to showcase versatility. I've found people won't hire you for a project unless you can demonstrate that you've already written something in the exact style they want. I still haven't found professional niche yet, so I've been writing a bunch of short vignettes to cover more stylistic bases.

All that said, I totally agree. It's more satisfying writing something longer and more developed. A lot of what I find interesting in music has less to do with the raw musical material, and more with how it is manipulated and developed. If I can ever get through this "how the heck am I going to pay my rent, oh crap" phase of my life, I would love to work on some longer pieces.

Thanks for the great feedback! This gives me a lot think about. I agree with a lot of it. Here's some of what I was thinking to give these choices some context:

The quiet drums were partially a mix choice based on the style from the 1960's. Amping up bass and percussion is something that people started doing a lot more starting with Disco and moving forward to Hip Hop and other synth based production. That said, I could probably pull the reverb down a bit in the congas and maybe compress them a bit more to make them pop. I'll play with it.

The Major 7th chord ending was made to lead back to the beginning of the track again. It was supposed to be good for looping, but I admittedly may have missed the mark on this one. Here's a sample of the track looped out once so you can hear what it should sound like.

http://www.bryanteoh.com/get_fabulous_looped.mp3

That said, I was also hoping it would stand alone as an ending by itself. This version of a jazz standard has a similar sort of thing at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxqRhR1c6Wo

Please hit me with suggestions, though. A lot of commentary I've gotten here criticize the abrupt endings. They're supposed to be short and sweet and loopable (each track is distributed on my blog with split intro and loop files so you can just loop the loopable bit as long as necessary for the game/video/whatever), but it's come up enough that I feel like I may be doing it wrong. OR maybe I should post tracks already looped out so it's obvious how they work? Donno.

Thanks! Every time I do a track like this I learn an awful lot about production. Who knew that making something sound like cheesy 60's soft pop was so hard?

thank you!