I cite inspirations in the tags, doubt this could pass for synthwave proper hence i posted it in techno as opposed to new wave.

At ten seconds in the lead starts, it's a grime one and there's no kick involved yet. I'm not entirely sure how this particular quality reflects on the balance of the mix as a whole since i wanted said instrument to sound gritty and abrasive, imo i may have done a bit too much to tame it in fact as it's rather more wide and loud prior to compression and eq cuts. Perhaps that's not at all what you meant though, i don't know.

Harshness and clashes i'm just going to file under stylistic choices as i'm rather pleased with them and while i fully appreciate these elements can annoy some listeners, they're certainly free and welcome to voice their disapproval, that's unfortunately not my problem since i can neither please everyone nor do i ever plan to.

Anyhoo, sorry you had a bad time and thanks for listening.

Still working on getting the hang of reason 9, whole track is now in the same key including that kick.

Glad you like.

She's worse then we imagined.