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I'm going to give you a quick technical overview while I have a spare moment, just because I can. 
Overall, your mix is lacking insterest to me, mostly in that things just seem to drag on. You need more punch, so try compressing the kick with a longer attack time to add more dynamic movement.
The bass could come up in level a bit, and could perhaps also sound punchier. With everything sounding as smooth as it does now, there's no real distinction between any of the instruments, hence no dynamic interest.
You'll have to work on mixing, particularly give each of the instruments their own space. Everything sounds so blurry and washed out, especially in the z-axis (back to front). I feel you could use more reverb on the pads to separate them apart more from the instruments near the front of the mix (kick, bass, etc.).
Perhaps try giving your leads some more presence around ~5 kHz, to give them that extra edge and just to let them sit on top of the mix a bit more rather than being so lost inside it.
Pan some sounds a little more to the right too (some of the percussions perhaps?), as your mix is fairly off balance at the moment.
And watch that muddiness level. Use high pass filters to give the kick and bass more breathing space, and just to separate the padding more from the synths.
As I mentioned before, everything just sounds too washed out, without any things standing out to make this interesting for me. The melody entering at 2:41, for instance, has a similar reverb setting to the backing pad, in turn placing it at the back of the mix. It creates too much sound at this point on the z-axis, whereas ideally you want the lead, being the focus of the track, to sit closer to the front. I want to hear a memorable melody singing to me, rather than being washed into the back of the mix where it's barely audible.
Of course, none of these points will apply if you used them for an artistic reason, but I just feel they are some of the things that would make this work better. 
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