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Hey I really appreciate that you took the time to get the hi-quality version. Yes it was mastered at Z-Trading LTD, Espoo. Cost me 85 € by the way..  .. but I think it was wort it.
Yes.. us artists are hard to please and I agree with your comments about the snare rolls and hihats.. by the way, I've written pure breakbeat & drum n' bass aswell so I know what you mean. Usually I do spice up my trance tracks with breakbeats and it's my advice to other artists who ask me how to give that extra spark. 
In this particular track the strings/pads are very dominant and the breakbeats didn't really work well (seemed like I'd forced them there) so I left them out. I worked closely to achieve the wide stereo image you mentioned.
It's good we make tracks to please artists aswell. I mean, if they please you, then it's bloody likely it will please "Joe Average". On the other hand, I doubt that "Joe Average" will think that OMG, another hihat/clap pattern... I can't stand it.. anyway u get the point.
It's quite funny actually.. I performed a little test a little while ago to some friends who don't have anything to do with electronic music or music at all as artists. I put some commercial trance (Trance 2000) in the stereo and I asked a couple of questions such as how do they hear "claps" or "hihats"... no matter how I explained they listened and couldn't understand what I meant. They could understand the rhytm and "dum ts", but I bet that if same clap & hihat samples were used in every track they wouldn't have noticed since the melodies change with every track... so people who don't know much about music (= majority of the ppl who buy) don't stop to think these things..
Anyway, thanks for your feedback (again ).
Club Zero
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