The song structures are yours, and I won't suggest you really change
those, but you might want to consider humanizing things a bit.
That is one of my biggest complaints with the age of electronic music.
Drum machines are fine and well, but I personally think every song using
one pretty much sounds like a drum machine song (no, I'm not a drummer).
If you're serious about releasing a CD, I'd look into finding a drummer
to
sit in with you for a recording session. There are plenty of people out
there
looking for some action, and you'll learn loads about recording and
probably
have a good time. If that's not an option due to space/time
constraints,
I'd shoot for adding in some drum fills/nuances here and there. These
can
be big fills or just simple double-hits on some portions. Maybe just
running
that track through a different effect during certain portions of the
song
would liven it up.
Another thing I'd watch out for is usage of the stock sounds. This can
lead
to music that sounds sort of computer generated. Maybe that's the
intent,
in which case cool, but otherwise, seek out other sounds, make your own,
or just warp the ones you have available. I'm sure you've noticed how
you can pick out the keyboards and sometimes even the exact patch
being used on songs and especially TV shows/commercials.
I hope some of this might be useful to you, but then again, it was free
advice, and you of course get what you pay for, right?
Anyhow, keep it up, and since I'm feeling in the sharing/self-promoting
mood, you can check out my mp3s at:
http://support.data-io.com/~chelste/sl/sl.html
Later,
eEc