I don’t think it’s primarily about the mix. Pretty sure that a really good composition mixed like this would make it through the review process. The problem here is that the music is rather repetative and monotonuous, there is no harmonic development, chord progression, no melody, the track does really take you anywhere and the stomping quality with that repetative phrase gets annoying after a while. I imagine the reviewer thought that the entire track would need to be rewritten including new harmonies, melody, etc. - that’s why it was hard rejected.
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