Thanks a lot, glad to see another Hotel Dusk inspired submission around here too !
Since creation is built on available resources and limitations, it's pretty interesting to see that from a same mutual inspiration our final results end up quite different (which is nice to see different flavors and different interpretations since yours was very great to listen to also !).
But yeah, if you have the occasion, bringing in real instruments can drive your creativity and music ideas in pretty different ways so I can really recommend it at some point !