It's ****ed up this problem.

Do you try and stick within the genre or do you try and expand the genre.

If you expand too far you risk writing music that's got a niche audience of one, but if you stick solidly within the genre you'd better be producing a quality piece of work, particularly with an established sound like techno otherwise what's the point in writing it.

And it's always tempting to write for the more rocking / hard end of any genre for me for some reason ....

pretty confident i've just managed to wibble and make no sense at all, but i've written it now so i'm gonna click submit and see what happens.