last night i pulled out my old breakbeat records for nostalgia's sake and spent a good 4 hours mixing. at the end i realized that my mixing style is the way it is because of the way breaks records are structured - i use a lot of eq and careful layering to keep the basses from clobbering each other, and i mix into lots of builds and drops. i think it's also deeply affected the way i lay out my tracks, even my techno tracks.

has anybody else come to techno from another genre? if so, do you find that the influences you picked up there help or hurt with techno?