"as the sound quility you have to get out of it is unsurpassed by any other style of music." ... can't be true, bloody hard to get it to sound right but very few tracks have amazing production, it's always a compromise, particularly in the more melodic tracks.

Anyway, silly question in the first place I reckon, you can put all your skill into creating either. If you've got no musical background writing melodic trance is going to be a bit tricky to make it really interesting though and if you've not got a good library of samples then making techmo is going to be hard work.

I find that it's impossible to do either without getting toa point where you hate what you've done for some reason takes a couple of months after writing a track to be able to listen to it objectively.

Never released any techno mind you and got a few trance tracks kicking around, but that's only because I've been experimenting with techno for the past year but i've been fiddling around with trance since I was born.

What I have noticed is that after producing so much dance music, getting a chunky mix right for a pop tune is a piece of piss, we've done this rock ballad which musically was really tricky but sound wise the mix went like a dream ... sounds a lot better than 95% of the stuff coming out of pro studios for demo's and if only I could play the guitar like a genius instead of like me then it'd be quite lovely...

Have I just waffled?