Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
I think that people just got too "in" to, and too focused on techno.
MAking it and listening to it as a producer is a dangerous place to be because you lose a point of reference, and just end up being self referential.
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There is a cure though, namely sitting down in the studio and doing something in a different style, like a hip-hop / reggae / whatever track. By trying a different approach to making music, you gain experience and get new ideas from it. If you sit there thinking "I'm gonna make a techno track" it's not going to sound new, it's going to sound generic. But if you free yourself from this thinking, there is a much greater chance that you'll wind up with something original that hasn't been heard anywhere before... Listening to a wide array of music also broadens your music-making imagination and gives you ideas for your techno tracks ;)