Totally, agree with holotropik, listen to as much music as possible, see what inspires you, There are alot of subtle things in tracks that you may not pick up on until you really listen closely. The velocity suggestion was also a great one, especially if you are going for a loopy, club tool kind of sound, you can make a loopy techno tune sound totally interesting without the use of obvious edits just by f**king with the velocity of the hits.