LOL - that's my beef with the Snoman book: there's a really interesting chapter on Making Techno or whatever where he basically says "um, techno musicians break all the rules of traditional production" but the rest of the book seems to be based on the trad recording studio model: WRITE TUNE -> PROGRAM SOUNDS -> RECORD SOUNDS CLEAN -> MIX DOWN WITH MINIMAL EQ/EFFECTS.

To me that's kind of old-school now people are making whole tracks in one program on a PC - I know a bunch of producers (including myself) who are mashing that model up a bit - like... using effects on the whole mix to generate new sounds that you can then drop back in as samples, that kind of thing.

So yeh, I'm interested to know about alternative approaches like the Mixing With Your Mind thing :)