There is some amazingly produced musics out there from all sorts of styles, the key is to listen to all sorts not just alot of the shitty techno out now, and put those influences into your own shit as we all know.
I hear so many pieces where Yeh the compression might be good, a full sound but the material grabs about as much of my mind as a boiled egg. Theres so much shit like that out there, but looking much further and their are beautiful musics.
Thank the lord for Plaid, Errorsmith, Geoff White, Alex Under, Maurizio, Inigo Kennedy and Gorecki, and !! Detroit Underground !! etc etc KLASHNEKOFF / Manuva