the only way to produce techno full time iis to go on the dole. that way your rent gets paid, you get a bit of cash to pop outside to get some cigs every week and you can lock yourself away. but this isn't particualrly making a living is it? i think in non-commercial music you have to do lots of things to be able to do it full time. i have my djing, that brings in the cash and enables me to do everything else i want to do during the week - the site, the studio (but none of that brings in any money at all really). but what i suppose it does do is increase awareness of what i'm involved in, which then helps get a few dj gigs.

i'd say if you wanted to sit in a studio and produce music on a full-time basis, i'd need to be producing something in that studio that isn't techno. perhaps music for adverts or soundtracks.

shitty i know, but it's a reality.