Zahn said something about enjoying yourself, thats the key I think. Too many people are trying too hard these days, its when you try too hard you end up feeling desperate when things don’t work, ive been in that situation and it lead me to go for a folder of sampled loops which already sound good and had to change them over so slightly to avoid been caught by the sample police. In other words, I copped out = There are only so many ways you can cook a casserole with the same ingredients

Try running a things differently, softsynths in stand alone or build something in reaktor. Use Cubase as a sample manipulator not a sequencer and make some weird sounds and see what other weird sounds work with them. Set the tempo to 280 instead of 140, drop all preconceived ideas about how well it handles in the mix.

Take some obscure psychoactive drugs and lock yourself in the house for a good 12 hours searching for that spiritual place where you can actually see the music as a set of complex geometric shapes and waves of tiny molecules vibrating in synchronicity