Quote Originally Posted by shpongled
Well I'm pretty new to techno production, but this is useful in other types of edm so I imagine it will be useful here too...tune your kick drum to the rest of your bassline.
You can get some dissonance if your kick drum and baseline are out of tune
yep. actually this goes for perc like bongos and congas as well, sanres too, i think. yet this is sth. i think of but often leave aside....when the flow gets me, y'know. you can use analogx autotune (free)

http://www.analogx.com/

to tune to a key or antares autotune or
gsnap (poor man's autotune :))

http://www.gvst.co.uk/gsnap.htm