100% agree with jamie.

Nerds ruin any music. a good example, i have a friend who spent three years at university.. loves his techno, loves his house and drum n bass. he knows a shit load about phase shaping, wave structure, he's written his own programs on his graphing calculator to deal with some complex shit...

he has yet to finish a piece of music that doesnt sound like it was painted by numbers.

As for listening to other music... you damn right, thats the KEY MOFO'ing word. MUSIC its like reading onlly mills and boon, you'll get a wet pussy for a guy in a suit, but not for good looking guys in generaL.

read all the books and you can get a slippy lips for any kind of fella.

listen to all the music, man thats why i love techno, it doesnt **** about when it comes to taking influences, there isnt a big broo ha ha about it like the sort of bollox sting comes out with 'yeah man i went to the jungle and found a guy with a flute' sod off you turd. techno artists do that anyway, except we use pots and ****ing pans and junkyards and sample CDS and ripped dialogue off the radio and the tv and films and we synthesize it and sample it.

Techno has a massively broad pallete of musical influences, and those that dont use them are infants.