ive just got back from me travells around the world...... now that im back i really wanna get into the production side of techno. ive got a decent laptop and got some pirate software when i was in bangkok - reason 3, ableton live, reaktor 5. i wanna start makin hard/funky and acid techno sounds and hopefully get a live set together sometime in the future!

do any of you boys and girls have any advise for a new boy???

id love to get some hardware at somestage........
what other bits n pieces would be good to go along with the software i already have???

any advice well appreciated - nice one :)