You can march into the studio with a sense of strength and/or purpose...

Or you can meander in hoping for the best...

All depends on the desire to produce...

I can see the point of the thread, there being the difficulty of using different influences and combining these with what is classed as Techno elements, which can be your only starting point, and then this being classified in the other genre and not techno even though this was your initial building block...

Doing it and finding out is party to the innovation process... (imo)

Really enjoyed the posts in this thread by the way... gets you thinkin about the future...