Minimisation comes to everyone at some point.

I find it liberating myself.
The temptation in techno is just to keep wacking in more and more crap, but you end up with a dead messy, flat mix.

Less is more is the old saying, and it`s true.

Most bands have what? 5 instruments? Drums, 2 guitar, bass, vocals.

Even an orchestra, though many instruments, what they play, and where it sits can be split down into few parts really.

Plus minimisation makes you focus on strong musicality, rather than boshing in as many loops and crap as possible.