Well, I know everyone likes to go on about rule breaking, but production does have certain rules, it`s that simple.
Techno especailly, is quite a constrained medium for the most part, when it comes to club punter.
So when I answer qeustions on here I answer from a techno context.

Come over to idmforums.com and I`ll talk all day about undanceable time signatures, using multiband ringmodulation instead of EQ, and destructive processing.