This is pretty solid. Would dance.

The more powerful your computer is, the better you can get the sounds you want to play with before you can record any thing.

That being said, I tend to get my sound first before i can get the music. To me, getting the right feeling in the layer i wanted to add was always the toughest part than actually writing down notes.

I still think it's the toughest part in electronic music because it has just as much as an emotional impact as the notes that are played.

If  i can get a sound that fits with the song, then for some reason the notes i play just come out. But i have to be careful because, some times the notes get weird the larger my note range spans. So it's a balance of understanding your sound and how far it can take you with your music and what purpose of that sound as it resides in your song.

I try to layer in my own samples.

Gives me some level of control when i am in the mix.

I personally would hate to have to sit down and deliver music with in a time frame. Striking a balance of keeping the music and art for myself, and potentially gaining profit, seems biased towards ways that i am not willing to give into just so that i can make music.

If life is truly about balance, i am ok working a regular job and jamming out when those obligations are dealt with. But, i'd hopefully be in a career that would keep me stimulated enough to not just walk out.

This thread, like others similar and in approach to this entire forum topic, boils down to how well you understand yourself.

There's this line that i got some where and it pertains to engineering: "if given enough time, you can fix the problem."
well take that into the account of being creative and you have your answer. You either do like ZAU and become professional or do it as a serious hobby (or hobby).

only you can decide the depth of which you seek. once you've decided, start working towards what ever you may want. or you may just want to do the things just to simply do the thing with out much goal (the later suggestion is suggested if you're keen to not being attached and have an unconditional love).

In the main drop, the second part probably could of used some variation to enhance that droned out lead. The bass and the drums stay the same.

The droned out lead doesn't have any real resolution and is just left hanging (you can call it intentional but you didn't actually resolve it's existence in any way shape or form and just let it die).

The break in the middle should of had less bass, to create more of an impact on the second drop.

I think your bass synth and kick clash to much. You might have not done enough eq compensation and thought that the side chain would be a better choice (always go with better eq than side chain. The side chain enhances good eq). But, i do like how the kick and bass feel, just needs to be mixed better

Can't hear cymbals, if any.

I think this would work in a DJ set, but it depends on what you're wanting to do.

You need to tighten up your eq, reconsider your reference frames for writing music (4,8,16,32,64 bars) and be consistent with in that frame (you can break things later, but if you're using a consistent idea, you get consistent results that can be quantified and used for progress assessment later on. then moved onto experimentation with greater precision and accuracy).

I overall like the feeling of the track, but i don't know if i'd want to listen to this all the way through. That's why i think this would work best in a DJ set, because I'd just play a section of your song and then transition it over. And I would pick the second part of the song, safe for the low cut.

After i think about it, you should of switched the first and second drops. ie, second is first and first is now second.

Hope this helps.

*edit* i'd consider this to be dubstep, post dubstep, and because of the drums i want to say like a dark garage...

You just need to bench press your way to creativity.

lol.

I don't have time to do much creating in the musical realm any more. Mechanical engineering studies does that to you. But I do play the guitar every now and again.

I actually haven't made any songs in like the past 8 months or so. But I have songs that are on the complete and are being mixed.

Going to school has focused me on different aspects and gain an appreciation for silence and letting things work out. Often times the variable you haven't accounted for, and the one that needs to be removed, is yourself. Once you remove yourself from the emotional attachment you have with the problem(s), then you can see things from a different angle. (take that with a grain of salt and maybe a few discussions)

I also drink tea. I don't smoke weed any more because it doesn't help me do any thing besides relax and get super lazy. Besides, it didn't actually make my music, ideas, or perspective any better.

I also play some amount of video games, but not nearly as the level i did in high school. The more serious I'd want to be into games, the more serious i should be towards my music. Given more time and resources available, I'd dubstep all day and night.

Stick with the coffee mate lol.

Transitional chords are huge for me. I tend to center my bass lines and melodies around blue's, minor, sort of feel. then I throw in more of the iconic notes that make the scale it's name to cause tension or transition into the end of the bar or section.

Look into resolution as well.

Look into modes.(very common and effective)

It's tough to say what is interesting. You just gotta write something that makes you move man. Chances are it might make others move as well.