I really love Yoste's work and his lyrics resonate with me a lot. Chihiro is my favorite of his, it makes me think of growing up: "The air was cool and now it burns my lungs" is my favorite line in the track.

Eden's really cool too! His latest EP is a good listen, rock+roll had the most impact on me:

ooh ive heard of SQ8L, will have to check them out. same with CMT bitcrusher, i mainly use TAL (too much tbh), how much different is the sound of them?

Eh well listening to them side by side now, there's not really a difference. But that's after having to adjust a couple settings on the TAL, CMT has a cleaner sound right from the start (I guess that's why I had the misconception). So I would say it's more about whether you prefer ease of use or flexibility with your settings.

Yes I do this a lot! Another trick that I use constantly is opening a track in my DAW, loading up Fabfilter Pro-Q and removing the mid (mono) channel from the song by going into M/S mode and turning the output pan completely right. You can use Audacity for this too and you can do it with stock plugins like Fruity Stereo Shaper. Then it only leaves the side (stereo) signal and usually I'll notice a lot of elements that I wouldn't have noticed before. It also usually removes the vocal and drums (not all the time) so then you can hear certain elements a lot more clearly.

I really like using Divinity by Porter Robinson as an example: https://clyp.it/e02rjit2 There is this one sound that hits around the fourth beat of each measure that is a lot clearer with the mono signal removed (the effect is actually almost entirely stereo, you can barely hear it if you remove the side signal). You can also hear the firework-sounding effect that's pitching down a lot more clearly too.

I may be misunderstanding this technique or not using correct wording but I started using it months ago and it really helps me out!

Create late at night at like 12am-3am(probably not for everyone). Don't masturbate, or release in general. Your sexual energy is one of the most powerful forms of energy that one can tap into to use for intention and creativity.

Most of those are designed to help you unwind which is important to get in the right headspace, and masturbation or having a girlfriend may unwind you but it has a way of killing your motivation. Sexual satisfcation makes your subconscious go 'life is good, I can chill now' lol. I've heard of some entrepreneurs giving up sex for a year for this specific reason

That's really interesting, I never thought of sexual energy as a creative aid until now and it makes sense!

Sleep deprivation is a very helpful way of getting in a more creative headspace. Madeon talks a lot about how he utilizes sleep deprivation and he has said that once a year he locks himself in his studio and spends 24 hours straight writing an EP. He says the creative frustration and sleep deprivation puts him in a "weird vulnerable state" (he actually wrote my favorite song of his doing this challenge). Deadmau5 talked about it for a bit in his masterclass and said a lot of his best ideas come at around 3-6am. He talked about it in this YouTube video w/ Steve Duda too: https://youtu.be/u3Gqj1MURco

"There's some real science to this shit" lol but like you said though, that method is not for everyone.

Get on a "artists to watch out for in 2018" list at the end of the year haha

I really want to produce+release a good remix by April and start putting my name out there. After that, a few more remixes by the end of the year. But I don't want to start releasing stuff until I feel I have the capability of making music that sounds somewhat professional, so that goal might have to be put on hold.

Other than that, just keep learning as much as I can.

I remade Chet Porter's remix of the Worlds Intro and would love any feedback on it! It was my first time mixing toms so I'm not sure if they turned out well or not. I also added some new elements into this remake that weren't in the original to put my own twist on it and add more depth to the track.

You could achieve something like that by running white noise through a filter and automating that filter. Put a low pass filter on your white noise and automate the cutoff to give it a sort of rise. You could also automate a high pass and low pass filter together to give it a sort of "sweeping" sound.