ask me this once a week and i would give you a different spiel each week about where my priorities lay
this week... i am mostly trying to perfect that particular blend of influences and styles which come forth in "hipnotic" tracks, a personal blend which has been brewing slowly in the background since i started producing. it falls into 2 main categories...
the first is loosely psy-chill.... its heavily informed by that scene, at least.
this i would describe as mostly a mix of ambient - downtempo - breakbeat - dub - gospel. key features are that it is organic - spiritual - nodding - and generally suitable for getting stoned to. roughly speaking, i'm aiming to make something a bit like a collab between solar fields, ott, the cinematic orchestra, and sly and the family stone.
the second is vaguely ambient dnb. key features here are a sense of spaceflight : incorporating a sci-fi / futuristic aesthetic, and a sense of floating spaciousness combined with a sense of high speed motion. aims to be vaguely like a mix of the future engineers, omni trio, blame, goldie, and fourier wave device.
the "soliptic" goa/psy stuff is pretty much on the back burner atm... altho i'll inevitably knock the odd one out every now and then. same goes for heavier techsteppy dnb... i'm no good at it, but i make at least a couple a year, just cos i want to / have to.