applying this to techno music is incredible since you can use the scale to layer a bunch of sonic timbres to get your harmony rather than writing uber-complex melodies. Instead the complexity comes through using an array of sounds (including percussion) to fit the scale and it will make the whole track sound cohesive and like its going somewhere. even those wild effects and foundsounds can be tuned or emphasized to the key of the track.
this should also change the way you use the EQ as you can start thinking about it in terms of scales/notes/octaves and you will get the most natural and musical results... there is a reason the spectrum analyzers tell you the notes along with frequencies
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one other thing i like to do is form the main chord im using with my kick/snare/perc/hat. so the kick would be tuned to the lowest fundamental of the chord and so on up the specturm. this goes a very very long way in to the way a track is perceived. you will get much deeper musical impressions by taking the theory of the masters into a modern context and application
of course there are plenty of techno artists (i think?) who dont know or care about this stuff which is cool and everything. but usually those tracks dont evoke a whole lot of feeling in me, the human brain/emotions respond much more vividly to things based in classical theory IMHO