I have listened to Xenobiotic. I like it very much. I think you have great potential for creating electronic music.
If you'd like to, I can give you some technical advice on your producing technique. Things which you might not be aware of yet:
- use extremely polished EQs
separately on every instrument
- use compressors and expanders
separately on every instrument
- use more effects generated from noise to join parts together ("squiissshh" and stuff like that)
- use percussions like rimshots and shakers
- use crash cymbals to separate parts
- use more effects like delays, reverbs, sometimes chorus, flanger and phaser too (perhaps on the sends of a mixer so you can easily experiment with them on each channel)
- use multiple samples in the place of one (e.g. try 3 different kinds of claps together, or a clap + a rimshot etc; 2 open hihats, one for mid-eq gain, one for the highs)
- use 2 separate instruments for low-bass (below 150Hz) and mid-bass (around 250-300Hz); they may even play different rhythms to be more exciting
- use LFOs, filter and volume envelopes and automation to make a song much more "alive"
- learn sidechaining to compress the bassdrum and the bass together
- use some tool in the end for mastering; something like izotope ozone or a simple multiband compressor (I prefer the latter)
These are some of the things that make an electronic music (and basically everything you hear on the radio and in the clubs today -- not only EDM but RnB and stuff like that) sound professional.
Regarding software, my personal favorite are Cubase and Reason (both have different benefits and I use them in sync through rewire) and the Waves bundle. They are all very professional and used by many big names in the industry. It's not about the software though but the knowledge and technique that you gain over the years but professional software is much more flexible which gives you more freedom and that helps a lot.
Keep producin' mate!
