Such is the nature of the beast that everything becomes luke warm after it's been flogged for a while.  Recently, I saw two of my friends Juan and Alex crank out an excellent set of minimal tekno.  The weird thing was, it wasn't really minimal tekno - but a combination of many styles which, having listened to so many minimal tracks over the past couple of years, I was delighted to hear something that was not constrained by the boundaries of genre specifications.  So it gave me inspiration to renew my search for the sound I'm crazy about.  I don't think it can really be articulated in words - it HAS to be a feeling which resonates between yourself and the music that you are creating or are ushering into the consciousness of the people who are listening.  Hmmm not a standard burger and chips opening foray into the blog world, but what the hell.