heres a tip of mine from the other day about multisample wobbles inn drumrack
http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=174867
could be useful as a start
layering the drum hits is essential imo...for the snare you can layer 3, one crackin/clappy, one phat (even a kick), one with a nice reverb tail, all tuned together...i use 2 kicks usually
keep it changing..do several variations on your drum pattern and set them to clip launch on their own...introduce new sounds in the second half, keep em guessing...if your listener can expect whats coming for the next 8 bars? and then it is as anticipated = kinda yawny brostep
sidechaining your kick and wobble is good, esp if its a nice low wobble..to avoid that low end mud...you can eq them apart too
to me? vocal samples, an acapella, or at least some dubby vox hits, will humanize the piece
a downbeat skank of some kind coming in intermittently gets things bouncing
tom cosm piles on the fx in this fastpaced thriller of a tut
http://www.youtube.com/user/cosmcosm?feature=watch
post up your wips if you want, i for one will listen
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