I just make music using my own instruments, or augmented by loops from Looperman, or else solely through loops
Guitar, bass, kazoo, stylophone, lots of loops from around the world
Garageband, Audacity.
Korg Electribe EMX 1
Boss Micro BR 4 Track
New PiL album (not all that!), Mumford and Sons album (same as the last one...), my Neil Young playlist (smoother than a waxed rodent)
'Modern Life is Rubbish' - Blur
'The Trials of Van Occupanther' - Midlake
'Spirit of Eden' - Talk Talk
'Arthur' - The Kinks
'Sound Affects' - The Jam
Inertia, mainly....
Musically; The Kinks, Roni Size, Blur, Aphrodite,
... a mess of styles and genres; often messy, poorly produced... but it's mine. And that's what counts.
slack diligently.