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I disagree that possessing a natural gift for music is required for creating solid electronic music, though as with anything it doesn't hurt. Take Astral Projection: boring and unoriginal, but it sounds really good. The most popular music tends to be simple yet exceptionally well mixed.
Familiarity with sound is what practice yields. What's needed is the ability to recognize that which both pleases the ear and interests the mind. Acquiring the technical savvy necessary realizing such sounds (electronically or otherwise) is a laughable hurdle compared to the lifelong challenge of honing one's musical listening skills.
I believe anyone can become a proficient amateur audio engineer but not without passion. My advice is to invest in a decent pair of flat-response phones and really listen to the music you wish to imitate. Spend more time listening to music that already makes you dance than aimlessly fiddling with your own masterpiece-of-the-day. Listen for something specific and then find a way to replicate it with whichever tools you have. In your downtime, read a lot about acoustics, a little about music.
I can't even recall how I got to this thread. Oops, I'm a dork.
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