I produce electronic music. These days production is all computer based, and tech knowledge gets you a long way. Also if you can learn tech skills you can probably also come to understand things like dynamics processing and frequency ranges well enough to get to the top of the game, in terms of production quality. Its one of the few things that I find to be a good mix of my creativity and tech aptitude (along with web design and games art).
Logic on Mac, Cubase if you're stuck with Windows, Native Instruments Massive is a pretty awesome synth (for beginners and pros) and Izotope Ozone for mastering. Logic has pretty much everything else you need included but if you go with Cubase or Ableton then you'll need to stock up on 3rd party plugins including a good EQ and freq analyser, good dynamics compressor and a decent sampler.
