I feel like there's a young generation of producers who are taking inspiration from dubstep but trying to push it in other directions.

I think the most important thing for me is putting out records that document ideas.

I feel like there's a young generation of producers who are taking inspiration from dubstep but trying to push it in other directions.

I find that people in American are often much more purist. If you're into hip-hop, you're totally into hip-hop - you wear the uniform, that's all you listen to. If you're a goth, you're totally a goth - you've got, like, 4,000 piercings, black hair, you really go for it.

I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.

I thought Everything Ecstatic was the happiest of them all - hence the "ecstatic" name. The whole concept behind that was total out-and-out euphoric mania. I think tracks like "Smile Around The Face" are the jolliest things I've ever done, really. But one of the things I like about my music is the fact that it's instrumental, so there are no lyrics to guide people.

When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.