With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

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.

I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the live music I was making was really hectic and turning much more confrontational. So when I started working on Everything Ecstatic, that was very normal for me. I think it was a departure, but people read it as an escape from something, whereas every record I do is, I feel, a departure.

I like putting a lot of personal touches in the music.

I find the more I DJ, the more ideas I have and the more music I want to make.

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