I don't think it's odd because a lot of my inspiration has come from dancefloor music - the major early influence was dub. In the years before I did Nocturnal Emissions a good night out might mean taking in half a dozen punk bands, or a handbag disco, or a Northern soul joint, or a gay disco, or a reggae - anywhere cheap that stayed open late and tolerated scruffy arty types, I'd be in there getting wrecked. And I think a lot of the NE sound has come from that disorientation of being out late, having your ears ringing as you leave the place, and having frazzled paranoid ideas the day after wondering what happened to your brain cells. So one and off I've done tracks using repetitive beat music, I steered well away from this for a few years, but sometimes I return to that line of investigation. Nocturnal Emissions samples have been recycled plenty of times, just like all that old stuff ends up in club mixes.
Music is a thing that is never finished - it's there to be played with.
Whatever I've done has been ahead of prevailing trends, I'm a pioneer. I can collaborate with people but this doesn't mean I have to marry them. But being a pioneer means that you're often dealing in ideas that other musicians haven't got the concept of yet - and that tends to isolate you. A lot of musicians just don't grasp what's going on, they're still acclimatizing to being in a post-modern information age, and they're just cottoning on to the idea that nowadays you aren't just making music, you're also manipulating symbols. And what's happened in the rap, noise, rave, techno, ambient, junglist explosion has taken them by storm and they want to be a part of that.