Alright, that last part I miss and is entirely reasonable, so I'll give you a legit response.
I personally started by making drum and bass, simple drums and bass, because I wanted to understand not only the structure of a song, but to also understand the software I was a using, I then released it primarily to whore but also to get a sense of where the music itself placed. Did people consider it drum and bass or was I building something else?
Then I delved into what some would consider down tempo because that's what inspired me.
See, every one artist is inspired by something. Actors and filmmakers steal from other actors and filmmakers all the time, only because it best represents the material they want to showcase; if the material sucks, they crash and burn.
A lot of what I make I don't think is experimental, it's just stuff I like to make and it's difficult for more people to understand. That doesn't make them idiots or me a radical freedom of expression douche, at the end of the day the song just makes me happy.
