Music From People Who Dislike Their Own Music

This is Ciarin Walsh in 1997: 

This is the same artist three years later: 

Instead of looking at both of these clips as drastically different songs, you'd understand the shift that took Deviant Electronics from Brainwashing Is Child's Play to Blunt Instruments if you view them as the same compositional concept attempted by two different kinds of artists. In the first, a catchy bass-driven dub/psytrance song is pursued with a predictable structural linearity that the artist seems reluctant to play with beyond the gradual removal and return of its more integral instrumental touches. Indeed, Oystadub is musically distinguished by its concept overtaking the artists ability and desire to play with a conventionally catchy - if well executed - hook. The artist that did Suspense Hypothesis is not similarly encumbered. 

The Ciarin Walsh of 2000 not only has a more confident and varied approach to his playstyle, he's internalized the lessons and influences of other genres. You don't just hear an underexplored dub-inspired bassline acting as a catalyst for the instrumental fluttering inherent to psytrance; you hear an IDM/DnB percussive hybrid adding layers to a more creative and transitional expression of psytrance and ambient expectations. An artist that was limited to rigid adherence to a musical concept became an artist for whom the concept is his to flexibly and manipulate. The skillful execution of his transitions, the seamless integration of genres and the astute improvisation with his instrumental choices don't just indicate a superior degree of capability; rather, it implies that the development of his skill is a consequence of his ability to individualize his play style in a way that simultaneously incorporates what he can do and what he listens to. I wouldn't be surprised if the Ciarin Walsh of 2000 matured as a consequence of developing a more varied range of quality music.