A couple of years ago UK producer James Blake took dubstep - a dance genre usually accompanied with massive raves - and used it to quietly express his innermost feelings.
It saw him nominated for the prestigious Mercury prize.
Blake has an international reputation for injecting soul and feeling into electronic music, but it wasn't always this way.
He started playing piano at the age of six, was obsessed with jazz, and actually hated electronic music for many years.
"It was because the electronic music I had been exposed to by radio just like everybody else was shit," he says.
That all changed with the arrival of dubstep.
"Suddenly for me [I] found the groove within myself," he says.
Blake initially made his name as a producer but then began adding his voice to tracks repeating the same line over and over again.
"It was interesting to me, almost like an experiment, to see can I sing a lyric which means virtually nothing to me and see what happens after that," he says.
"That song finds meaning with other people and it finds meaning with me. If you repeat a lyric over and over again it resonates with you in some way."
The musician who is famed for working alone in his bedroom says the musical change came about because of a change in his personal life.
"My face won't show it, but I'm happy," he says. "I'm happy with the way things are going.
"On the first record I wasn't… There was something missing romantically. I was hopeless."
But now he has met someone he identifies with, and all is well.
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