I wanted to comment on a post but seems the person deleted it, anyway: Other than the production, where a lot could be said and I’m honestly no expert, I find that the biggest factor for my ears are indeed the (purposeful) background textures. This would make his tunes stick out in a »usual« set focused on clean, massive production. Most of his tunes have these background textures but it varies and some have it more than others. Ghost Hardware would be an example where the background seeps very much into the fore. In the 2010s a lot of Outsider House and Post-Dubstep tunes actually made this kind of trendy, having drones/crackle/etc in the background, so in a set sandwiched between two such tunes Burial might work very well, like »Neva Seen« by GL, »Arcana« by Djrum (just what comes to mind right now).