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Most of my stuff doesn't get a lot of plays either, except for a few tracks here and there. That's cool though, for years I released tracks on Ray Gun and Indulge and my label boss Oliver Kapp only accepted Detroit-style techno and the occasional oldschool electro track, now I can do what I want and just follow my inspiration when I'm in the studio... and it's not that my old releases on vinyl and CD were highly successful, we sold a couple of thousand records over a period of 8 years and that was that.
About your tracks, well, four of them (Disconnected (Original Mix), I Wanna Be (DnB Remix), Insects and Untitled) are in my DJ rotation list and I already played them on various occasions, they're really good and people always get off on them. It's all about the context and how you present them. The world of music has changed a lot during the last 30 years but there's one thing that hasn't changed: If you want to get somewhere in terms of public recognition, you need to promote your stuff. We did that a lot in the old days when we released various records and even back then, it was difficult to get people interested because there simply was too much good stuff coming out. Fast-forward to today, things got even worse promotion-wise. Millions of people of all walks of life make music and release it via SoundCloud, YouTube, Bandcamp, etc., but of course getting it out in the open alone is not enough, it's a lot of work to make people take notice and create a fanbase, specially if you aren't fixed to just one or two styles of music. People want to label things and prefer music and musicians that are predictable (even though they would never openly admit it), many of them feel overwhelmed if you release a techno track today and some ambient drone thing tomorrow or otherwise do not meet their expectations of how "their" music should sound like.
I've been making music for almost all my life now with traditional instruments or electronic gear, it's part of my soul and I won't stop anytime soon (the occasional composer's block notwithstanding) just because I don't get much clicks/likes/plays. We both are a more or less insignificant part of the music industry but sure as hell no insignificant part of music as a whole.
So many possibilities just fucking with time and dirt. 
