Yes you are right and I was unclear in what I meant. By tracks never reporting themselves I mean the overall ambient sound never repeating. The elements of the music randomly combined which is the sort of thing Eno also likes to do.
In one installation he had many speakers placed around the venue, each one only contributing one certain element of the ambient soundscape affect and depending on where you were standing you got very different mixes of each element so the music would have changed as you walked around. I pinched the idea and did a very similar thing in an installation. And to worked amazingly well.
I suppose if he has got some dark elements in the music there is going to be a time when they are all are being played together and not much of anything else. So then the music might appear spooky. This new synth from NI 'Thrill' is pretty cool in this mode. See the other organic pad thread in here.