Analyzing some of those, I think I can hear more of what is going on. I also really am enjoying that style, listening to it.
They are doing little pauses and polyrhythms in an otherwise actually very well-timed beat. The contrast between the beat and the violation of the beat is what gives it its flavor. There's a consistency to the pauses since things are looped in that style. It's like the beat version of microtonal music (heh, now I need to make some off-beat, microtonal music). A lot of the variations are also very subtle.
Listening to your track again, I think the part that wasn't quite capturing it was the synth, where it sounds a bit more random than loose, like it's not actually tied to anything, not returning to a sense of time like the referenced tracks you mentioned do.
You did a good job of creating an interesting track for sure though.
Thank you for linking that stuff! :)