Metope (Michael Schwanen) is an electronic music producer who has produced many singles on Sender Records and
Areal Records, of which he is the head.
His style is associated with German
minimal techno
Minimal techno is a subgenre of techno music. It is characterized by a stripped-down aesthetic that exploits the use of repetition and understated development. Minimal techno is thought to have been originally developed in the early 1990s by Detro ...
and
microhouse
Microhouse, buftech or sometimes just minimal, is a subgenre of house music strongly influenced by minimalism and 1990s techno.
History
Microhouse has its roots in the minimal techno, bitpop (both developed in the early 1990s), and house (dev ...
.
His music features quirky melodies mixed with
music
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...
influences comparable to that of
Ada,
who Schwanen is credited with discovering.
Metope, however, is known more for his "
timbral
In music, timbre (), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound of a musical note, sound or tone. Timbre distinguishes sounds according to their source, such as choir voices and musical instruments. ...
richness" than for his melody or structure.
Metope describes his music as "seeming to long for a transformation of their digital being into flesh, and that by bit reduction they attempt to imitate life".
References
External links
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Label website
Living people
German record producers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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