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Hit em: how a dream about raves, graves and slime led Matmos’s Drew Daniel to a new music genre

While Daniel slept, a girl introduced him to ‘super crunched-out sounds’ at a wild tempo. After he shared the details on X, producers are making his fantasies into reality

There’s jittery, glitchy tracks that are almost gabber-like in their intensity, there’s some muscular industrial-leaning stuff; others recall a wonky jungle vibe, while some artists have even managed to spin it into jazz or ambient pieces. As one half of Matmos he’s spent decades making left-field electronic music that pulls from all kinds of unconventional sources, whether capturing the sounds of surgical procedures or recording skulls, teeth and spinal cords to spin into experimental techno. Aside from being a bit of fun that has led to a surge in spontaneous creativity, and an organic musical moment that happened outside the industry and the algorithm, it’s also a display of social media at its best, during a time when it feels largely like a cesspit.

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