It’s Time for Electronic Music to Turn Its Dreams Into Reality

On July 29, 2024, Matmos’ Drew Daniel had a dream. A raver was telling him about a style of music, in 5/4 time, at 212 BPM, with “super crunched out sounds,” as he explained that morning in a tossed-off post describing the imaginary genre, which in the dream was called “hit em.” Soon, the dream …