Blog: Beats Per Minute

Artists as instantly recognizable as M83 is for his screaming waves of synthesis are a rarity, especially in 2011 where the synthesizer has become the common denominator between about one million electronic music sub-genres (give or take). That includes the tangential places where rock and metal and jazz and hip-hop all convene at descriptors like "blurred" and "Squelching" under the consummate banner of indie . Perhaps that's approaching things from too broad a viewpoint. Synthesizers are capable of quite a vast array of sonic possibilities, yet they've become masthead for contemporary music's homogenization and the degrees between many artists [...]