When Technology Becomes Techno: DJ Matthew Dear Crafts Beats from the Sounds of Big Machines

Drop

Verb: To let or make something fall vertically.

Noun (musical): A switch in the rhythm or bass line following a long crescendo. A musical climax.

The industrial world buzzes, whirs, thrums and beeps – sometimes audibly, at other times just out of the range of human hearing. For most of us, these noises are the background track of the modern world, but for DJ and musician Matthew Dear, there’s music in the science.