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Glitch is an experimental electronic music genre where intentional errors, digital distortions, broken sounds, and system failures become an artistic tool. It is music built on what is usually avoided: crackles, clicks, fragments, corrupted bits, and noise artifacts.

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What is Glitch?

Glitch is an electronic music direction that uses:

• digital errors (glitches),
• software and hardware malfunctions,
• audio fragments and artifacts,
• vinyl crackle and tape noise,
• granular synthesis,
• unstable signals and “glitchy” effects.

The genre is built on the philosophy: “an error is a style.”

Glitch turns the imperfections of digital technologies into expressive, artistic sound design.

Origins of Glitch and the philosophy of the genre

Late 1990s – early 2000s: the start of digital experimentation

The first artists were inspired by:

• CD-player skips,
• digital audio errors,
• experimental techno,
• IDM,
• minimalism.

Labels such as Mille Plateaux became the core of the Glitch aesthetic.

The philosophy of glitch-art

The genre grew alongside visual glitch-art:

• error as art,
• breaking existing forms,
• anomaly as an expressive element,
• using broken technologies creatively.

Glitch music often sounds like digital fragments of a world falling apart and being rebuilt again.

Key sound characteristics of Glitch

1. Broken rhythms and irregular patterns

Tracks may be:

• without a strict beat,
• with floating accents,
• with chaotic or shifting rhythmic figures.

2. Errors as musical components

Dropouts, noise spikes, digital clicks, cuts — all become part of the composition.

3. Granular textures

Sound is sliced into tiny grains, forming new sonic structures.

4. Minimalism or ultra-detailed sound design

Glitch can be:

• quiet, subtle, atmospheric,
• or chaotic, fast and noisy.

5. High-level sound design

Producers focus not on notes but on textures.

Subgenres of Glitch

Glitch IDM (Glitch-Tech, Glitch-Hop)

IDM structures + digital errors + rhythmic complexity.

Glitch Hop

A more danceable version, merging glitch aesthetics with hip-hop / beat music.

Clicks & Cuts

Minimalist, cold sound inspired by Mille Plateaux.

Ambient Glitch / Melodic Glitch

Atmospheric, melodic, textured, often cinematic.

Noisy Glitch / Glitchcore

Fast, aggressive, chaotic digital noise.

Influential artists & pioneers

• Autechre — IDM & glitch as mathematical art.
• Oval — a genre founder; used scratched CDs as an instrument.
• Alva Noto — clicks & cuts, digital minimalism.
• Raster-Noton scene (Byetone, Ryoji Ikeda) — pure digital abstraction.
• Telefon Tel Aviv — melodic glitch + emotional depth.
• Flying Lotus (early period) — experimental beat scene with glitch elements.
• Aphex Twin (partial influence) — distortions, chaos, psycho-digital structures.
• Seefeel and Boards of Canada — ambient-glitch influences.

Modern Glitch trends (2024–2025)

1. Glitch in pop music and EDM

Digital errors are now part of mainstream sound (hyperpop, glitchcore).

2. Fusion-scene

Glitch + techno, glitch + ambient, glitch + DnB.

3. Retro digital glitch (8-bit, 16-bit)

Inspired by old gaming consoles and early digital hardware.

4. “Pure” glitch

A return to minimalism and the classic clicks & cuts aesthetic.

Glitch on Minatrix.FM — what you'll find

Atmospheric & experimental tracks — from minimalist to highly complex.

Classics & new wave — Oval, Autechre, TTA + emerging producers.

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Curated playlists by mood

Why listen to Glitch?

• it’s music for those who love the unusual;
• it breaks traditional sound perception;
• it turns digital chaos into art;
• it inspires designers, programmers, visual artists, filmmakers;
• it’s one of the most innovative genres in electronic music.

Glitch is a sound laboratory of the future.

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Glitch — the art of error turned into sound.