Metope (Michael Schwanen) is an electronic music producer who has produced many singles on Sender Records and Areal Records, of which he is the head.[1] His style is associated with German minimal techno and microhouse.[1] His music features quirky melodies mixed with music influences comparable to that of Ada,[2] who Schwanen is credited with discovering.[3] Metope, however, is known more for his "timbral richness" than for his melody or structure.[4] Metope describes his music as "seeming to long for a transformation of their digital being into flesh, and that by bit reduction they attempt to imitate life".[5]