analog vs digital music

Since 2002, Sean McBride has been making electronic music the hard way—using only vintage analog synthesizers and sequencers. As Martial Canterel, he emerged from Brooklyn’s WIERD scene to become a minimal wave icon, proving that resistance to digitalization could sound like the future. His work spans solo projects and collaborations (Xeno & Oaklander), always maintaining a strict analog-only methodology. In an era of AI-generated music and algorithmic homogenization, Martial Canterel’s insistence on technical mastery, physical presence, and machine unpredictability represents cultural resistance. His discography—from early cassettes to 2020’s refined works—demonstrates how limitation enables creativity and how underground music preserves what mainstream culture discards.