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2 days agoTechno utopia or AI nightmare? The problem with music made by machines
Artificial intelligence in music raises questions about the evolution and authenticity of electronic music.
Detroit techno, austere and futuristic, grew out of Black/queer culture, sci-fi escapism, and the repetitive language of automobile factories. San Francisco's techno, on the other hand, fused an outdoor hippie aesthetic with ecstatic, UK-derived beats that had crowds mass-hallucinating UFOs on Ocean Beach at dawn. Both shared a deep funkiness, however—remember when people of all shapes and colors once danced wildly?
His first albums under his own name, 1995's Earth & Nightfall and 1996's cult classic Ten Days of Blue, were blissful-sounding ambient techno records that took the melodic sensibilities of the local scene to their cosmic extremes. Every beep and blip was in harmony with a lush string line, the rhythms less like breakbeats or programmed drums than trance-inducing hammered dulcimers.
"The pulse of New York has always carried with me," DJ and Detroit techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson tells while sitting beside John Barclay - owner of the recently closed Bed Stuy club, and nearby techno staple, Bossa Nova Civic Club.