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AI And Dance Music: Techno Doomsday Or Infinite Possibilities?

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In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, AI has been all the rage and craze. Especially with the release of various art generating programs, ChatGPT and more recently Bing’s AI there has been huge amounts of controversy on various levels. People are both fascinated and concerned about the growth of use in these programs and what the future will bring with them. Other than your typical “skynet overlord robot masters” fear, people in the music world are definitely sweating what’s coming next. Will AI replace artists in the dance world especially within the house and techno realm? Is this the beginning of the dark dystopian music world that ironically techno has always been associated with? Or is this a new realm of possibilities for all genres of music?

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Closer with Santé: What Machines Influence His Sound The Most

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Avotre label boss Santé has just released his long-anticipated second album, Closer.

It comes after nine years of turning out real club dynamite on his own label as well as many other labels such as Rekids, Souvenir, Desolat and Cocoon. The new album is a real artistic development that shows off plenty of new musical maturity, features 13 tracks of essential house music and collaborations from friends like Mathias Kaden, Stickel, Tian Karl, Joaquin De Koen and many more.

Before that, he teases us with a new EP from it that offers three essential new tracks that show off the style to expect from the album.

But what sort of machines influence his sound the most? We caught up with the main man recently to discuss this very subject—and here’s what he had to say:

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