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ED / MCL @xxedmclxx released GJ JUNKHEAP ONE today, out on all platforms. It’s 41 minutes of nonstop AI generated music.
This experiment started after @lilinternet introduced “gencore” with his Illegal Generation mixes. He calls gencore “the endgame of the hardcore continuum,” an inevitability of how electronic music has been created so far. It aims to be a club genre whose sound is formed from the characteristics of generative AI music tools.
Lil Internet came up with 3 rules for making gencore:
1. All gencore vocals must be forced hallucinations, output by the model in “instrumental” mode (as a distinctly inhuman glossolalia or phonetic ur-language).
2. Whoever creates the gencore should not personally be able to say “oh this sounds like X artist or genre” (except gencore).
3. To recreate a gencore track using traditional (non-generative) means must be very difficult, very expensive, or simply impossible.
GJ JUNKHEAP ONE doesn’t always follow these rules. Sometimes the tracks were just too good to exclude.
Prompting gencore is nothing like the human process of making music. Instead, gencore lends itself to being mixed and rearranged. While a DJ collects tracks that fit a mood/vibe/style, a GJ prompts them by digging into the model, sometimes breaking it, summoning with words the sound they want.
MOSH OUT NOW
Vinyl dropping soon
ED / MCL & IBISAZI DESIGNERS NYABYO
@xxedmclxx@ibisazi_designers_nyabyo @interference_pattern
ED/MCL (pronounced Ed Michael) and IDN (Ibisazi Designers Nyabyo) have collaborated to create MOSH – both the title of the EP and its proposed genre. Mosh is music to mosh to, like dance is music to dance to. Jungle breaks are slowed down to the tempo of a metalcore breakdown. Super low 808s rumble below the beat. Sampled and recorded sounds are textured to evoke heavy metal guitars. And there are rhythmic shouted phrases, for shared chanting. This EP is being released on Interference Pattern because Tyler Pope saw ED/MCL playing on the street in Williamsburg.
IDN (Ibisazi Designers Nyabyo) is an artist collective based in Rwanda. Their vocals are shouted in a language of their own invention, yet they have crafted catchy vocal hooks designed for call and response. The vocals heard on MOSH were recorded with ED/MCL while they were visiting them in Kigali. The final track is a 10 minute long performance by IDN, from which ED/MCL remixed the preceding five mosh songs.
ED/MCL is a masked trash duo based in Brooklyn, NY. They are a cringe egregore of male-dominated genres past: metal, nu-metal, emo, and hardcore. They digest these forms in the Internet age and spit them back out in a heap. Their music is garbage - but like any good dump, there are moments of beauty.
One year ago, @xxedmclxx released BRASKA, a full cover of @springsteen Nebraska. One year later, we are hallucinating all of BRASKA. Watch more at davislee.zone
