If the world of pop and the big majors daily demonstrates that they want to normalise the use of AI in mainstream productions – just think of the unreleased albums of defunct artists – the same cannot be said of EDM.

Techno and similar seem to resist the raging spread of the latest technologies, as if they wanted to preserve their human and ‘crafted’ side.

The experience of Algorythm must have aroused in the participants that uncanny feeling typical of the ‘uncanny valley’, where the almost perfect imitation of the human is disturbing.

It has to be said, however, that in other cultures the inclusion of robotic elements has never been a problem: the Japanese and Scandinavians have been dancing to the notes of vocaloids in total carefreeness for almost twenty years. For us, on the other hand, the subject is divisive: there are those who appreciate them, and those who see them as soulless. And what about EDM?

In an era when AI-generated contents are indistinguishable from human ones, no one would be surprised if a producer made use of samples produced by an algorithm and integrated them into his own productions. The technologies are already there, and samples can be created from textual prompts.

There is still not much discussion about it, but perhaps it is only a matter of time. Technological innovation first frightens, then seduces. The question now is: if AI enters EDM in the future, will it be able to maintain the emotional authenticity of techno and related?