Techno utopia or AI nightmare? The problem with music made by machines
1 May 2026 at 19:04
Last year, Exit From BIG D, a Detroit techno album from an unknown artist named Marcellus Young, attracted attention from leading electronic music forums. It was presented as a lost gem from 1994, a convincing story with an even more convincing sound. Even experts in the field were nearly taken in. Then the truth was revealed: Marcellus Young was AI. At this point, the questions shifted. Wasnโt this the ultimate and desired evolution of electronic music? Isnโt this what many have imagined and simulated, made reality? Artificial, synthetic music, created for and by machines, the closure of a mythological circle.