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- Summary: The latest full-length release for the Berlin-based electronic duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma worked with computer programmers to create an AI speech modeling software they could use to manipulate text and voices.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Electronic, Electronica, Techno, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Post-Rock, Experimental Techno, Experimental Ambient, Ambient Techno, IDM
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Feb 26, 2021Their music is evolving in sync with their technology, and AAI presents a bold challenge to conventional notions of creativity, authenticity, learning, and emotion.
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UncutApr 6, 2021This ingenious successor to Computer World is enough to almost make one look forward to the coming robot wars. [Mar 2021, p.35]
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MojoApr 6, 2021A collection of tunes with groove at its synthetic heart. [Apr 2021, p.83]
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Apr 20, 2021Very programmatic, AAI allows Mouse on Mars to fully flesh out their ever implicit techno-humanist sonic philosophy, a certain anarcho-progressivism with a tech-utopian bent. The record serves as a magnifying glass to their career-long preoccupations.
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Mar 1, 2021There is no gotcha moment, no big replicant reveal; Mouse on Mars have bypassed the easy drama of deep fakes to delve into the realm of synthetic essence. Where Dimensional People’s voices were often run through electronic processing until they sounded almost like synthesizers, here the voice is a synthesizer, in effect.
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The WireApr 6, 2021The speech modelling software used to articulate the narrative generates a somewhat grittier, odder voice than your average online speech synthesizer, but that doesn’t keep the album’s expository moments from being momentum killers. The passages where artificial voice gets fed into some typically squelchy MOM electro beats are considerably more fun to listen to. [Feb 2021, p.52]