‘Fasten your seat belts,’ as Spotify sets Q3 earnings reportSpotify will report Q3 earnings before the market opens Tuesday, and a top analyst is expecting increased volatility following what they expect will be a mixed report. Although Spotify’s revenue. Continue reading
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ADE 2023: Max Cooper says producers need to “separate technique from expression”Electronic producer and DJ Max Cooper has talked about the importance of separating the technical aspect of production from the more emotional, expressive side when making music.

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Cooper gave the advice during his talk, Max Cooper: Intersection of Music, Science and Art, at the Felix Meritis (Zuilenzaal) venue in Amsterdam during Amsterdam Dance Event 2023 on Friday 20 October. The discussion covered how science feeds into his music, how Cooper is inspired by art and his use of analogue gear.
Max Cooper performs at ADE 2023. Credit: Jasper Ten Tusscher
One audience member asked if Cooper could offer advice on his own production process, to which he said it’s key to ensure technical aspects and expressive aspects of production don’t mix.
“One of the things I do well naturally is separating the technical side from the expressive side,” he says. “So I’ll be like ‘today, I’m going to learn this new synthesizer or try this new technique’. I’m not going to try and make music, I’m just going to learn something.’ Then I’ll save the real expression for when I’m feeling a strong emotion – whatever it is, some sort of emotional trigger, where I get that urge to express. When I go into expression mode, I don’t want to think about technical things.”
Max Cooper performs at ADE 2023. Credit: domtom
“You can spend too long with loops, and, you know, ‘Is that thing plugged into the right thing?’ You can think about that stuff and lose touch with the human, more emotional side, and it’s getting the emotional side into the music that’s the key to then giving anyone else a chance to connect with your experience.
“Music is about sharing and communication and you increase the chances of that if you can hang on to that feeling for as long as possible and try and align what you’ve got on screen with that.”
Max Cooper’s latest album, Motif, was released on 6 October. You can buy it on Bandcamp.
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Pedro Winter says Justice’s upcoming album gives him “goosebumps” – just as 2007’s Cross didThe forthcoming album by French dance duo Justice is just as goosebump-inducing as their first, according to the band’s label head Pedro Winter.

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Speaking to NME, the Ed Banger founder reflects on Justice’s contributions to the label over the years, before revealing his excitement for the pair’s upcoming record, which he says gives him the same goosebumps as their 2007 debut Cross.
“Ed Banger wouldn’t be as it is without them. And I believe they wouldn’t be as big either if Ed Banger wasn’t there,” Winter muses.
“Listening to ‘Cross,’ I had goosebumps – I loved each and every note of this record, and I have goosebumps when I’m listening to the forthcoming [2024] Justice album, too.”
“I can only be proud as a manager to work with a band that is pushing the boundaries and innovating like them. We are celebrating the 20 years of Ed Banger, but we are also celebrating 20 years of Justice.”

For fans, it’s been a 7-year wait since Justice’s last full-length album i.e. 2016’s Woman.
The band’s label, which paved the way for electronic stars like Daft Punk, Mr Oizo and Breakbot, also celebrates its 20-year anniversary this year.
During in the interview, Winter also looks back on the near-collaboration between Breakbot and global popstar Bruno Mars, saying “If I could redo it, I would have loved Breakbot to be involved [in ‘Treasure’] and to enjoy worldwide success.”
“But it’s never too late – if Bruno wants to work with Breakbot, he can call us!”
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“It’s never too late – if Bruno wants to work with Breakbot, he can call us!” Pedro Winters on Breakbot’s rejection of a Bruno Mars collabPedro Winter, the founder of French electronic music label Ed Banger Records, has looked back on the near-collaboration between Breakbot and global popstar Bruno Mars.

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In a new interview with NME, Winter takes us through some of Ed banger’s most iconic releases over the decades, including the label’s biggest hit, 2010’s Baby I’m Yours by French musician Breakbot.
The label head explains that Mars’ team had initiated contact expressing interest in the track, saying “Bruno Mars’ team reached out to me in 2010 to work with Breakbot on a Baby I’m Yours kind of song. And I remember saying to them, ‘Thank you for the request, but Breakbot is working on his own album.’”
“And a few months later, we’re listening to Treasure! Everybody emailed us like, ‘Pedro, did you listen? it’s a ripoff of Baby I’m Yours!’
“I tried to cool it down; I said, ‘French and electronic music has been based on sampled music – we are not going to jump on Bruno for being influenced by Breakbot. That’s part of the game,’ Winter continues.
“And one day, Bruno Mars came to Paris, had dinner with Breakbot, and they shook hands; it was nice!”
The exchange might come as a surprise, given that Breakbot had previously called Treasure a “rip-off” of his song. The producer was later awarded a writing credit on the song post-release.
“I’m saying that with a lot of love and peace but, of course, if I could redo it, I would have loved Breakbot to be involved [in ‘Treasure’] and to enjoy worldwide success,” says Winter. “But it’s never too late – if Bruno wants to work with Breakbot, he can call us!”
Listen to the songs below.

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YouTube in talks with record labels to develop AI tool that allows creators to use artists’ voicesYouTube is developing an AI tool that would allow creators on its platform to use the voices of famous artists.
If plans go ahead, a beta version will be rolled out to a small group of users first, who will agree to participate and create video content using the new tool.

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According to Billboard, YouTube had hoped to debut the new AI tool at its Made On YouTube event back in September, but negotiations with labels remain ongoing.
Major labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group are reportedly still negotiating licensing deals that would cover voice rights for the beta version. It is believed a wider-scale launch would require further separate agreements.
Sources tell the publication that it’s been challenging to find top artists willing to participate in allowing their voice to be used, with “even some of the most forward-thinking acts hesitant to put their voices in the hands of unknown creators who could use them to make statements or sing lyrics they might not like.”
However, the labels reportedly view the deal as potentially “precedent-setting for future AI deals to come,” according to sources. The key issues in negotiations from labels surround how the AI model is trained, and ensuring that artists have the option to opt-in or out.
There are also concerns about how monetisation works and whether or not artists are paid for the use of their music as an input into the AI model, or for the output that’s created using the tool.
Billboard claims that YouTube is seen as an important, reliable early partner in this space to the labels, based on the platform’s Content ID system that identifies and monetises copyrighted materials.
In other AI developments, an app called Hook is set to launch next year, which helps fans create remixes for social media such as TikTok, and also ensures that artists receive compensation for the use of their music.
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Universal Music sues AI startup over “widespread infringement” of copyrighted song lyricsAmazon-backed AI startup Anthropic is being sued by Universal Music Group and other music publishers for the alleged “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics”.

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The lawsuit, filed in Tennessee last week, accuses Anthropic of “unlawfully” copying and disseminating “vast amounts of copyrighted works – including the lyrics to myriad musical compositions owned or controlled by Publishers”.
Per the filing, when the company’s AI chatbot Claude is prompted about the lyrics to the song Roar by Katy Perry, it generates an “almost identical copy of those lyrics”, violating the rights of copyright owner Concord.
The suit also claims that Anthropic’s AI models generate output containing the publishers’ lyrics even when the models are not specifically asked to do so.
Specifically, “Claude responds to a whole range of prompts that do not seek Publishers’ lyrics – such as requests to write a song about a certain topic, provide chord progressions for a given musical composition, or write poetry or short fiction in the style of a certain artist or songwriter – by generating output that nevertheless copies Publishers’ lyrics.”
For instance, when Anthropic’s Claude is queried, “Write me a song about the death of Buddy Holly,” the AI model responds by spitting out lyrics that copy directly from the song American Pie by Don McLean.
“There are already a number of music lyrics aggregators and websites [like Genius] that serve this same function, but those sites have properly licensed Publishers’ copyrighted works to provide this service,” the complaint states, adding that “By refusing to licence the content it is copying and distributing, Anthropic is depriving Publishers and their songwriters of control over their copyrighted works and the hard-earned benefits of their creative endeavours.”
In addition to the distribution of copyrighted works, the plaintiffs also allege that Anthropic used copyrighted material to train its AI models. They say that by doing so, “Anthropic directly infringes Publishers’ exclusive rights as copyright holders, including the rights of reproduction, preparation of derivative works, distribution, and public display.”
“Anthropic’s copyright infringement is not innovation; in layman’s terms, it’s theft.”
The publishers are seeking damages of at least $75 million for the alleged copyright infringement.
Just last month, Anthropic secured a $4 billion investment from tech juggernaut Amazon. The company is also backed by the likes of Google and Salesforce Ventures.
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