i think we should collectively agree to pause all AI development in music software until rekordbox is able to reliably identify the first beat of a song
group effort! happy new year!
Ben UFO
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- playing an 8 hour opening set at panorama bar on saturday :) my friend just hit me up to let me know that under EU legislation im entitled to a paid lunch break
- TV show idea: Boiler Room x Running Man, at the end of each set the audience watching at home decides whether the DJ lives or dies
- accepting the aux cable in a cab is scarier than DJing in front of several thousand people
- been in NZ and Aus for two months now and can confirm that playing music and dancing in a room full of people with a good sound system is still the best thing in the world. i missed it so much. so much to look fwd to :)
- tried an american kitkat for the first time yesterday - wtf. absolutely disgusting. deeply surreal that something so familiar and reliable could be so different
- a lot of the AI music discourse I see on here seems to start from the premise that 'AI generated slop = bad, human cultural production = good' i think a more sensible conversation about it needs to be able to account for the fact that the majority of music out there already
- 8 years later, I've recorded another Essential Mix :) I'm really happy to have been invited back. Listen live on Saturday 25th from 12-2am @BBCR1
- With the following tweets I'm going to try and speak to the events of this week, and will be as open and transparent as I can be.
- id just like to make it very clear that, as your future garage grandad, ive always enjoyed a nice pair of corduroy trousers and will be continuing to enjoy them long after this flavour of the month nonsense subsides
- we've been working on this for 11 months!! im stoked with how it's come together - every party is going to be entirely its own thing and its going to be really fun figuring out how i fit into each one :) huge thx to everyone who said yes to playing! tix: benufolondon.co.uk
- 2017 and there are still folk who react like you're playing free jazz if you avoid 4x4 kick drums for a while :/
- Replying to @BenUFOit shouldn't be possible to have drake sing me happy birthday in 20 languages while the most used DJ software on the planet still cannot find the first transient in a song that starts with a massive kick drum
