Participants 2024
About the TEAM
Songs are tickets to another world. Especially when Sepalot and Angela Aux take over as tour guides. Casual drum grooves meet rolling basslines and then the hook takes off: “We don’t know what it means to be human”. Dreamy echoes from the 90s reverberate through the consciousness: Kruder & Dorfmeister, Bonobo and Quantic, maybe Boards of Canada and Chemical Brothers. Perfect for train rides, days at the lake and long walks.
TIKHET is an obvious name for these indulgent short trips. The base station for the excursions of producer Sepalot (ex-Blumentopf) and songwriter Angela Aux (Aloa Input) are psychedelic grooves. From there they drift through the genres and decades: Nu Jazz, Folk, Krautrock and, as expected, a great sense of atmosphere. Their mixtape collages are like tickets whose effect can extend over hours and days. For risks and side effects, read the artist information and contact your DJ and record store.
About the SONG
“All Machineries” is a compositional journey: an 80s groove rises from an ambient cloud before a kick joins in. A synthetic voice asks whether we as humans can even know what “human” means. Or are we just groping in the dark with philosophical opposites in an attempt to guess at a continuum? The chorus takes us into pop, the narrator’s voice refers to biological algorithms when it says: “We’re all machineries and we can prove it”. Then: a more experimental mashup pop sequence before a rap part examines “the human” from today’s perspective. A final pop moment in the chorus before ending with the actual question: what is art in the age of spiritual machines?
About the HUMAN-AI PROCESS
We used Ripx for creating the samples for drums and synthetic sounds, then modeled them with Ripx and Neutone. We researched movie quotes with the "movie quote finder" and asked chat gpt to write rap parts, which we would let transpose to a voice with the ai voice creator.
Lyrics
I don't know what it means to be human
looking like a robot, feeling like a saint
I don't know what it means to be human
looking like a woman, feeling like a tank
We don't know what it means to be human
we're all machineries and we can prove it