here's the recording of this week's show i really enjoyed this one - there's a lot of great music around at the moment and it was a pleasure digging through it. i've not always been certain two hours is the right length for radio but it was needed this week soundcloud.com/rinsefm/hessl…

Hessle Audio show tonight on Rinse FM new show time - 7-9pm / 106.8FM London two hours of mostly new music

last Hessle Audio show recording up now, featuring don @stonestarojp with a 100% productions mix, and me rolling through some 160bpm weirdo trax in the first hour soundcloud.com/rinsefm/hessl…

Last night we broadcast this recording from a night in Shenzhen that I've been sitting on since the end of last year Slightly manic uptempo selection reflective of the extremely fun freakazoid energy of Oil's audience, and their wicked soundsystem. I've always had such a good time DJing in China - shout out to Yu Su, Youpo and Knopha! on.soundcloud.com/LaZKZPMaGt…

soundcloud.com/rinsefm/hessl… it's up!

Hessle Audio show broadcasting on Rinse FM in half an hour! This week we're broadcasting a section of my closing set in the grove at Sustain Release '25 :) Shout out to the amoeba! Thanks for listening!

youtu.be/kWTq1AQF2Yc?si=0cRM… Hessle Audio show archived on video for the first time!

here's yesterday's show - two hours of mostly new music mixed by me soundcloud.com/rinsefm/hessl… thanks for listening! was great to be back in the studio

i dont think any of these AI related questions are remotely simple a lot of my favourite music is repetitive, uncomplicated, electronic, instrumental - the actual music would be easily replicable basically, the value of the music exists separately attached to context and memory. i worry about the potential for erasure of context and collective memory i imagine similar conversations happening when sample based electronic instruments started getting really good - some purists probably still think it’s really easy to tell the difference between spitfire and a real recording session - i can probably tell more often than not i think, but would definitely make mistakes - but most people just aren’t considering that question at all, it’s not relevant to them in how they consume music, and similarly i think in the future the people who will be really concerned with trying to figure out what’s been generated (and which aspects, to what degree) will be in the minority of listeners. to a lot of young people even the question will feel antiquated.

more on context collapse - i just came across a bandcamp profile that owns the rights to a bunch of classic death metal albums from the 90s it looks like everything they've released this year is AI generated 🤣 absolutely next level to use an established label profile to then throw slop into the ecosystem. if you stumbled across this page you'd have no way of immediately telling what was real and what wasn't, and the amount of trash you'd have to wade through to find anything legitimate would basically preclude anyone from finding meaning in any of it. total context erasure

context collapse definitely works in both directions. new tools make it harder to figure out the processes behind where new music is coming from, but also if the algorithm fed me this and i was a little younger/didnt know the artists, id probably assume this was AI / Suno etc

the last Hessle Audio show featuring MNTY and Imperieux is up now! soundcloud.com/rinsefm/hessl…