- Hybrid outsider dance music that uses AI to imitate figures like The Weeknd and Oprah.
- Jamie Silk was always aware of his outsider status. He grew up in France and produced rap during his teenage years. Then, after moving to Montreal, he immersed himself in electronic music, led by the city’s ballroom scene. Silk is both a sponge and a chameleon, able to quickly assimilate and dabble in different styles and genres while nodding to his Afro-European roots. “Rub Music” is the style he coined It confuses rave with club music (“This is not rave music, this is not club music, this is love music”). The track of his first quest for style, artificial reality, is a very danceable sound experiment. And the EP draws from a variety of influences, with his one common and unique thread of using AI-generated vocals. “Illusions” is techno with breakbeat bridge and broad appeal. Here, a digital Tupac impostor begs over icy pads, synth squeals and thumping drums, “Forget what you know about this world. It’s all not real.” A computerized Kendrick Lamar makes an appearance on the similarly wistful “Temptation,” while “Mechanical Birds” features vocals by an anonymous “little boy,” a futuristic tale interspersed with bony beats and polyrhythms. Sending a dark message. He can be described as IDM for the first half of this melody-stripped track, and the track reboots into disjointed PC music as if it was made on a glitchy computer. The record’s title his track hints at what The Weeknd might sound like if you traded the radio-ready sophistication of Swedish House Mafia for the dark, hookless shapeshifting of Silk. It’s the rare kind of song that can be played on an EDM festival set or a dingy warehouse and works equally well in either. Oprah’s impersonation on “Break Free,” on the other hand, is not successful. A background patchwork of ambient beats is the EP’s least urgent, better suited for chillout his room than the dancefloor. whole, artificial reality is a fascinating insight into the possibilities of AI-powered vocals (thrilling or terrifying, depending on your perspective). Bar AI Oprah, the voices used here are so compelling and bewildering. And it’s easy to imagine other computer-generated voices being used to brilliant and terrible effect. Silk’s track falls into the former category and will make you cry at both raves and clubs. His one of his most unusual experiments may prove his one of his most successful experiments.
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