Jazz Manouche AI Slop On Spotify

Carlos Foster

I was listening to a mix of Django’s recordings this week when some unfamiliar tunes came up on the playlist. I checked the name of the song, didn’t recognize it, then saw the artist was listed as the Quintette du Hot Club de France, Dorado Schmidt, AND Ensemble de Jazz Manouche. The latter, as you probably guessed, is an AI account masquerading as a real gypsy jazz band. They have like 10 albums released in the span of three months.

I dug deeper under the similar artists tab and found Jazz Manouche Instrumental Ensemble. Another AI account, with several albums, and claiming to have collaborated with Pearl Django on the tracks.

The presence of this music is sickening enough, but I am so grossed out that the account owners are falsely claiming contributions from real working artists.

Put your slop out, if you must, but don’t ride on the coat tails of actual artists who dedicated their lives to mastering and pushing this genre of music forward. It’s a common AI tactic that gets the account more streams, and legitimizes the AI tracks in the view of Spotify’s algorithms.

It’s tough to navigate the flow of this slop that is being force fed to us daily, but be aware. And champion the real contributors to this music.

JasonS

Spotify is pretty horrible. I haven't encountered as much of that stuff using Apple Music.

paulmcevoy75

I've heard some Gypsy Jazz slop that was medium convincing. If you listen closely, it's AI slop but in the background it was a bit hard to tell the difference.

Super disgusting.

Totally off topic but:

One thing I have come to really dig about Bad Bunny is that there are actual musicians involved playing (fucking) hand drums on a hit record, and not as some sort of color but an actual part of the tune. That gives me hope against the AI orks...

I think the thing I like about him is he's talking about a culture of music...community, dance. There's no place for AI music there. But in a coffee shop, in the background, where music is part of the commodity of everything, AI music or real music, it doesn't really matter.

Anyway, I think this is amazing. There's another track with the earthiest hand drumming but this one is killer. I remember a time in like the 80s through early 2000s where latin music seemed to be around a lot more. I definitely don't have my finger on the pulse of it but it seems like it has receded quite a bit. There's tasty piano playing on this track too. Just good shit.

Also the idea of looking stupid at a dance class, I feel seen.

/offtopic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Femq4NPxs

Buco

Spotify's embrace of the AI made me take my subscription elsewhere. Not only that they embraced AI, they saw it as a money saving/revenue tool. The only way they'll look at it and reconsider is if the subscriber count drops significantly.

Charlie Ayers

I recently came upon those on Spotify, as well, and was about to post about it here.

I have also recently found a blues series (Dumpster Grooves), and 2 supposed Oslo violinists (Heath Olean and Bryant Paskewitzt) there that also appear to be AI.