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AI and electronic music
AI entered electronic music through three doors at once: the tools DJs use, the tracks that flood streaming services and the artists who now record with synthetic voices. These reports follow each door with sources, from Deezer's upload figures to the first streaming-fraud sentencing.
- start here // 19.09.26Deezer: Over Half of Daily Uploads Are Now AIDeezer says AI tracks now top 50% of daily uploads, mostly bot-driven royalty fraud, and it's now selling its detection tech to rival platforms.
- 23.09.26Spotify Will Now Label Which Artists Are AISpotify's new AI Persona badge and IFPI's 27-company fraud pact arrive months after a $8 million bot-streaming scheme ended in a guilty plea.
- 09.10.26Michael Smith Gets 18 Months for $8M AI Streaming FraudThe man behind the first US criminal AI streaming fraud case got 18 months, below the 46 prosecutors sought. Here is the case and the pro-rata math.
- 19.09.26Bandcamp's AI Ban, Six Months On: What ChangedSix months after Bandcamp's AI music ban, human review has caught real cases but also pulled human artists' catalogs on unproven suspicion.
- 31.10.26Charlotte de Witte's Azadi EP Uses an AI SingerCharlotte de Witte's Azadi EP, out 5 November, uses the AI singer NAVA and gives all proceeds to FEMENA. What is confirmed and why fans are split.
- 12.10.26Todd Edwards Samples Suno AI: What Producers Should KnowTodd Edwards says he samples Suno Studio output and calls the AI backlash hypocritical. We check the 2026 legal picture and what it means for producers.
- 05.11.26How AI Stem Separation Is Rewiring DJ Sets in 2026AI stem separation went from novelty to studio-grade in 2026. Here's how working DJs actually use Moises, Serato, djay Pro, VirtualDJ, and LALAL.AI.