C:>INSERTPROMPTHERE W/ Aliki Longjohn

As automation and robotic technologies constantly reshape the world around us, rapidly becoming part of our everyday life, we find ourselves gazing at the future with equal parts fascination and dread. Rooted in my deep fascination for the electronic sounds of the late 70s and 80s, this mix explores the remarkable ways in which artists from this era( with the exception of Codachrom, from 2013, yet deeply echoing the spirit and sound of those years) used technology to create genuinely innovative music: synthetic landscapes, processed voices, cold minimal textures, rigid mechanical beats, and entirely new instruments made by connecting circuits and electronic components. At a time when genuine musical creativity feels increasingly threatened by the rise of automated music generation tools, this exploration serves as a powerful reminder of how artists once confronted the machine — not to surrender to it, but to use it in service of their own vision. Those tools unlocked an incredible explosion of creativity and genuinity — pushing artists to explore the unknown, break their own boundaries, and produce some of the most revolutionary works that only the human mind and inspiration can create.