Another reason to keep buying vinyl 
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Not just AI but slop in general.
As a commercial DJ (mostly functions but a few late bar gigs) thereās nothing coming out thatās really playable. I spent an hour going through Apple music in pop, chart, EDM etc. and nothing stood out at all. Just all depressing ballads, landfill EDM or meaningless pop.
Just checked my 2025 folder and Iāve only 14 tracks in it.
I occasionally browse through the pop and other charts on Apple Music for that ārelatableā track you might add in and yeah its pretty terrible now. Tracks like Diplo - on my mind and Kungs vs Cookin on 3 burners or John Newman etc are the type of pop track you can mix into a more underground set but there just seems to be nothing at all about.
Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift, hardly Saturday night dancing music.
Even Chappell Roanās singles are terrible. I know you can get some decent remixes on Xtendamix but thatās more for club use as people wouldnāt recognise them at functions.
It usually goes full circle and someone brings some soul back into the music, normally a Mark Ronson album drop after a 10yr hiatus, we can only keep our fingers crossed.
Mineās got 23 tracks - but they range from 1968 to 2025. Itās stuff that Iāve discovered this year, rather than stuff made this year.
The single solitary track Iāve added thatās actually from 2025 is:
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I have a weekly radio show and spin mostly house. Part of my weekly routine is to check record pools for new tracks that are not trash. 
there are tons of producers who simply just donāt have the sound that matches my ear, or even understand how to produce music well. An example of this is horrible and inconsistent phrasing, really bad singers (reaaaaaly bad!) and even bad mixing.
My monthly process is to buy music from traxxsource and itās easier to find what I consider good music there, though it is being infiltrated now by trash sounds.
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Becoming Trashsource thenā¦ phun intended.
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Not being able to sort by BPM on Traxsource is my biggest annoyance.
All in all though itās still easily the best place to go looking for half decent house music.
Here we go againā¦
Just seen this mob advertised on Instagram, selling āinstant ghost tracks for DJsā to āboost your DJ careerā. LOL become a superstar by buying some AI Slop for 350 to 1000 Euros each!
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Absolutely rankā¦ at least they cant AI a vinyl record atm.
Some of the AI noise releasers arenāt even hiding the AI slop stuff any more.
Looks like Spotify is also getting into the game when it comes to making AI noise generators.
If you care to give 350 to 1000 euros for an (AI?) ghost production, you sure can give 2000 euros to press 500 copies of said production, and offer it on your website as fan merchā¦.
Crazy idea? Well, (human) ghost production is the exact same thing: paying a lot of cash for marketing goals.
I dont know, scammers dont like spending money, they are in the business of extracting money.
This is why i tell friends and relatives to ignore any āurgentā emails telling them they havent paid something, or owe something etc. Because genuine companies will send you a letter if you actually do owe them money, and scam artists will never pay for a stamp.
Thatās the market of people trying to make money by fooling streaming platforms youāre talking about. And youāre absolutely right about this market: small investment, big revenue is key here.
But you can also think about other applications. have you been to IKEA lately? Sure that was AI music. Deliberately, because the rights to play commercial music are an expense they want to get rid of. And the whole ghost production scene: I can pay a real producer 2000 euro for a ghost production, or I can pay an AI platform 200 euro for a release with my name on it?
In the end, every business concept you can think of can, shortsightedly, be boiled down to ālow investment, big revenueā, and AI is very welcomed by such shortsighted strategies. We must agree that all those applications of AI music are detrimental for the income of real artists, donāt we?
But im talking about having physical records pressed and distributed, not the process of making the music.
There is essentially zero profit in that as it is, most people are doing it for the love of the format.
Itās up to the business in question if they can make it profitable. Maybe not now, because real music lovers hear the difference. But give the AI models another year or 2, and you will be able to fool a lot of peopleā¦ Never say never 
Thatās another trend Iāve noticed being advertised on Instagram - offering artists āfreeā vinyl pressing (for 50% of your income).
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Soundcloud is getting into the vinyl pressing business and trying to drive the cost way down also.
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