A follow up to his 2024 mixtape, Illegal Generation Vol. 1, Lil Internet brings you Vol. 2 — a new hour of fresh “gencore,” which aired today on Mark Leckey’s monthly NTS radio show.
“Compared to Volume 1,” Lil Internet writes, “Volume 2 feels closer to a truly functional example of what AI generated music might offer outside of joke songs and the emulation of styles that already exist—it’s also more deranged.”
“Both, however, are made in the tradition of sample-based, breakbeat driven dance music,” Lil Internet points out, which is to say music that “has always been made using the latest technology and stolen data (uncleared samples).” In this sense, Gencore is part of the natural evolution of what music critic Simon Reynolds named the “hardcore continuum.” Could one even argue that the big AI companies — sampling everything we type, everything we upload, everything we do — follow the same protocol? Perhaps the “hardcore continuum” has expanded from something we listen to into something we are living through.
"ILLEGAL GENERATION, VOL. 2" TRACKLIST
00:00 - SHENZHEN CONFIDENTIAL®
02:46 - FIND A WHEY®
05:13 - THE LOCUST COMMUNITY®
08:22 - FLOOD DOSE®
12:51 - EARTH VICTORY®
18:04 - VIOLENCE AGAINST MEN®
22:52 - SPRING BROKERS®
26:09 - SEASTEADIN’®
31:25 - PEPTIDE PSYCHOSIS®
36:26 - CHEMISTRY FAIRE / INN XL®
41:46 - IBOGA DRIFT®
46:59 - LAST NIGHT OF DUBAI®
51:51 - ESCHATOLOGY BOP®
56:16 - CONSCIOUSNESS, INTERRUPTED®
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LIL INTERNET ILLEGAL GENERATION VOL. 2 FOLDER LINK
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LIL INTERNET’S 3 RULES OF GENCORE:
1. All gencore vocals must be forced hallucinations, output by the model in "instrumental" mode (as a distinctly inhuman glossolalia or phonetic ur-language).
2. Whoever creates the gencore should not personally be able to say “oh this sounds like X artist or genre” (except gencore)
3. To recreate a gencore track using traditional (non-generative) means must be very difficult, very expensive, or simply impossible.
