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Macro/micro Drops New Album ‘A.fter I.ntelligence’
Electronic music often grapples with the future, but few releases do so with the level of nuance found on Macro/micro’s new album, A.fter I.ntelligence. Created by Los Angeles-based artist Tommy Simpson, the project dives headfirst into questions surrounding artificial intelligence, consciousness, and the uncertain direction of human progress. The result is a listening experience that feels equally philosophical and deeply personal.
Built across eleven tracks and just over fifty-five minutes, the album blends IDM, ambient textures, and experimental composition into a cohesive conceptual statement. Simpson’s production is immersive from the outset, drawing listeners into a world where technological advancement and existential reflection are inseparable forces.
Songs like “Artificial Narrow Intelligence (‘We Can Always Just Shut It Off’)” and “Fully Autonomous War Machines” demonstrate the project’s ability to translate complex ideas into emotionally engaging sound design. Layers of evolving synths, fractured rhythms, and cinematic atmospheres create a sense of movement that mirrors the accelerating pace of technological change.
Yet despite its weighty themes, A.fter I.ntelligence never feels inaccessible. Simpson approaches these subjects through a human lens, focusing on uncertainty, vulnerability, and the search for meaning. Tracks such as “De-empty” and “Inward Retreat” provide moments of introspection that balance the record’s broader concerns about humanity’s future.
The album also benefits from Simpson’s extensive experience as a composer and audio engineer. Having contributed to projects involving Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, his attention to sonic detail is immediately apparent. Every sound feels purposeful, helping reinforce the narrative arc without overwhelming the listener with technical complexity.
A.fter I.ntelligence is ultimately a reminder that conversations about AI are also conversations about ourselves. Through its thoughtful concepts and immersive production, Macro/micro delivers an album that invites reflection long after the final notes of “Judgement Day” fade away. It’s a bold and rewarding addition to the contemporary experimental electronic landscape.
Ten years after Host Bodies first released the album Daily Apparatus, “On A Roll” has found a completely new groove.
For the Daily Apparatus: 10 Year Remixes project, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nicholas Hasty, under his Soul Glitch moniker, takes the original electronic-rock track and pulls it into deeper, more psychedelic territory.
The remix keeps the energy of Host Bodies intact while opening up the track with new beats, electronic textures and expressive saxophone solos. Electric guitar, bass and layered production give it a rich, genre-blurring sound that sits somewhere between indie electronic, jazztronica, soultronica and alternative dance.
There’s something particularly satisfying about hearing a decade-old track treated not as a relic, but as raw material. Soul Glitch reshapes “On A Roll” , finding new spaces within the original and bringing his own musical language into the mix.
The result is energetic, sensual, psychedelic and unapologetically expansive.
Ten years on, “On A Roll” proves that sometimes the best way to celebrate where a song came from is to find somewhere completely new for it to go.
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