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Dance music as the counterbalance to AI: AlyV.

AlyV, Reported by Maceo, Denver, 3 min, filmed

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To quote this piece: AlyV, “Dance music as the counterbalance to AI: AlyV,” We Them Media, filmed 2026-03-14, https://wethem.xyz/watch/dance-music-as-the-counterbalance-to-ai-alyv. Each transcript line links to its second.

AlyV, a producer and DJ, is asked which sub-genre of dance music appeals to him most, and does not want the question. “I kind of just like consume and like listen to music and create without thinking about like genres.” If people had to label it: “wonky, like, space, bass, I guess, you know? Glitch, some glitch hop.” The multiplying genres are fine by him, because they make “more space for little niches that people can connect with.”

What he cares about is keeping it human: live instruments, vocals, drums, “even using like hybrid drums or all electronic drums. It’s still like everything just is still you try to humanize it and like make it real.” Then the line the piece turns on: “that’s just like the counterbalance to AI is holding on to whatever like little shreds that we have of like human humanity, you know, and like our own human like experience, which is not perfect.”

The work is lonely, he says, and worth it for the room. “They just want to like connect with real people like get outside of their house get back from behind their computers and like that’s what I think dance music has going for it right now. I think we should double down on the culture and like just build people up.”

From the Denver sessions of March 2026. The transcript below is from the original audio.

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0:01AIs there like a sub-genre of like EDM or dance music that appeals to you the most?

0:07BA sub-genre? Man, I don’t know. I kind of like don’t really pay attention to that stuff. I kind of just like consume and like listen to music and create without thinking about like genres or anything like that, you know?

0:23ABut do you see sub-genres? Like I don’t really listen to like music honestly.

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0:27BYeah, I mean, I think that, like, of course, if people were to, like, categorize my sound or, like, stuff that I’m into, I feel like it would be, like, wonky, like, space, bass, I guess, you know? Glitch, some glitch hop. I don’t know, man. It’s, it’s, there’s so many genres. There’s so many genres. And they continue to evolve. And, but I think that’s really cool because I think it just gives people more of a reason to, like, go in on what they love and find what they love, you know what I mean? So yeah, it just like makes more space for little niches that people can connect with which I think is really really really cool for sure But yeah, I’m definitely into that like wonky trippy shit melodic, you know a little bit of everything But keeping it real with like live music and stuff, live instruments, vocals, drums, like taking you know even using like hybrid drums or all electronic drums.

0:27BIt’s still like everything just is still you try to humanize it and like make it real. And I don’t know, dude. Yeah. So I think that’s just like the counterbalance to AI is holding on to whatever like little shreds that we have of like human humanity, you know, and like our own human like experience, which is not perfect. So and I think that’s why people are still wanting to come to dance music and like connect and go to live shows and stuff like that. That’s like, that’s so huge. So even though a lot of what we do is like really like lonely and kind of like isolated, it also is really like, it’s like, man, so much worth all the work, you know, that goes into it just to like see people connect and have a good time.

2:13BAnd yeah, dude, I think that’s what people What people really just want now is they just want to like connect with real people like get outside of their house get back from behind their computers and like that’s what I think dance music has going for it right now. I think we should double down on the culture and like just build people up and like make it a safe space for everybody and like I think that also comes like educating new people to the scene on like how you know what I mean.

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