LITTLE BIG BEAT STUDIOS

The content of this magazine is written by people, for people – a sentence which, in the twenty-first century, when hardly a conversation can do without the abbreviation "AI", sounds almost programmatic once more. It matters to us to render the sonic impression of a device, of a pressing, of an evening with the stylus in the groove exactly as our own ears heard it: unfiltered, unbribed, unmistakably human. The superlatives you read here have passed through an eardrum, not a language model.
That does not spare us a measure of pragmatism, of course. We too make use of artificial intelligence for research – deliberately and without false shame – for in the thicket of the internet it will occasionally bring to light precisely the detail that, in the daily routine of an editorial office, there is simply no time to hunt down by hand. One might call it a division of labour: the machine digs, we listen and write.