The first Saddle & Synth single is out. Boulevard Kids runs one minute and eleven seconds, and that is deliberate. It is the shortest possible version of the idea this whole project is built on: what happens when the storytelling warmth of country music meets the physical energy of an electronic drop.
There is no long intro, no second verse, no bridge that buys time. The track states its case and stops. If you like the first eight seconds, you will like all of it.
Where it came from
The starting point was a picture rather than a melody: an empty boulevard at the end of a summer day, the tarmac still warm, somebody driving nowhere in particular with the windows down. Country music has always been good at that kind of image. Electronic music has always been good at the feeling that comes right after it, when the sun is gone and the night has not decided yet what it wants to be.
Most music picks one of the two. Boulevard Kids refuses to.
The credits are public
If you open the track details on Spotify, you will see two names in the writing credits: Markus Geretshauser and GenerativeAI. That is not an accident and it is not hidden in the small print. The composition, the arrangement and the audio were produced with generative AI, and the selection was made by a human. Both belong in the credits, so both are in the credits.
We think that is the only honest way to release this kind of music. You can read more about how it actually works under Behind the AI.
What to do with it
Follow the project on Spotify. It costs you nothing, and it is the only reliable way to hear the next release the day it lands rather than three weeks later.
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