The Dutch producer MODUL8 has been grinding in the underground for twenty years, cutting his teeth on the most intense music imaginable: speedcore, breakcore, drum & bass, and metal. His love for language pulled him into poetry and battle rap, building a skill set that most producers never touch. When mainstream music stopped exciting him, he did something bold: he started experimenting with AI in his own “music labs.” He learned to guide artificial intelligence to create specific sounds and textures that matched his vision, developing what he calls “curbstep”, a wild mix of phonk, dubstep, trap, glitch, and boom bap.
“The sound of a mind that can’t stop dissecting what it creates.”
“Corpse Sonata Vol. I” is fourteen songs of pure aggression that treat music like a crime scene. It’s an intense, in-your-face production that practically demands your headbanging. The bass hits hard enough to rattle your chest. His flow is something else entirely. Multi-syllabic rhymes come at you in double-time bursts, technical enough to make you rewind just to catch everything he’s saying. The lyrics dive deep into themes of compulsion and mania, painting a picture of an artist who can’t help but destroy and rebuild everything he touches.
The “curbstep” label actually makes sense once you hear it. The rumbling bass from dubstep, trap’s rapid-fire hi-hats, the gritty street feel of phonk, glitch music’s intentional chaos, and boom bap’s classic hip-hop foundation all crash out together. The album’s concept of creating a “sonata for the corpses of old sounds” runs through every track. There’s violence in the process, but it’s creative violence. As a debut, “Corpse Sonata Vol. I” announces MODUL8 as an artist who won’t play by anyone else’s rules.
The more you dig in, the more you catch subtle production details, intricate wordplay, moments where human creativity and AI capability merge into something neither could achieve alone. MODUL8 has proven his point: the future of music isn’t about AI taking over, it’s about artists using technology to go further than they could alone.
“Corpse Sonata Vol. I” is the sound of that future arriving. Turn it up and give it a listen!
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