909 isn’t a drum machine
Beyond the Crate · published Tuesday, November 10, 2026 · updated
It’s how many AI tracks we pulled from Vernon in October, along with 810 banned artists. 4,230 fresh releases took their place.
No studio, no instruments, no sleepless nights. Just a prompt, tracks churned out in bulk, and streams cashed in like any musician or producer.
In October, Vernon banned 810 artists for AI-generated music. That is 26 a day, every day.
They are not artists, they are parasites. Every stream they capture is taken from someone who paid for their gear, learned their craft and spent months on an EP.
When a fake artist falls, their whole catalogue falls with them: 909 AI tracks were removed from the catalogue this month.
Meanwhile, real music keeps arriving:
- 4,230 new tracks added in October
- 1,910 in techno, 546 in disco, 413 in bass music, 328 in industrial, 309 in house
- 4,348 tracks run through the SH Labs detector
That is 4,230 fresh releases, straight from the artists’ latest drops.
We gotta take the power back 💪
Questions? Write to contact@loved.music.
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We gotta take the power back 💪