Episode 3 — The Situation’s Situation

In this episode of The Listening Practice, Coflo breaks down his most popular remix of 2025: The Situation by Stranger Danger featuring Tony Soul, released on Moulton Music.

What started as a single remix turned into six atempted versions, each exploring a different relationship between groove, dance, vocal delivery, and intention. Rather than a simple track breakdown, this episode looks at the real work behind remixing: endurance, decision-making, abandoning good ideas, and trusting feel over formulas.

Coflo walks through each version—some abandoned, some will get repurposed, one almost released—before landing on the final cut that unexpectedly became his most widely shared and played track of the year. Along the way, he dives deep into rhythm as language, call-and-response songwriting, dancer-first composition, and why popularity often has very little to do with intention.

This episode is for producers, dancers, DJs, and anyone curious about how dance music is actually built—not just technically, but philosophically.

Is AI actually ruining underground dance music — or is it exposing something deeper?

In this episode of The Listening Practice, I dig into the uncomfortable, nuanced reality of AI in music — not from a hype perspective, and not from a fear-based one — but from the lens of someone who has lived inside underground dance culture for decades.

We talk about:

• Why AI isn’t killing creativity, but exposing gaps in it

• The difference between generative AI and traditional music tools

• Why some AI-written music feels “too sweet” — and why that matters

• How digital retailers and streaming platforms are being flooded with AI-driven releases

• The shrinking retail and cultural space for the next underground genius

• Why sound quality and fidelity still matter on real systems

• The danger of confusing tools with authorship

• Why Bandcamp’s stance on AI actually makes sense

• How AI can be used responsibly as a creative assistant

• And why human intention, spirit, and collaboration still define great music

This is not an anti-AI rant.
This is not a hype piece.
This is a conversation about culture, intention, longevity, and soul — especially in underground dance music where those things still matter.

If you’re a producer, DJ, dancer, label owner, or lifelong listener — this one’s for you.

In this first episode of The Listening Practice, Coflo breaks down “Salutations”, a track from the EP Infinite Salutations.

This is a behind-the-scenes walkthrough of how the song came to life — from the original idea to the final arrangement — created in collaboration with Grammy-nominated artist Emmaculate and featuring QVLN.

Coflo explores the story behind the record, the creative decisions that shaped it, and dives into individual parts and stems to unpack the rhythm, harmony, and emotion that make the track work.

This episode isn’t about tutorials or presets — it’s about listening deeper, understanding process, and learning how records evolve through collaboration and intention.