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Sheep Music: RetroForge Records Interview Special
For this Radio LOHRO special, host Carsten Schaefer speaks with the anonymous creator of RetroForge Records about how the project began, how complete albums are shaped and where human direction fits into an AI-assisted process.
What the conversation covers
- The October 2025 experiment that grew into a catalogue of connected albums and imagined musical timelines.
- The concept-led workflow behind music, sequencing, lyrics, artwork, liner notes and release presentation.
- Transparency about AI-generated recordings and the human role in direction, selection, revision and curation.
- Copyright, consent, employment and why AI projects and human musicians do not have to be opponents.
- Anonymity, listener reactions and the ambition to build RetroForge into a broader music archive.
About this edition
The answers were supplied in writing and presented in German. To protect the owner’s privacy, the voice in the programme was processed with AI. The broadcast also includes music from the RetroForge catalogue.
This page provides an editorial overview only. The automated YouTube transcript and the complete written answers are not reproduced.
The programme and interviewer
Sheep Music is Carsten Schaefer’s weekly Radio LOHRO programme, broadcast on Saturdays from 19:00 to 21:00 and ranging from classic and progressive rock to singer-songwriters and pop.