Katlego Sekhu
Calvin Fallo on building a sound from scratch, the AI debate, and why he turned a remix into something of his own.
Calvin Fallo recently sat down with My Top 10 at 10 with Tbose for an honest conversation about his journey in music.
His route in began quietly, at a keyboard and a computer, long before anyone around him understood what he was building.
“I started out just programming music on a keyboard.”
For a long stretch he was making music that few people believed in, and the people closest to him only really grasped what he was doing once the work was already out in the world.
“I had to prove myself first. People only found out about the music after that.”
The early days asked for sacrifice. Money was tight, and recording a single track meant saving up before he could even get into a studio.
“We had to save money just to record. That was the first song we ever did.”
Much of the conversation turned to artificial intelligence, a subject he has clearly thought hard about. For Fallo, the question is not whether AI can make a sound. It is whether that sound can carry anything real.
“AI can make the music. But emotion has to come from somewhere.”
He also spoke about the realities of working with session artists, many of whom are willing to collaborate but are tied to contracts elsewhere.
Then there is Seven Steps. The track began life as a remix request, but Fallo could not bring himself to simply rework someone else’s idea.
“You only remix something you can make better. So I made my own.”
With more compilations on the way, Fallo seems less interested in chasing a single moment than in building something that lasts.
Watch the full interview with Calvin Fallo on YouTube.
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