Vanterra Arts Reinvents Itself with an AI-Powered City Pop Album
Once known primarily as the personal label of composer Fred Vanterra and home to handcrafted albums like Mythanien and Waikiki Synth, Vanterra Arts has evolved. In 2025, it emerges as a playground for artistic experimentation with the generative powers of artificial intelligence.
The first, bold step in this new chapter is City Bops: an album deeply rooted in the sound and soul of Japanese City Pop, created through the collaboration between human vision and AI tools such as ChatGPT and Suno AI.
The story began unexpectedly, with a corporate track composed by Fred for MyHub Intranet Solutions. That single AI-generated Banger sparked a creative explosion: “I instantly knew, I don’t just want a song. I want a whole album,” Fred recalls. And within just one month, City Bops was born.
This isn’t a cold, mechanical product. It’s alive with feeling. City Bops is bursting with neon melancholy, rain-soaked romance, and urban introspection. Each track is catchy, atmospheric, and emotionally textured, sometimes bright, sometimes broken. From Neon Rain to Night Drive, the album captures fleeting moments of city life in vivid musical snapshots.
Behind the curtain, the process was anything but hands-off. AI may have provided initial sketches—but the heart, structure, lyrics, mixing, and final mastering were all Fred’s work. “AI gave me a wild garden,” he explains, “but it was still my job to design the paths.”
With City Bops, Vanterra Arts becomes more than a label, it becomes a persona. A space to explore digital identity, creative technology, and hybrid authorship. That’s why this release carries the name Vanterra Arts, not Fred Vanterra.
But fans of Fred’s previous works, fret not: the “handmade” orchestral and piano compositions that defined Mythanien and Waikiki Synth will continue. Vanterra Arts is expanding, not replacing. There will be more music, both from the heart and from the machine.
🎶 Listen to City Bops today on Spotify, Apple Music, and all major platforms.
