Hugel has posted an Instagram reel breaking down the production of "Movin' to the Sun" track by track, responding to a viral claim from content creator 2hatfacts that the song started as an AI-generated song. The single reached number one on Beatport and became one of the most Shazamed tracks of the year, and Hugel used the video to separate what came from AI and what didn't.
The controversy traces back to Imael Angel, the Hungarian producer credited alongside Hugel and Ultra Naté on the single. Angel makes AI-generated deep house using tools including Suno and Udio, and released a track called “I’m Moving to the Sun” in April that went viral before Hugel’s team picked it up. In the reel, Hugel confirmed that Angel wrote the lyrics and part of the melody and ran them through Suno to generate an early version.
Hugel said he sampled pieces of Angel’s version and rearranged the track from there, including a new drop. He walked through the elements one by one: drums from stock and Splice sample packs, a Serum bass preset layered with a Moog line, a Rhodes and pad from a plugin he called Sky Keys, an extra piano recorded with Spectrasonics’ Keyscape, and a string layer for tension. FX came from Diva and Serum, plus what he called his favourite touch, a monkey sound effect buried in the track.
Ultra Naté recorded new vocals for the track. Hugel said the only AI-related step in the finished record was layering that vocal with a sample of Angel’s original vocal from the AI-generated version. “The AI was just used to do the layer of the vocal,” he said, “and everything in this session was human made.”
The episode is the latest case of a chart hit built partly from AI-generated source material, a pattern that has pushed platforms like SubmitHub to block AI submissions outright and majors like Universal to strike licensing deals with AI platforms rather than avoid them.
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