Lose the map.

The borders that crop up when people take genres seriously have never been all that useful.  With electronic music it has been especiallyfruitless to try and map the shifting sands; where does nu-proto-tech-gaze end and afro-schaffel-disco-wave begin?

The idea of taking an aimless road trip through music brings a little romance back to into the picture. We can leave hash tags, recommendation algorithms and linkbait articles like "The Top Ten Trip-Hop Songs About Lists" behind in some grey concrete terminal city industrial park. Get the car out onto the road and go where things take you. Pull your eyes up from the screen in your hand and lose the sterile GPS voice hectoring you about missed turns.  If you need to pass the slower cars by driving on the dirt median with your headlights off in the dead of night, so be it. It's OK to lose the map, you'll still get to where you need to be.


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FALLING track list

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"I got plenty of time" - W.W.

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Smashing Pumpkins - Eye
Rimar - Don't Say ft. Joseph Andrew Cross
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - Last Call (When Space is the Bass)
Sailor and I - Tough Love (Aril Brikha Remix)
Homework - Whipped Cream (Darabi Remix)
Jarvis Cocker - Discosong (Pilooski mix)
Pional - Just Passing Through
Joakim - Labyrinth (Junior Boys Remix)
Ryo Murakami - Late Fall
Hector - Follow the Leader
Saint Petersburg Disco Spin Club & Lipelis - I Need It (Leaves Remix)
Cocolores - Shox
Cameo Culture - Parts of You and I
Octet / Dirty Edits - Euro vs Dollar (Pilooski edit)
Caribou - Leave House (MCDE Remix)
Trickski - Past Sense
Martin Dawson & Jay Shepheard - Obey Your Aul
Aloe Blacc - Loving You is Killing Me (Mano le Tough remix)
Magic Mountain High - Untitled 02
DMX Crew - I Won't Forget
Innerspace Halflife - Phazzled
Oxtongue - Delight Fur - Knots
Sei A - Flicker (Party Baron Remix)
Phil Kieran - Love Wish
Trentemoeller - Even Though You're With Another Girl (Kollektiv
Turmstrasse Remix)
Primal Scream - Autobahn 66
Reptile Youth - Black Swan Born White (Mark E Remix)
Divine Fits - Flaggin' a Ride
Tchaikovsky - None But The Lonely Heart (perf. by Ian and Jennifer Partridge)

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Artwork: The Ninth Wave (c. 1850) by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Will Calcutt is a photographer, filmmaker, art director and technologist living in New York City.

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GhostlyCast #49: Will Calcutt - Falling

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