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.

willcalcutt.com
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GhostlyCast #49: Will Calcutt - Falling

Evil Plans Mix - Till Death Do Us Disco

Mix recorded for Chicago's Vocalo Radio. 
Aired on 23 September 2022

1. Male Tears - No Reflection
2. Zwischenfall - Flucht
3. Bozart - Dance & Trance
4. Switchblade Symphony - Wallflower (WLDV Edit)
5. Omri Smadar feat The Tractor’s Revenge - Mischak Shel Dmaot
6. Black Light Smoke - Maniac
7. The Buttons - Drift
8. Kaelan Mikla - Osynileg
9. French Police - Sonidera
10. Cold Colors - Tout Oublier
11. Les Animaux Sauvages - Antropofazi
12. Kalipo & Local Suicide - Wunderbar (Mufti Remix)
13. AhAtA - Street of the Informals (MMYYLO Remix)
14. NNHMN - Lovelorn
15. Oppenheimer MKII - Be My Wife (Mitra Mitra Remix)
16. Ohne Nomen - No Lights
17. Permanent Daylight - Shitty Old Movie

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The awesome French duo Club Bizarre from the amazing "Days of Being Wild" label present their special & spacial selection. So good it must be from outer space! Cosmic LOVE! ;) And dont miss Vol.1-6 on our soundcloud.

1/ Chromatics - Tick of the Clock (Hotel International Edit)
2/ Club Bizarre - Trip to Holy Land
3/ Italo Brutalo - Track 1
4/ Club Bizarre - Bazzanbasel (Moon Runner Rmx)
5/ Hotel International - 9 Semaines et Demi
6/ Mansisters - I love the way you hold my hips (Red Axes rmx)
7/ Jamie Paton - To the Light
8/ Andre Bratten - Be a Man you Ant
9/ Club Bizarre - Weird is Sonic (Bruce Trail Rmx)
10/ Gin Sling - Dwarf Star (Offset Rmx)
11/ Italo Brutalo - Track 3 (Club Bizarre Rmx)
12/ Mugwump & DC Salas - Caltrops
13/ Lokier - Voyage of Trouble
14/ Forty Fings Dynamo - 615 

CLUB BIZARRE - SPÆCIAL MIX 7

Mix recorded for Chicago's Vocalo Radio. 
Aired on 25 November 2022.

1. Sad Madona - Idole
2. Claus Fovea - We Are Machines
3. Krishna Goineau feat MCL - La Dance (Silent Servant Edit)
4.Massive Luxury Overdose - Drive
5. SPC ECO - Fall Apart for Love
6. Velvet Velour - Blood Moon
7. Kline Coma Xero - Living Without You
8. autoKratz - Fireflies 
9. The Secret French Postcards - Sides
10. FEVR - Did It Fall Away?
11. Las Eras - Frio
12. Sacred Skin - No Surprise
13. The Soft Moon - Become The Lies
14. Lineas Aereas - Landschaften (WLDV Edit)
15. Flood - Still Want You
16. Nümberg - Adny
17. Stereoskop - Under (Single Version)

iONS

Mix recorded for Chicago's Vocalo Radio. 
Aired on 27 Jan 2023


1. Be Dellow - I Loved You
2. Boytronic - You Can’t Be Fooled By Love (Flemming Dalum Remix)
3. Omri Smadar feat Siam - In The Realm Of 
4. Micro Chip League - Communicate (Curses Edit)
5. Mono Han - Tout Petit La Planete
6. Neon Amish & Space Echo ft. Tarek Farwati - Wake Up (Endrik Schroeder Cosmic Dub Remix)
7. Psyche - Anonymous Skin (Prevention Of Disharmony Mix)
8. Menthull - Au Revoir
9. Jorkes - Robot Lover
10. David Carretta - New Love (Original Mix)
11. TR/ST - Unbleached
12. Vogue.Noir - Belief
13. Ladytron - Faces
14. Hercules & Love Affair - Grace (Kris Baha Remix)
15. Amarcord feat Altutt - More Than Enough
16. Cetu Javu - Adonde (Razormaid Mix)
17. Carriegoss - Idees Claires

Support the artists. Most of this music is available on Bandcamp, Beatport, etc.

Null

I am proudly back to the eighties with few artists from the New Wave and Synthpop scene with this special mix. Such a crazy and inspiring decade from which I still discover rare tracks and excellent remixes. Enjoy!

Tracklist :
Rejekto (Presentation Mix) - Robotic Rejekto
Acetatechno - Lhasa
Electrica Salsa (PWL remix) - OFF
Bizarre Love Triangle (Razormaid remix) - New Order
The Great Commandment (US 12" Remix) - Camouflage
Ice Of Fire - East Wall
Radio Bostisch (Tune In Mix) - Voyou
Cccan't You See (French Extended Mix) - Vicious Pink
Lose Him (Razormaid remix) - I Start Counting
Always On My Mind (Extended Dance Version) - Pet Shop Boys
Can't Remix a Friend (Amarcord 'Love' Edit) - Schneebezen
In Blue (Razormaid remix) - Data
Porte Bonheur (Remix) - Hard Corps
Fools Gold - TGV
Unveiling The Secret - Psyche
Give Me The Love (Hysteric Edit) - Kinky Go

80s New Wave And Synthpop Mix

Mix recorded for Chicago's Vocalo Radio Friday Night DJ series show. Aired on 27 October 2023. 

Tracklist:

1. Carriegoss - Mirage
2. Sex Kino - Scream In The City
3. Boytronic - Hold On (My Boy Roy Edit)
4. Louis De Tomaso - Fatale Recall 5
5. Cosmetics - Pillow Talk (Alt. Version)
6. Boy Harsher feat Mariana Saldaña - Machina (Dark Remix)
7. Magic Wands - Sea Glass (Sea Foam) (Stargods Remix)
8. Tenderlash - Inferno (DX Cojo Twin Doors To Hell Remix)
9. Deadly Weapons - Trip to Madrid (Chinaski Remix)
10. Nuovo Testamento - Prayers
11. Krishna Goineau feat MCL - La Forgeron (Curses Edit)
12. Shona Laing - Soviet Snow (Popstand Remix)
13. Antipole & Paris Alexander - Perceptions
14. IAMX - Kiss and Swallow (Manix Remix)
15. Kalipo feat Local Suicide - Echoes of the Past
16. Deus Ex Lumina - Dark Days
17. Silver Tears - Always Shine (Wait for the Rain)

Expansions

Mix recorded for Chicago's Vocalo Radio. 
Aired on 23 February 2024

Track List

Curses - Get Lost
Skinny Puppy - Addiction (WLDV Edit)
Fee Lion - Baby (Visceral Anatomy Remix)
Buzz Kull - Fascination (M!R!M Remix)
Kontravoid - Judgement (Kris Baha Remix)
Lbeeze - Rage
Kendal & David Carretta - Creature
Selofan - Ist Die Liebe Tot?
Portion Control - Swerve
Billo - Traumerei
Rhys Fulber - Digital Tension
SDH - No Miracles
Bigod 20 - Body to Body (Razormaid Mix)
Black Light Smoke - Dead Zone
Noise Unit - Fargo Field
Abstraxion - Trip & Shake
Panther Modern - A.T.D.G
Years of Denial - City Lights
Autumns - The Texture of Stone

Meridian

Hi and Welcome to ITALO MODERNI mixes!

ITALO MODERNI's celebrate our #10 mix with The Robot  Scientsts @therobotscientists a mix of 2 hours with a differents signficants parts. 
ONLY VINYL!

We play Live and DJ set next week at Freedonia, Barcelona 02/10/2019 come to say hi! 

TIME TO DISCOVER:   
 
The Robot Scientists are Markus Schneider and Stefan Maurer, DJs, podcast curators @somethingspaecial and label owners (Emerald & Doreen) from Saarbrücken, Germany. @emerald-and-doreen-rec

MIX 1
Today we are listening  to a mix that refers to the best time of italo disco and we are lucky that The Robots scientists were at that time. Dancing in the best clubs and discovering the world of Italo disco. You can see the Robots Scientists so young at the photo ... wanting to have fun and sure that with passion for electronic music of the moment.
That era had to be so magical, to discover new sounds and new italo bands and surely many of them are not famous at all. The first mix is an example of the most underground and rare Italo disco music that could be heard in the 80's. It's so nice to meet people who could enjoy that feeling and who can also transform it into a mix as fabulous as this one.

MIX 2 1:20:00

Time passes and you have to know how to adapt to the moment and the situation of electronics today, the clear example is the record label of Emerald & Doreen Records stamp that has published great artists such as Skatebard, Alexander Robotnick, Pardon Moi etc. Knowing how to adapt the Italo and what is new now is not easy ... so The Robots Scientists knows very well what to choose to define the style of the label. The second part of the mix is a clear example of not losing the Italo style ... but with electronic sound now. A masterclass of catchy and super danceable rhythms. It is difficult to maintain the style when you have lived at different times ... but they dominate it perfectly.

The Robot Scientists became known initially through myspace in 2008 with their Musica Da Batticuore retro-disco mix series and are now highly respected worldwide for their sophisticated „hits only“-selections and energetic live sets. Their sound is always hypnotic, melodic and futuristic, very emotional, always uplifting, at times melancholic. They play 80s-infused contemporary Psychedelic House, Dark Disco, Space Disco and some retro Italo/New Wave Dance hits. Their eclectic live sets are inspired by DJ legends like DJ Harvey, Daniele Baldelli, Todd Terje and Gerd Janson, but with a unique robot soul twist you will love.

History 

Stefan and Markus met again in 2008 in Saarbrücken, after exactly twenty years without seeing and hearing from each other. Markus was just back from studying and working all over Germany, so they haven't met after their common school days which ended in 1988. As teenagers, they had played in the same basketball and football teams and DJed Italo Disco and New Wave vinyl records together at school disco parties. In the middle of the 1980s, they became heavily influenced by their DJ-godfather Ronald Springer who was the resident DJ at their local discotheque called "Chic" in their hometown Völklingen at the border to France. Ronald, who died far too early in 2016, had worked at the Studio 54 and the BBC before and brought the Italian, Belgian and Dutch club sound to the Saarlandish club which was the second biggest in the South-West after the Dorian Gray in Frankfurt. Back then, both invested every Deutschmark they had into the best italo disco records Ronald played on Saturdays. They bought them at their local record store „Musiktruhe“ where numerous Chic-goers demanded the hottest underground Italo tracks on a weekly basis. Records were sold in masses, you could even get Italo Disco imports from Mr.Disc or Il Disc there and underground Italo classics like Mr.Flagio, Charlie and Doctor's Cat for a price of 12,90 up to 14,90 Deutschmark.

IM #10 MIX : The Robot Scientists Mix (Emerald & Doreen Records / Something Spaecial)

James Holden’s modular synths already locked hands with the late Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, now his son, Maalem Houssam Gania, is continuing his father’s legacy-exploring the rich Gnawa tradition. Don’t miss out on this excellent collaboration, live from Atlas Electronic.

James Holden & Maalem Houssam Gania | Atlas Electronic

Chicago from the start. 
Djing since 1986.

Producer/DJ for EchoDroides (http://soundcloud.com/echodroides) which is a collaboration with Frank Delamora. 

Owner of Worker Droides Records, which was started to self release our music.

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