DJ Airwalk - GenesisGrid Technologies (2024)

The title of the album is GenesisGrid Technologies, named after a telecommunications corporation that I made up. When I was writing this album early last year, I had become obsessed with cell phone towers. They had become beautiful to me, both structurally and how they connect people.

I made up a story to go along with these songs I was writing - a post-apocalyptic world where these towers are still standing even after humanity is long gone. Built by GenesisGrid Tech, they would be sentient and fitted with artificial intelligence that allows them to emotionally process the messages that are coming in and out.

When the messages stop coming in and the humans that were tasked with taking care of these skeletal obelisks are gone, the towers begin to power down. The last tower standing, in its dying breath, begins to filter through all the messages that were sent through the network and attempts to make sense of them. Families reaching out to each other, love letters, government officials, etc.

This last tower begins to send out messages of its own, to no one in particular. The messages became the songs of this album.