We Do Recover, the new album from Powell and his first album proper on his own Diagonal Records, is a vitalising record of recovery and a statement of reassurance. The music is intensely emotional and lean, and forms a uniquely expressive story that opens up new ground in the artists’s bizarre continuum of synthesised sound — this time triggered by experiences of grief and addiction.   

The suicide of one of his life-long friends in 2024 was a life-changing loss which eternally altered Powell’s life, and consequently his music. A period of recovery followed, one accompanied by the assembling of this album from hours of music made between 2018 and 2025. “After my friend’s death I felt I went into a tailspin, but really, I was already in one,” he says. “I found myself unable to handle anything – my way of coping was always to run away and escape. I realised it was going to kill me, so I made some changes. It made me see the music I had been making through a different lens, one that mirrored my experience of recovery. It’s not linear, it’s often difficult, but there is beauty there if you look hard enough. I wanted it to be a message of hope, if only for myself.”  

Powell has existed of late in an intensive mode of creation that utilises stochastic processes (probabilistic events) and a particular sonic palette. But where previous releases – such as the many prongs of his a ƒolder project, or the hyper-synthetic Piano Music 1—7 on Editions Mego – interrogated and developed formal processes for synthesised sound, on We Do Recover the processes are subsumed as tools for expression. What unfolds is an extended suite of minimal music that articulates and traces an intensive period of upheaval, pain, and hope; tight envelopes of sonic architecture are led astray; energies explode beyond bounds previously set. We can feel the collapse of control, and an overflowing sense of something starting anew. It is, in turn, surprising, baffling and beautiful.

The story begins with the radiance and glittering synthetic tones of ‘All These Feelings’—like looking up into the vastness of the night sky. By track seven the wonder has become unsteady, with wayward keys, stochastic shapes, brittle fizz and hurried words emerging, unprompted, from the stillness. There is percussive brutalism in ‘Relapse’, and ’Afterlife’ brings weight and solemnity in its funereal refrain. Four-to-the-‘floor ‘Newborn’ turns the lights on as an equilibrium of sorts is sought and wrestled with, before ‘So Rivers Plunge’ sings like nobody’s listening — a MIDI orchestra warming up in the box while the laptop remains asleep. Closing track ‘The Bitter End’ is no ending at all, instead promising a future in shimmering torques, caught on the wind of hope. It returns to us, with renewed awe, the starlight we began with. 

WDR LIVE will premier as an expanded audio-visual show in London at the ICA in London on 4th October — a specially-curated evening of mutant electronic music featuring Florian Hecker and Marcin Pietruszewski, and as a rare live appearance of Concrete Fence (Regis x Russell Haswell). The show continues Powell’s ongoing collaboration with Swiss filmmaker Michael Amstad and Norwegian visual artist Marte Eknæs, who worked on the film/image component of a ƒolder. Amstad and Eknæs also took the photograph on the album cover, a technicolour image of a pregnant male seahorse, its swollen belly at once fragile and beautiful.

WDR is the first full-length solo album Powell has ever released on his own label Diagonal – all other releases have been EPs, 12”s, or collaborations — and so it represents a landmark in his catalogue in more ways than one. “I nearly added a question mark to the album title,” he says. “Recovery is a long process, and the album reflects that. There’s a lot of short termism in the world right now, but recovery, in whatever guise, is the opposite of that… It takes time.” 

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808 State - Pacific State
LFO - LFO
Silver Bullet - 20 Seconds to Comply (Instrumental)
Orbital - Chime
Stakker - Humanoid
Tyree Cooper - Turn Up the Bass
Doug Lazy - H.O.U.S.E
Adonis - No Way Back
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Future Sound of London - PapuaÂ New Guinea
SL2 - On A Ragga Tip
Prodigy - Wind It Up (Remix)
Urban Hype - Trip to Trumpton
Mark Summers - SummersÂ Magic
Krush - House Arrest
Fresh 4 - Wishing on a Star
Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me
KLF - Last Train to Trancentral
KLF - 3am Eternal
Adamski - NRG
Richie Rich feat Ralphi Rosario - You Used To Hold Me (Instrumental)
Adamski - Killer
Coldcut - People Hold On
Bomb the Bass- Don't make me Wait
Nitro Deluxe - Let's Get Brutal
Nomad – Devotion
D--Mob - We Call It Acieed

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Baby Ford : Chikki Chikki Ahh Ahh : Ford Trax : Rhythm King
Future Sound Of London : Accelerator : Jumpin' & Pumpin'
Baby Ford : Oochy Koochy : Ford Trax : Rhythm King
Speedy J : Ping Pong : !ive : Hardhouse
Orbital : Impact USA (The Earth Is Burning - Diversion) : Diversions : FFRR
Plastikman : Glob : Sheet One : NovaMute
Baby Ford : Flowers : Ford Trax : Rhythm King
Giorgio Moroder : The Chase : Rusty Egan presents: Blitzed : Demon
Speedy J : Ginger : Ginger : WARP
Mouse on Mars : Die Seele von Brian Wilson : Vulvaland : Too Pure
Orbital : Input Out : 2 : Internal
The Orb : Toxygene : Orblivion : Island
The Orb : Molten Love (Berlin Session Film Mix) : Orbscure Trax / The Rare Excursions : Island
The Orb : Rose Tinted : Toxygene : Island
Speedy J : The Fun Equations : !ive : Hardhouse
Spacetime Continuum : Flurescence : Flurescence : Reflective
Plastikman : Ovokx : Sheet One : NovaMute
Mouse On Mars : Katang : Vulvaland : Too Pure
Tobias Freund : Uhh : Studio Works 1986-1988 : Non Standard Productions
Universal Indicator : [8] : [red] : Rephlex
Plastikman : Vokx : Sheet One : NovaMute
Spacetime Continuum : Subway : Sea Biscuit : Astralwerks
Gescom : Sciew Spoc : Gescom : SKAM
LFO : Simon From Sydney : Frequencies : WARP
Spacetime Continuum : Q11 : Sea Biscuit : Astralwerks
Universal Indicator : [10] : [green] : Rephlex
Baby Ford : New York : Ford Trax : Rhythm King
Gescom : [b2] : Motor : SKAM
Amorphous Androgenous : Fat Cat : Tales Of Ephidrina : Quigley
Mouse On Mars : Frosch : Vulvaland : Too Pure
The Sabres Of Paradise : Smokebelch II : Sabresonic II : WARP
The Sabres Of Paradise : Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix) : Sabresonic II : WARP

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This month's guest on Tom Val's Le Jazz Est Dangereux is Memotone (Will Yates), UK based composer and artist that has made his way into the ambient continuum these last years with his solo project (releasing records on World Of Echo, The Trilogy Tapes, Soda Gong...).

Tom Val : Le Jazz Est Dangereux with Memotone - 28 Septembre 2025

Tribal rhythms, heavy basslines and mystical atmospheres that activate your inner self. 
Co-founder of Ouroboros festival and audiovisual EWO collective, Verveine explores music without boundaries, blending ethereal ambient soundscapes with tribal percussions and dub-heavy basslines.

Verveine @ Kiosk Radio 05.10.2025

Hey everyone, Shine Grooves here.
It’s time to share a few highlights from all the releases I put out under my alias Quadrat back in the early 2010s. I picked one track from each release and compiled them into a new EP.
Fun fact: every Quadrat record was transferred straight to vinyl, completely unmastered — in other words, the distributor used my original files without any additional processing. I actually found this out many years later. Most likely, it was done just to save costs.
The new release we’ve put together with FAM has been properly remastered (or rather, mastered) — and it sounds great.

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Quadrat - Extrax 1-4(Sampler)

YOYO here's a recording of my FIRST EVER live set I'm showing in public ;-) first premiere at CLOSER this Saturday

Benedikt Frey LIVE @ HOME

soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/roxaneremy01/
instagram : https://www.instagram.com/roxane_rm?igsh=d242czJvajJkN3l1&utm_source=qr

Roxane @ GIMIC - 17 October 2025

Psycheterra by Exuvie, showcasing deep, meditative, ambient, terrestrial, cosmic, hypnosis, psychedelic music.

Exuvie
soundcloud : @xuvie
instagram : www.instagram.com/exuvie_/

Khey Mysterio
soundcloud : @kheymysterio
instagram : www.instagram.com/william_khey.mysterio



Psycheterra by Exuvie b2b Khey Mysterio @ GIMIC - 23 October 2025

THE BALCONY

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Simon Maurice - Harmony

This spring and summer, I was lucky enough to experience unique, first-time, exciting, and beautiful moments.
Yet, these moments melted away again in the flow of time.
What remains is a lovely but faint echo.

The (to me) beautiful melancholy of this track — with just a few brief flashes of bliss in its melody and arrangement — perfectly captures the emotional journey of my past months and helped me process it all.
Maybe you’ll feel it too.

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Ich durfte in diesem Frühjahr und Sommer einzigartige, erstmalige, aufregende und wunderschöne Momente erleben. Diese Momente schmolzen jedoch im Strom der Zeit  wieder dahin. Was bleibt ist ein schönes aber vages Echo.
Die (in meinen Augen) schöne Melancholie dieses Tracks mit wenigen kurzen Momenten der Glückseligkeit in Melodie und Arrangement drücken in meinen Augen perfekt die Gefühlsreise meiner letzten Monate aus und halfen mir dabei, all dies zu verarbeiten.
Vielleicht fühlt ihr‘s ja auch. 


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