Variant. Radius. Deepchord.

Variant - Vortexual [Element Six]

Radius - Interpolation [restoration 0.3]

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.” 

We Do Recover

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Powell 'Life' from We Do Recover [DIAG070]

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: John Darque - Unbelonging (Tadhe Remix)

Mastering by:
Brice Deloose at Incidence Studio

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Birdsong EP

Unbelonging (Tadhe Remix)

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𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: John Darque - Unbelonging (Tadhe Remix)

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This is an exclusive live set for HL 

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Human Lessons #116 - push ebp (Live set)

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Moments Eluding #7 w/ atoloi (@atoloi)

Tracklist:
Christian Coiffure - Cave Moss (Space Drums Meditation Remix)
The Untouchables - 86 Dread
Notte Infinita - Slippery Ruff
rizla ops - Juta
Dome Zero - Transition Dub
Midik - Tribes
Ma Sha - Sea Through Fantasia
Biome - afray
Simo Cell - Short Leg
Doctor Jeep (feat. Sim) - Oil Drum
Jurango - Rift
Midik - Clones
dBridge & Skeptical - Move Way
Skeptical - Static
The Untouchables (feat. Loxy) - X Gene
Low Khey - Protomagias Riddim
TSVI - Jinn

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Moments Eluding 10/25 w/ atoloi

What a lovely Sunday night at Hamburg’s legendary Golden Pudel Club! ❤️ ❤️❤️ Totally enjoyed playing live at this precious hotspot! 💥 Kudos to everyone who came to the party! ❤️ 

Big thanks to Richard von der Schulenburg (RVDS) for the invite and to Kris and the Pudel staff for the warm hospitality. 

Here's the recording of my live set (cheers again to Richard). 🙂

Enjoy!

Snuffo live at Golden Pudel Club (Hamburg, Germany)

"A slow descent into shadow: drones coil like incense smoke, subtle fragments flicker at the edge of perception, and a quiet ritual begins to take shape. The mix moves with the gravity of a half-remembered dream. An abstract journey carved from stillness, depth, and a darkness that never overwhelms, only draws you in."

Yoshitaka Shirakura (@user-309855222) is a Tokyo-based DJ and event organizer specializing in Techno, Ambient, and Avant-garde music. Since 2015, he has been actively booking avant-garde live performances at dance parties, bridging genres and expanding musical perspectives. In 2019, he began performing solo drone live sets using a bass guitar. Since 2022, he has also been performing live hardware sets.

HOCast #267 - Yoshitaka Shirakura

XCI, DJ and Producer from Lisbon. Disruptive figure who embraces visceral music such as Electro, industrial, EBM, bass music and slow rave as the key traits of his personality as a DJ.

The most striking aspect of his approach to DJing is the rawness with which he imagines connections and the unpredictability with which he brings them to life. He finds fluidity by avoiding patterns, provoking abrupt clashes, and taking risks with unconventional rhythms.

Follow artist - https://soundcloud.com/x-c-i

365⚡️XCI

We welcome Ben Kaczor back to Stólar. After his remix trio for "Fever Dreams", this record marks his first full EP on the label, joined by a tight and hypnotic remix from Tibi Dabo.

The sound sits exactly where it should. Pushing drums, crisp hats, deep chords and pads that open the room without softening the impact. Dreamy, but not sentimental. House that breathes, moves and holds pressure from start to finish.

A confident return, built for dancers who like their warmth with momentum.

get the vinyl here! 

https://stolar.bandcamp.com/album/st-lar-023-peace-in-mind 

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Ben Kaczor - Peace In Mind Preview

spooky & bassheavy sci-fi mix.

tracklist:

Das Muster - Die Zweite Welle (© brokntoys)
Dynarec - Influoncers (© New Flesh Records)
Anthony Rother - Destroy Him My Robots (© Psi49Net)
Zeta Reticula - Talking To Yourself (© Electro Records)
Carl Finlow - Conduit (Volsocs Orange Proplem Remix) (© Electrix)
Datawave - Red Light Nebula (Exhausted Modern remix) (© Crisis Records)
Decal - Recall Edit (© Satamile Records)
Steve Mac - Go Bang (Transparent Sound Remix) (© Jack Said What)
DJ Stingray 313 - acetylcholine (© lower parts)
Scan 7 - I'm Covered (© Deeptrax Records)
Sound Synthesis & Datawave - Modulation (© Ukonx Recordings)
Portrait - Halo (© Our Circular Sound)
Terra Form - Ghettotech (© Different Trax)
The Advent - Stassis V2 (© Cultivated Electronics)
Obergman - Chronostasis (© brokntoys)
Devine, emilyPLAY - Ontik (© dPulse Recordings)
Dark Vektor - Wires (© Titan's Halo Records)
Code Rising - Lifeformz (© Code Rising)
Hermeth - Devil's Reject (© La Forge)
The Hacker, Commuter - Roentgen PT1 (© Cultivated Electronics)
Zeta Reticula - Exploit (© Bass Agenda Recordings)
Terrestrial Access Network - Dragon (© Collin Sullivan)
Zeta Reticula - A2 (© Electrix)
Blawan - Spooky Fingers (© Ternesc)
Dexorcist - Rage Signal (© Simon Brown)
WEN feat. Riko Dan - Play Your Corner (Walton Remix) (© Keysound)

📸 by Veronika Rehm
IG: veronikarehm

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Deniro – a producer pur sang. Synthesizers are his way to communicate with the world. Deniro has been gradually emerging from the Dutch techno scene as one of the most exciting artists in Europe.

His music, markedly emotional and with roots in Detroit-inspired soul music, reflects over 15 years of isolation exploring his vintage machinery to then appear in the catalogues of labels such as TOKEN Records, Dekmantel or Tape Records Amsterdam, to which he is heavily bounded.
But it is also in the booth that he has proved to be an excellent sound architect, with sets that go beyond genres and whose contagious groove irrevocably binds us to the dance floor.

BADASH Podcast Series 030 | DENIRO

Intrusion - Intrusion Dub ( Phase90 Shape II )

Cv313 - Subtraktive (Remastered Original Mix)

https://echospacedetroit.bandcamp.com/album/a-gentle-embrace-variant-reshapes

Intrusion – A Gentle Embrace (Variant Reshape)

The fourth week of March. 2019.
Oslated Mix Episode 146 - mon0

Kreislauf, Test Tube, Sublime Porte, Recycled Plastics, Silent Season
Solingen
Germany

mon0 is a german based producer, who focuses on deep electronic music in all its facets.
Having released several excellent albums on Kreislauf, Test Tube, Sublime Porte, Recycled Plastics and Silent Season, he has spent quite some time refining his own special brand of deep ambient drones, dubtechno and rhythmic pulsing techno.
In addition to his albums, he is frequently releasing mixes and podcasts on spiel:feld, hello strange, Silent Season and Circles & Spheres.

mon0 는 모든 종류의 Deep 한 전자음악에 초점을 맞춘 독일을 기반으로 하는 프로듀서이다. 
그는 Kreislauf, Test Tube, Sublime Porte, Recycled Plastics, Silent Season 에서 훌륭한 앨범들을 발매하며, 그만의 고유한 Deep Ambient Drone 과 Dubtechno 와 Rhythmic Pulsing Techno 의 사운드들을 정제해왔다. 
그외의 믹스들은 spiel:feld, hello strange, Silent Season, Circles & Spheres 에서 찾아볼 수 있다.

- Translated by Taegyun Yoon

Discography
Submersion & mon0 ‎– Unison // Einklang [2018 / Silent Season]
Monophon [2014 / Recycled Plastics]
mon0 & Sub.Made ‎– Echoes [2013 / Sublime Porte Netlabel]
Monolog [2012 / Sublime Porte Netlabel]
Colliding Textures [2012 / Test Tube]
Monolith [2011 / Kreislauf]
Sensaura [2010 / Silent Season]
Monoplex [2010 / Kreislauf]
Elements [2009 / Kreislauf]
Multifidus [2009 / Test Tube]
Beyond [2008 / Test Tube]

Tracklist
1. Edit Select - Opening [Edit Select]
2. Pjotr G, Dubiosity - Design Argument [Planet Rhythm]
3. Dawn Razor - Shantor (Psyk Cinematic Version) [Anemone Recordings]
4. Charlie Thorstenson - Vinden [Default Position]
5. Birds ov Paradise - Tutor [Hypnus Records]
6. Primal Code - Morgana [Hypnus Records]
7. Citty - Difference [Circular Limited]
8. Feral - East Slope [Hypnus Records]
9. Primal Code - Varanasi [Hypnus Records]
10. Antonio Ruscito - Nube [Ascetic Limited]
11. Edit Select - Octave [Attic Music]
12. Drafted - Wildflowers [Edit Select]
13. Svarog - Working time [Illegal Alien]
14. Alex FX - Locust Swarm (Feat. David J) (Norbak Black Mix) [Dead Motion Records]
15. Memorial Home - Second Floor (Edit Select) [Rapid Eye Movement]
16. Joachim Spieth - Introspect [Affin]
17. Ossi di Mare - Cepheid Type 1 (Norbak Remix) [Dynamic Reflection]
18. Deepbass, Ness - Les Planes [Dynamic Reflection]
19. Svarog - Highway [Affin]
20. Cardao - Acid Andromeda [Quartz Rec.]
21. A Thousand Details - Burgondy [Dynamic Reflection]
22. Vinz Exe - 001011 [Circular Limited]
23. Gemini Voice Archive - Singularity (Inigo Kennedy Remix) [Soma Records]

https://soundcloud.com/mon0
http://mon0.de
https://www.facebook.com/onom.music

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Oslated Mix Episode 146 - mon0

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Oslated Mix Episode 146 - mon0

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