DIAGONAL RECORDS – 13th Anniversary tour continues with new DJ additions for White Hotel
DIAGONAL RECORDS 13th ANNIVERSARY TOUR CONTINUES WITH NEW DJ ADDITIONS –
ROB BROWN (GESCOM / AUTECHRE) AND LUPINI (NTS) – FOR MANCHESTER
SAT 16 NOVEMBER – EXIT, GLASGOW (7pm-11pm)
Powell, Not Waving, Russell Haswell,
Scott Gordon, The Modern Institute, TRSSX
SAT 30 NOVEMBER WHITE HOTEL, MANCHESTER (7pm-12am)
SOTE, Powell, Russell Haswell, Not Waving,
Rob Brown DJ (Gescom / Autechre), Lupini DJ (NTS)
LP1 FROM THE 4-DISC BOX SET AVAILABLE ON 15 NOVEMBER
Diagonal Records have announced Rob Brown (Gescom / Autechre) and Lupini (NTS) as last-minute surprise DJ additions to the early evening show at Manchester’s White Hotel on Saturday 30 November. Tickets are available HERE.
The White Hotel show is the final in Diagonal’s 13th Anniversary Tour, which continues on Saturday 16 November with a show at Exit in Glasgow featuring Powell, Not Waving, Russell Haswell, Scott Gordon (Oto Hiax, Editions Mego), The Modern Institue and TRSSX. Final release tickets are now available HERE.
2024 marks Diagonal’s 13th year, shifting out of childhood into awkward teenage years, and Oscar Powell and Jaime Williams’ label celebrate this with a multi-faceted family portrait more than three years in the making over 4×12”s.
The first LP in the series, featuring Autechre, Russell Haswell, Turner-Prize winning visual artist Wolfgang Tillmans, Powell and NHK, spans hyper-acoustic computer music, future-techno à la Cybotron from the year 2048 and twisted pop. LP1 is out on 15 November 2024 as a standalone release. Pre-order LP1 HERE
LP1
A2 VIVIANKRIST / Creatures
B1 Powell Tillmans / Stairwell
B1 Powell Tillmans / Stairwell
B2 NHK / Binah
B3 Russell Haswell / Hypersonic
B3 Russell Haswell / Hypersonic
13, the full 4-piece vinyl collection, was designed by Guy Featherstone and is bound together with rubber bands – reflecting a label that has always been elastic in its modes of connecting people and music: “The music is what binds us together, but all the artists are characterised by a certain spirit of independence,” says Powell. The tracks across these releases reflect the label’s catalogue, making connections between electronic experimentalism, club productions, avant-garde sampling and vanguard computer music, in wriggling energies, uneasy rhythms and righteous individuals working in abrasive, esoteric, noisy or unhinged modes.
As well as the 12”s, the label also releases a book designed by Guy Featherstone, with texts by Jonnine Standish, Sue Tompkins, an interview with Powell by Jennifer Lucy Allan, and photo series by Marte Eknaes, Michael Amstad, Lorenzo Senni, Carl Kleiner and Sarah Lucas. “Sarah’s house was a kind of nesting ground for us in our late 20s,” says Powell, “we’d go out in East London and go back to Sarah’s – it was a total meeting point for us, and so she has a special connection to the label.”
“DIAG050,” Powell continues, “brings it all together and makes a physical tangible connection – the elastic bands are what we can throw around ourselves to keep us together. I still see the label as a reflection of our own interests,” says Powell. “There are always so many forces at play; questions over whether we should continue under pressure from changing tastes, the decline of the music press and other pressures. We realised some time ago that we needed to find a different way of operating; a different source of strength: it’s got to be about the music; about the family. We’re putting something out there, and one day I’ll show this all to my son, to show him what we did — what we all made together.”
Pre-order LP1 HERE
Full tracklist:
LP1
A2 VIVIANKRIST / Creatures
B1 Powell Tillmans / Stairwell
B1 Powell Tillmans / Stairwell
B2 NHK / Binah
B3 Russell Haswell / Hypersonic
B3 Russell Haswell / Hypersonic
LP2
A1 Powell / Nomad [Regis Remix]
A2 NOVO LINE / Miasme Drumapella
A1 Powell / Nomad [Regis Remix]
A2 NOVO LINE / Miasme Drumapella
B1 Streetwalker / Limelight
B2 Patiño / Skin Careless [DJ TOOL]
B3 Stabudown Productions / Moody Runes
B2 Patiño / Skin Careless [DJ TOOL]
B3 Stabudown Productions / Moody Runes
LP3
A1 Jim O’ Rourke / ror bypass
A2 Powell / Kate [featuring Kae Tempest]
A1 Jim O’ Rourke / ror bypass
A2 Powell / Kate [featuring Kae Tempest]
B1 Simon Pomery / Heard in the Womb
B2 Sote / Ataraxy [featuring Arash Bolouri on santour]
A2 L/F/D/M / Non Death
B1 Not Waving / Rolling in Thoughts
B1 Not Waving / Rolling in Thoughts
B2 Dale Cornish / Back in the Room
B3 EVOL / Wabbit Trax 7