Diagonal has never really been the place for techno, but by bending, warping and crunching the genre out of shape it can fit; like a parallelogram bashed to shape a nonagon. It’s these broken remnants and off cuts from the misfitting pieces that Diagonal celebrates, with Kohei Matsunaga, whose music as NHK yx Koyxen has always managed skirt the edges between what’s considered functional for the dancefloor and totally leftfield, delivering the label its most concentrated album of ‘club music’ yet.
Kohei Matsunaga returns to the label with Doom Steppy Reverb.
Ren Schofield is due to release a five-track EP on Oscar Powell and Jamie William’s label.
Diagonal will release an album of ‘citric pop’ from the Streetwalker man.
Gobstopper Records, Contort, Diagonal and Subtext make the grade for February.
During a 2015 Juno Plus interview to discuss the demise of his Walls partnership with Sam Willis, Alessio Natalizia let slip that he’d signed a deal to release the next Not Waving album on Powell’s Diagonal label. He promised that it would be “very different” and, more specifically, “very intense”. Those with an intimate knowledge of Natalizia’s work as Not Waving will know that he’s always been capable of moments of blackened intensity and droning noise. Clear industrial influences bubbled up amongst the experimental ambience, heart-felt post-rock textures and twinkling asides that marked out his Voices cassette series and the excellent Human Capabilities album on Emotional Response.
Watch the clip for “I Know I Know I Know” from Alessio Natalizia’s debut album on Diagonal.
The latest album from the London-based Italian will arrive next month on Diagonal.
An icon of Detroit techno meets the Diagonal ‘label mascot’ with unstoppable results.
Alessio Natalizia’s ever developing project has a one-sided 12″ due ahead of a full album next year.
Nic Tuohey and Rose Mardit reflect on the most recent edition of the revived Berlin festival, picking out six highlights of the programme.
The ‘label mascot’ will release a new album As Sure As Night Follows Day next month.
The unpredictable outfit debut on Jaime Williams and Powell’s label with a two-part twenty-minute study.
The Alter Stock man is on hair-raising form with a remix contribution to Blood Music’s upcoming new Diagonal release.
The Nation affiliate will make his live debut in London next month at the Dalston venue for an event that features Not Waving and Trevor Jackson.
Bronze Teeth pair Dom Butler and Richard Smith show off a different side to their productions with their new Green Gums project on Diagonal – stream a track here.
The Japanese producer’s Hallucinogenic Doom Steppy Verbs EP also features collaborations with XiX.
The UK label Diagonal rounds out a stellar year with remixes from one of its founders, Powell’s Club Music release. Somehow the label has managed to persuade Ancient Methods and Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H Kirk to rework tracks from the record with predictably impressive results. Now just a solo act, it sounds like Ancient Methods is channeling the spirit and sound of 80s industrial and EBM on his two remixes which seemingly contain source elements of all three tracks from Powell’s original record.
The label will round out a banner year with new releases from its lanky founder and its Cleveland correspondent.
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