{"title":"Russell Haswell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Coventry, UK, Russell Haswell was born in 1970. With a diverse range of talents and interests, he has made a name for himself as an influential figure in the music industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for his experimental approach to sound, Haswell's work often pushes the boundaries of traditional musical genres. Drawing inspiration from artists such as *Gábor Lázár*, *Powell*, and *Pita*, he creates unique compositions that challenge conventional notions of rhythm and melody.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaswell's innovative style has earned him recognition from both critics and fellow musicians alike. Collaborating with renowned artists such as *Mika Vainio* and *Kevin Drumm*, he continues to push the limits of what is possible within the realm of electronic music.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"as-sure-as-night-follows-day-2","title":"As Sure As Night Follows Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e'As Sure As Night Follows Day' is Russell Haswell's landmark second album for London's Diagonal Records. Consolidating a quarter-century at the coal face of extreme computer music, techno and death metal in 19 tracks and 49 minutes, it's Haswell's most coherent yet varied burst of activity to date - zigzagging from improvised n0!se outbursts and as- phyxiated R\u0026amp;B to a brace of thundering acid bullets that positively froth for the 'floor. The album was extracted over a fast-working period in late 2014, and is best perceived as a sort of fractured regression to his formative influences: you can hear the picnoleptic recollections of grindcore shows in the Black Country; the refracted shades of mega-raves at Coventry's Eclipse; the conflating toxic texture-memories of early Japanese noise; and the incandescent stomp of Mills and Hood in that early 90s phase. Fortunately for the ravers, this album includes some of Haswell's most direct dance floor attacks to date. 'Hardwax Flashback', for instance, finds him in pure tekno panik mode - a four-to-the-floor wrecking ball groove that someone, somewhere, may even be able to mix. 'Gas Attack' distils his penchant for all things Belgium into a vicious strain of New Beat lactic acid. Haswell then doffs his cap to Detroit electro legends Drecxiya on 'Underwater Electronic Struggle' - a story goes that he once thrashed a jet-ski all over the Mediterranean while listening to 'Wave Jumper' in his 'phones - before he does the salty freestyle electro flex 'ting on 'Industry Knowledge  (For Oscar)' while reminding his trusty apprentice, Powell, that he still has a lot to learn. In between these 'floor-flexers, we find more freakish disturbances and intrusive drum-box improvisations: the modular mind-floss of 'Rave Splurge Noise' or 'Noise Rave', for in- stance, or the self-explanatory 'Improvisation #1'. 'In The Air Today' investigates warehouse-ready electro-acoustic percussion, while the chaotic clusters of 'Interlude' swarm and invade your senses with psychoacoustic incision. This is Diagonal and Russell at their most fucked up and fizzy, and an important reminder of the artist's stream-of- consciousness genius - and the pressing need for more chaos and unpredictability in electronic music today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diagonal","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50392490049867,"sku":"2046120","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50392488411467,"sku":"393729","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/As_Sure_As_Night_Follows_Day_f9da9b38_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726408975"},{"product_id":"37-minute-workout-vol-2-2","title":"37 Minute Workout, Vol. 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eKeenly awaited follow-up to Russell Haswell's groundbreaking n0!ze-tekno classic of 2014 '37 Minute Workout', a spontaneously combusting mix of analog\/digital synths and modular systems edited on a computer and inspired by a visit to CERN, The European Organisation for Nuclear Research. Highly recommended if yr into Xenakis, The Latin Rascals, Incapacitants, Jeff Mills, UR, Yasunao Tone... There are few artists who can genuinely make music that sounds like your needle and\/or record is melting, but Russell Haswell is one of them. His 2nd volume of extremely kinky calisthenics is a potent example of daring to be different in a world where exponentially increasing production options are leading producers of all stripes to the exact same conclusions. But, with thanks to Russell's iconoclastic intent, restless nature and ascetic aesthetics, he still sounds quite like nobody else, and, even better yet, doesn't give a shit if you like it or not. Crowbarring cues ranging from the Latin Rascals to Incapacitants and Jeff Mills into 7 wickedly awkward designs, Haswell keeps his avant aerobics radically irregular as he hops from the tendon-twitching angularity of 'The Wild Horses of the Revolution have arrived Without Knight' to steel-hoofed clatter in 'Central Crisis Management Cell' and the lacquer-eating dynamics of 'Painful Memories From The Past Need To Be Acknowledged', before toning a proper nasty acid special in the UR inversion 'Dancing on the Head of an Eagle', and seemingly sucking your brain out thru a straw with 'Starting Something You're Not Able To Finish', with the dry witted, skeletal jazz-funk squirm of 'Diplomatic Cocktail Circuit' closing the party down in style.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diagonal","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50431882494283,"sku":"2045984","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_89ed9623_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726860568"},{"product_id":"double-a","title":"Double A","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis entirely improvised session captures Russell in the wild, trapped between daemonic nO!se and snapjaw drum patterns nodding to early Omar Santana or Carlos Berrio and his own past as a go-to studio editor for labels such as Mute. The A-side is a slyly arousing but terrifying thing called 'Foxy' meshing masticated noise gristle to manic, chattering hi-hats, all angled and affective like a box of knock-off fireworks hoyed at the 'floor. Flipside is even better, a flashback to the untouchable edits of late '80s Latin Freestyle and the hyperfunktional percussive grammar of Cabaret Voltaire, Ministry or Mayday.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diagonal","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50443179819339,"sku":"2046574","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_b7d92afc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727010205"},{"product_id":"lp-12","title":"LP + 12\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoventry's most notorious export celebrates 50 years of existence with an expansive new set on Editions Mego.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving spent decades carving out his very particular niche which takes influence from a vast range of extreme music this is Russell's nostalgic nod to his influences whilst forging onwards with his perpetually unforeseen experience. Working in a variety of media over decades Haswell's belligerence towards his craft and critique of others has allowed him to operate in a zone outside of peers. As daunting as it is refreshing Haswell's output is always on the very edge of genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaswell's ongoing output resides as a continuously in-flux, inquisitive and predominantly improvised exploration of the extreme limits of machine based art. Haswell has never been a 'studio artist' or 'producer'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12\" channels the original role of the medium with 2 tracks of beats that present themselves in unpredictable ways. 12\" also features the head shattering bonus cut, Always Check Their Instagram. LP cut at 33rpm allows explorations into broader territories with deep ambience running into twisted acid and splattered shapes bouncing amongst rapid fire rhythms,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis set is both a celebration of new forms whilst making many a sly nod to nostalgic influence throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50466178466123,"sku":"1107476","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/065fba89-26cb-43c0-a8b4-fe7a06ad7bac_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727307721"},{"product_id":"kasm-03","title":"Kasm 03","description":"\u003cp\u003eRussell Haswell is an artist, record producer, free improvisor, computer musician, noise aficionado and curator. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrained at Coventry School of Art, graduating in 1992, Russell’s extraordinary conceptual oeuvre resists easy summarisation, focused on the site-specific, performance and methodology of large-scale sound works, sometimes in surround sound. Russell has given solo audio presentations at major Art and Music festivals and events, in art galleries, concert halls, clubs, rock venues, and even squats in 30 countries, and counting. Most recently he has performed at Sonic Acts, Sonar, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca and Coventry Cathedral.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a curator, Russell has delivered projects for PS1\/MoMa, All Tomorrows Parties, Aldeburgh Music, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, and Cafe Oto. He now lives and works in Glasgow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded in real-time (ADDAC System, ALM\/Busy Circuits, Cwejman, Epoch Modular, FANCYYYYY Synthesis, Flight of Harmony, Instruo...)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Skam","offers":[{"title":"Black 10\"","offer_id":51189515125067,"sku":"2242664","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/KASM03_15d237d4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1738404601"},{"product_id":"deep-time","title":"Deep Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe indominable Russell Haswell returns! He's a restlessly forward-thinking, multi-disciplinary artist, performer and curator who calls Diagonal Records his home. His past collaborators include Aphex Twin, Gescom, Florian Hecker and Merzbrow. \"DeepTime\" is Russell's latest LP for the label following on from 2023's 'Reality Therapy'. Whilst \"Reality Therapy\" was an introverted affair, \"DeepTime\" is brimming with confidence and aimed squarely at the dance floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRussell's club friendly turns are resolutelyprogressivist. Whilst being informed by the works of Claude Young and Jeff Mills, his music feels like it was made in another dimension altogether. Title track, \"DeepTime\", \"Unconformity\" and \"Atropine\" all prove the point. It's techno but it's much more besides.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diagonal","offers":[{"title":"LP White","offer_id":51546963214667,"sku":"R7617-1121","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cover.ki-9.jpg?v=1743250278"},{"product_id":"let-it-go-1","title":"Let It Go","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt has been twenty-five years since the seismic events of 2001 - when twin towers collapsed under terrorist attack and Coventry's sonic insurgent Russell Haswell launched his inaugural salvo on the original Mego label with Live Salvage 1997–2000. The intervening era has delivered unrelenting turbulence: protracted wars, institutional corruption, a global pandemic, the resurgence of fascist currents, rampant media distortion, and omnipresent surveillance. For Haswell, a lifelong admirer of 1970s and 1980s dystopian cinema, the verdict is unequivocal: \"Science Fiction is now!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the face of this darkening reality,\u003cem\u003e Let It Go \u003c\/em\u003earrives as both acknowledgment and antidote. This new full-length on Editions Mego extends an olive branch through defiant sonic diversity—an unpredictable mosaic that embraces everything from propulsive rhythms to radical abstraction and enveloping ambience. True to Haswell's core practice, the material draws from the same tactile, free-improvised electroacoustic framework that powers his live sets: immediate, powerful and unscripted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album weaves reverent echoes of 1990s Detroit techno's hypnotic pulse and the abrasive, metallic edge of the Birmingham sound into fractured generative territories. Haswell returns to his computer-generated origins while integrating his recent modular-synthesis experiments. During a residency at the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK) in Norway, he harnessed the latest GRM Tools suite to conjure the volatile, \"rapidly fluctuating pitched sounds\" that characterized Iannis Xenakis' late electronic works—resulting in pieces such as Fall 3 and Fall 2, where instability becomes a form of vitality. The tracks Exit Downwards and The Anxieties Of Our Time whilst reflecting the currents of the release also offer surprisingly melodic patterns over jagged rhythms. The wryly titled Thu 25 Dec 2025, (recorded in Glasgow after a solitary post-Christmas-lunch walk home) is a vast drone which evolves according to the random walk model—known more evocatively as the drunken walk—each sonic step veering unpredictably, mirroring the disoriented lens of contemporary existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLet It Go\u003c\/em\u003e is liberation. Amid the cacophony of crumbling certainties, Haswell deploys a full arsenal of resistance: kinetic drive, disorienting rupture, quiet refuge, raw aggression, and tentative hope. In an age where dystopia has shifted from fiction to lived fact, this music asserts that possibility endures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsed = Acid Rain Technology, ADDAC System, ALM\/Busy Circuits, Apple, Audiofile Engineering, Beautiful Pieces of Outdated Technology, Composers Desktop Project, Cwejman, Epoch Modular, FANCYYYYY Synthesis, FORGE-TME, Future Sound Systems, ina\/GRM, iZotope, MOTU, Neutrik, SnazzyFX, Super Synthesis, Tip-Top Audio, Waves, Zynaptiq ...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced, Edited and Mastered by Russell Haswell in Glasgow, 2025-2026.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Mego","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":56816594977099,"sku":"R5563-7854","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cfb41e16-ebe9-c83a-4cb1-e71838d500c8.jpg?v=1773743899"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/russell-haswell.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}