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russell haswell - as sure as night follows day - diagonal - vinyl

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Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. Oblique Axis
2. Let's Go
3. Wholly Unaware
4. Champagne Walk
5. Rave Splurge Noise FM
6. Improvisation #1
7. In The Air Today
8. Gas Attack
9. Interlude
10. Drive (Minimal)
11. Heavy Handed Sunset
12. Underwater Electronic Struggle
13. Confirmation Of Our Worst Fears
14. Hardwax Flashback
15. Broken Mantra
16. Extended Industry Knowledge (For Oscar)
17. N0!se Rave

Noise demagogue and Diagonal mascot�s 2Nd Lp for the label !

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 asphyxiated R&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