Pre-Order: Diagram - Short Circuit Control

New album 'Short Circuit Control' out April 25 2025 on P.U.G Records. Available to pre-order now on Transparent Blue vinyl. US pre-order here.

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Berlin-based outfit Diagram announce new album Short Circuit Control and share the first single Dub Boy. With Short Circuit Control, Diagram re-emerges with a refined yet unpredictable sound, a testament to resilience, collaboration, and the endless possibilities of analogue synthesis.

Built on mechanical rhythms and eerie textures, Short Circuit Control plays with tension and release, its analogue pulse imbued with a restless, human energy. There's a hypnotic, almost ritualistic quality to the music, where modular synths hum and crackle, beats loop and fracture, and melodies emerge like ghostly transmissions from some distant, flickering signal. The result is an album that feels both controlled and unpredictable—moody, immersive, and always teetering on the edge of something unknown.

What began as a bedroom project by Hákon Aðalsteinsson (The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Third Sound) culminated in the debut album Transmission Response (2019, Fuzz Club), a raw and exploratory work that set the foundation for what was to come. When Fred Sunesen joined, Diagram evolved into a live act, carving out a space for itself in Berlin’s underground music scene.