Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires '2015

Tracks list

Tracks:
01. Tripartite Pact (3:16)
02. Spur (4:18)
03. Sworn to Secrecy Part I (1:41)
04. LHomme Mort (7:17)
05. Funereal Morality (4:34)
06. Piece of Pleasure (5:24)
07. Tryst (6:18)
08. Sworn to Secrecy Part II (3:54)
09. Silver Sand & Boxes of Mould (3:09)
10. Dreams in Colour (1:41)

Making her recording debut just two years ago in 2013, Helena’s first
release was a 3-track EP – Actio Reactio - on Actress’ Werkdiscs
imprint. She has since partnered with PAN (as Black Sites alongside F#x), Lux
Rec, Bunker sublabel Panzerkreuz and Texan cassette imprint Handmade Birds to
share her overtly analogue excursions into techno’s shadowy fringes,
improvised and recorded in her bedroom studio in Hamburg. Fully embracing her
love of hardware, Helena joined James Dean Brown’s legendary electronic
improv outfit Hypnobeat (founded back in 1983) in 2013, blazing a trail across
Europe with their intense polyrhythmic jam sessions on the TB-303, TR-707 and
TR-808. 

“I have the feeling it’s more one-to-one – you do something
and then the machine reacts. The machine has its own mind too, so it gives
something back.” 

Ten tracks deep, Discreet Desires is the embodiment of Helena’s
deep-seated beliefs about music as a radical force and unifying movement.
Something that is evident from her growing stature as a selector and her
enthusiasm for musical subcultures from punk to nu wave, industrial, krautrock
and avant garde electro – all of which were rooted in raw experimentation
and existed in polar opposition to the perfect, polished mainstream. 

“Perfection is pretty boring. It doesn’t really exist anyway…
only in death. Death is perfect.”

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