{"id":3021,"date":"2015-09-30T23:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T22:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/helena-hauff-discreet-desires-2lp\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T00:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:21:33","slug":"helena-hauff-discreet-desires-2lp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/helena-hauff-discreet-desires-2lp\/","title":{"rendered":"Helena Hauff &#8211; Discreet Desires &#8211; 2LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Helena Hauff<\/strong> released her solo album via <strong>Werkdiscs\/Ninja Tune<\/strong> on 4th September 2015. Titled &#8220;<strong>Discreet Desires&#8221;<\/strong>, it\u2019s the most in depth summation of the Golden Pudel resident DJ\u2019s improvised one-take machine-funk to date.<\/p>\n<p>Making her recording debut just two years ago in 2013, Helena\u2019s first release was a 3-track EP \u2013 &#8220;Actio Reactio&#8221; &#8211; on\u00a0 Actress&#8217; <strong>Werkdiscs<\/strong> 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\u2019s shadowy fringes, improvised and recorded in her bedroom studio in Hamburg. Fully embracing her love of hardware, Helena joined James Dean Brown\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have the feeling it\u2019s more one-to-one \u2013 you do something and then the machine reacts. The machine has its own mind too, so it gives something back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ten tracks deep, Discreet Desires is the embodiment of\u00a0 <strong>Helena<\/strong>\u2019s 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 \u2013 all of which were rooted in raw experimentation and existed in polar opposition to the perfect, polished mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerfection is pretty boring. It doesn\u2019t really exist anyway\u2026 only in death. Death is perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Werk Discs\/Ninja Tune<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Werk Discs\/Ninja Tune<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Helena Hauff<\/strong> released her solo album via <strong>Werkdiscs\/Ninja Tune<\/strong> on 4th September 2015. Titled &#8220;<strong>Discreet Desires&#8221;<\/strong>, it\u2019s the most in depth summation of the Golden Pudel resident DJ\u2019s improvised one-take machine-funk to date.<\/p>\n<p>Ten tracks deep, Discreet Desires is the embodiment of\u00a0 <strong>Helena<\/strong>\u2019s 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 \u2013 all of which were rooted in raw experimentation and existed in polar opposition to the perfect, polished mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerfection is pretty boring. It doesn\u2019t really exist anyway\u2026 only in death. 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