Discreet Desires, by Helena Hauff

Discreet Desires

by Helena Hauff

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bobvanh some brilliant haunting pieces in there

Nathan Duin A truly excellent and inventive record. The rare release that doesn't give up all its secrets within the first few listens. Favorite track: L'Homme Mort.

Niccolo Brown Having battered techno into submission on her recent, excellent "Lex Tertia" EP, Helena Hauff delivers a debut album that hauls electro over the coals in similarly uncompromising fashion. "Discreet Desires" is a moody beast that doesn't mince its 808s, but tracks like the skittering "L'Homme Mort" and the calliope gone critical gallop of "Piece Of Pleasure" betray Hauff's ear for a searing melody. Bruising but beautiful. Favorite track: L'Homme Mort.

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1.	Tripartite Pact 03:16	buy track
2.	Spur 04:18	buy track
3.	Sworn to Secrecy Part I 01:41	buy track
4.	L'Homme Mort 07:17	buy track
5.	Funereal Morality 04:34	buy track
6.	Piece of Pleasure 05:24	buy track
7.	Tryst 06:18	buy track
8.	Sworn to Secrecy Part II 03:54	buy track
9.	Silver Sand & Boxes of Mould 03:09	buy track
10.	Dreams in Colour 01:41	buy track

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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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released September 4, 2015

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