BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 3rd January 2019
Max Reinhardt presents a pulsing, genre-splicing mixtape from Hamburg techno legend, the musician and DJ Helena Hauff.
An expert in the art of the mix, Helena became obsessed with DJing in her teens after a particularly life-changing night at a techno club, and soon became a resident at Hamburg’s notorious basement bar the Golden Pudel. Alongside her mixing, she began to make live tracks with vintage synths and drum machines.
It was there that she met Darren Cunningham aka Actress, and through him released her first EP on Ninja Tune in 2013. Two years later, she released her debut full-length album, Discreet Desires, named one of Rolling Stones magazine’s top 20 electronic albums of that year. Her latest release Qualm was unapologetically raw, described by her as the product of “trying to create something powerful without using too many instruments and layers”.
Over the past five years, she’s become one of the most sought after and respected selectors, touring the world with expertly curated DJ sets spanning acid, electro, EBM, techno and post punk and headlining festivals like Sonar and Dekmantel.
Helena’s mixtape reflects her love of crate digging, from ‘70s library music and Yusef Lateef to psychedelic stoner rock and Meredith Monk, and of course a good dose of techno and leftfield electro.
Produced by Katie Callin for Reduced Listening.
Stringtronics - Mindbender [Vadim Music]
Mike Steiphenson - Dreams [Disques Vogue]
Chico Mello - Dança [m=minimal]
XVARR - Quasi-Hypnotic [Thuluth]
Yusef Lateef - Lowland Lullabye [Atlantic]
Felix Kubin & Das Mineralorchester - Hexen [Dekorder]
Michael Weisser & Otto Luening & Vladimir Ussachevsky - Untitled [Weltraum]
John Bender - Meat
Freakthemachine - Panzerkreuz 1035 [Panzerkreuz Holland]
The Kings Of Frog Island - In Memoriam [Elektrohasch Schallplatten]
Friendsound - Childsong [RCA Victor]
Meredith Monk - Gotham Lullaby [ECM]
Intro (320kbs-m4a/7mb/3mins)
Outro (320kbs-m4a/4mb/2mins)
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