{"product_id":"wdntdnl014","title":"Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"430\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/211590143%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-CeUuN\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;visual=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/helena-hauff\"\u003eHelena Hauff\u003c\/a\u003e will release her debut solo album via Werkdiscs\/Ninja Tune on 4th September 2015. Titled \u003cem\u003eDiscreet Desires\u003c\/em\u003e, it’s the most in depth summation of the Golden Pudel resident DJ’s improvised one-take machine-funk to date.\r\n \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking her recording debut just two years ago in 2013, Helena’s first release was a 3-track EP – \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/release\/helena-hauff\/actio-reactio\"\u003eActio Reactio\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e - on \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/actress\"\u003eActress\u003c\/a\u003e’ Werkdiscs imprint. She has since partnered with \u003cstrong\u003ePAN\u003c\/strong\u003e (as Black Sites alongside F#x), \u003cstrong\u003eLux Rec\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eBunker\u003c\/strong\u003e sublabel \u003cstrong\u003ePanzerkreuz\u003c\/strong\u003e and Texan cassette imprint \u003cstrong\u003eHandmade Birds\u003c\/strong\u003e 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, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/helena-hauff\"\u003eHelena\u003c\/a\u003e joined \u003cstrong\u003eJames Dean Brown’s\u003c\/strong\u003e legendary electronic improv outfit \u003cstrong\u003eHypnobeat\u003c\/strong\u003e (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.\r\n \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen tracks deep, \u003cem\u003eDiscreet Desires\u003c\/em\u003e is the embodiment of \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/ninjatune.net\/artist\/helena-hauff\"\u003eHelena\u003c\/a\u003e’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.\r\n \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Perfection is pretty boring. It doesn’t really exist anyway… only in death. Death is perfect.”\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ninjatune","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":44934235455647,"sku":"WDNTCD014","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"2xLP","offer_id":44934235488415,"sku":"WDNT014","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/8563\/5999\/products\/discreet-desires-main.jpg?v=1736246435","url":"https:\/\/merch.ninjatune.net\/products\/wdntdnl014","provider":"Ninja Tune","version":"1.0","type":"link"}