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HELENA HAUFF - RESIDENT ADVISOR RA.1000 MIX (320kbs/242mb/1hr46mins)
Resident Advisor podcast: 13th August 2025
When Helena Hauff made her first RA Podcast appearance back in 2013, she was on the eve of releasing her debut production, Actio Reactio, on Actress' Werkdiscs imprint. In the 12 years that have elapsed since, she's become not just a household name within electronic music, but the kind of rare talent that lives in impenetrable seclusion from industry tumult.
(Hauff, enviously, has never even owned a smartphone.)
Her calling card was and continues to be her penchant for rough and ready EBM, electro and new wave, recorded straight to tape. And while her selections are seemingly untethered to the trend cycles that dominate popular dance music culture, they have staying power. Her unique ability is creating a singular listening experience from otherwise disparate or out-of-favour tracks, with a raw immediacy that functions as a redress to overly-choreographed modern DJing.
The Hamburg icon showcases her outsider approach to selection once again in her mix for RA.1000. Threaded together by strobe-lit DIY electronica, old-school acid house and corrosive machine funk that chews up the ear, the nearly two-hour set pulls music from modern producers while explicitly nodding to electronic music's history.
In the sci-fi themed first half, Hauff drops not one but two Cybotron tracks, nodding to Juan Atkins' blueprint for the world of electro. You'll also hear "Riot" from Underground Resistance, the definitive mission statement for the Motor City techno collective for a world ablaze. Here, Hauff raises the bar once again, demonstrating how these songs and their sentiments continue to resonate through the ages. This is musical anarchism executed to the highest degree. - Chloe Lula
Cybotron - Earth
Little Computer People - Little Computer People (Karl Bartos Remix)
Mobile Space Unit - Penalty Dream
Klangwerk - Die Kybernauten
Scope - The Future (Cybotron Mix)
Calagad 13 - Super Jam (Xtndd)
Novamen - Bubblegum
Middle Men - Defeat The Object
Interfunk - Travel To Another Dimension
Excel - Don't Stop Now
Chaos - Afrogermanic
T.Linder - Wolfpack
T.Linder (feat. Blak Tony) - Leatherneck
The Martian - Skypainter
The Shadow - The Vision
6K - Exponential
Hazed - Bellchant
Joey Beltram - Orion
Sebastian S., Jessie Deep! - Escape
Lory D - Sickness
Underground Resistance - Riot
Oligo - Light Orbit
The AM - Sex Worker
uNN - Make Me Listen (Electro)
EDO8 - Voyager
Insync vs. Mysteron2 - Science Fact
Scan X - Higher
HELENA HAUFF - ESSENTIAL MIX 21.12.24 (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 21st December 2024
Helena Hauff is back with a brand new Essential Mix for the end of 2024!
T/Error - Post Human (Lloyd Stellar Remix) [LDI]
Christopher Ledger - Unpleasant Surprise [Tonomat Recordings]
Orlando Voorn - Outerworld [Trust]
AUX 88 - You don't want none of this [db classics]
Kid Ginseng - I Go Off [Kraftjerkz]
Gesloten Cirkel - Zombiemachine Acid [Murder Capital]
Model 500 - Night Drive (Thru-Babylon) [Metroplex]
Dark Vektor - Look into da fiucha [Fanzine]
Kosmic Messenger - Sounds And Spirits [Eclipse]
UR - Tramnsition [UR]
DJ Savage - Abaddon [TH Tar Hallow]
Lars Huismann - See You Soon [Dolly]
Joey Beltram - Ten Four [NovaMute/Tresor]
Max Watts & Huey Mnemonic - Echoes Of Change (Mnemonic Mix) [Limited Network]
CEM3340 - Vocè [Curtis Electronix]
The Implant - Panopticant (Assembler Code Remix) [Phoq U Phonogrammen]
Unklevon - Transed About U [Boysnoize]
Human Rebellion & Power - Fake Reality [Midi Mode]
Zeta Reticula - Binary Pair (Human Rebellion Remix) [Warehouse Manifesto]
sin:it:sin - Across The Desert Sands (Umwelt Remix) [LDI]
ELEKTROTECHNIK - Autopilot [Fanzine]
Druum & Melatron - F The Purists [Libertine]
Scan7 - The Resistance (UR Detroit Rusted Metal Mix) [SCAN]
J Cow - A complex range of human emojis [Potatoheadz]
Baobinga - Nukka [Plastic Raygun]
Gearshifter - Have A Nice Day [LaBrat Audiochemicals]
Rhyw - A2FAM14
Your Favorite Martian - Ultraviolet Images [Red Planet]
THE COLLECTION: PEEL ACRES - 22. HELENA HAUFF (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th September 2024
Tom Ravenscroft welcomes German DJ and record producer Helena Hauff to Peel Acres: the home of his dad, former BBC Radio DJ John Peel, and his legendary music collection. Helena chooses music from Alice Coltrane, Nico, The Misunderstood and Autechre and tells an amazing story about once supporting The Fall.
Presenter - Tom Ravenscroft
Producers - Paul Sheehan and Phil Smith
Additional Production - Becca Bryers
Helena Hauff - Catso [Werkdiscs / Ninja Tune]
Alice Coltrane & John Coltrane - The Sun
Duffo & Kush - I'm Your Football
Nico - My Only Child [Domino Recording Co]
The Misunderstood - I Unseen [Cherry Red]
Unknown - Hip-Hop Breakdance Instructional [Atlantic]
Sulfurex - Point Break [White Label]
The Fall - Fiery Jack [Cherry Red]
Unknown - I Must Confess
Drexciya - Hydro Theory [Warp]
Autechre - Weissensee [Warp]
Drinking Electricity - Breakout [Cherry Red]
Joy Division - Komakino [Factory]
HELENA HAUFF - 80s MIX 05.01.23 (320kbs-m4a/59mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 5th January 2023
The Hamburg-based techno DJ Helena Hauff has become one of the most sought after DJs on the world techno scene, she mixes her favourite 80s track as part of 6 Music goes Back to the 80s Escape season.
Cybotron - Alleys Of Your Mind [Fantasy]
Oppenheimer Analysis - The Devil's Dancers [Minimal Wave]
Depeche Mode - Stripped [Mute]
Malaria! - Kaltes Klares Wasser [moabit musik]
Matt Johnson & The The - Like A Sun Risin Thru My Garden [4AD]
Loop - Head On [Cooking Vinyl]
Nirvana - School [Sub Pop]
The Fall - Solicitor In Studio [Cherry Red]
HELENA HAUFF - LATE JUNCTION MIXTAPE 03.01.19 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
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)