Electronic icon Helena Hauff returns with first new track of 2022 with ‘Touching Plastic’

When it comes to hard-hitting electronic music, there are few more iconic names than Helena Hauff. The Hamburg-born producer and DJ has been less-than-quietly revolutionising the sound of techno and electro since her emergence on the scene at the turn of the 2010s. Her forward thinking style of production and mixing that relies on both genres’ more analog sounds has helped to inform a wildly popular subset of selectors that prefer their sonics hard-edged, hypnotic, and wildly exhilarating. While touring relentlessly over the last 12 months, 2022 has not seen a release from Hauff until today, with the announcement of this 12", Living With Ladybirds; her first EP of 2022 to be released on 11th November via fabric Originals.

Have you checked out the 1st two releases on fabric Originals ?

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Helena Hauff - Touching Plastic [fabric Originals]

We are pleased to build a new bridge between Comodoro Rivadavia (ARG) and Madrid Sur (ESP).

Furatena are proud to reveal the outcome of a new collaboration between two of electro music's most remarkable spanish-speaking artists. Robert Cosmic and Saigg's "Superficial Information" is a unique and exciting hybrid of Electro and Techno sounds.

Opening track "Matdrid" enters a tunnel of lowpitched vocals, moving in a potent exercise of deftly manipulated acid lines. "Adglock" draws pulsating and noisy basslines across expansive, droning synth shots and 140bpm techno rhythms. "Ecaptcha" plunges deep into an electro sound splintered by binary bits and submerged vocal triggers that beckon a scheming melody.

On "Unglock" Roberto and Andrés lead with a thick bass, heavily shapeshifting tones and vocal hits with effects processing. The EP closes with "Translate", a hard-hitting electro track, steaming sonics and arpeggiated acidic bleeps, with a techno bassline diving in subterranean motions.

"Superficial Information" marks the full debut for both artists on Furatena.

Programmed by @robert_cosmic & @saigg | Madrid Sur + Comodoro Rivadavia [2024]
Mastered by @sephmusic | Buenos Aires
Artwork & Visual Concept by Discótica | Bogotá
Distributed by EPM Music | London

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Superficial Information EP

Robert Cosmic & Saigg — Ecaptcha — [FTA_EP05]

Lost | Found EP

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With Multiply Your Absurdities, Helena Hauff delivers her long-awaited 12-inch debut on Tresor: a multi-colored inauguration, masterfully crafted by the inimitable Hamburg producer and DJ.

The title track Multiplying My Absurdities opens the record, with a slow burn of magnetic synths and numbing acid drops. Through its simple yet thrilling dynamics, it occasionally falls into playful skepticism, creating something truly unique, uncompromised, and beautiful.

Punks in the Gym is named after an infamous climbing route in Australia. As its namesake, the track mercilessly rises to a techno summit.
It gets steeper and steeper with every bar, resembling a volcanic dance where 303 earthquakes shake the ground before eruptions. 
Once you're halfway in, there's no turning back; all you can do is keep moving forward. 

The closing track, Humanoid Fruit, transports to an even darker prehistoric landscape. Synths bursts remind of fossilized Pterodactyls revived—a challenging but rewarding trip through acidic rain and the alleys of your mind. 

Originally released as the soundtrack for Teslaism by artist and filmmaker Bahar Noorizadeh, a 3rd person musical racing game featuring Elon Musk and his self-driving car/lover and life coach, as they drive towards a shareholder meeting in a post-gamified Berlin landscape. It premiered at the "Tresor 31: Techno, Berlin und die große Freiheit" exhibition in 2022 and deals with stimulating skepticism about the emergence of a new era after Post-fordism that she calls Teslaism: "an upgrade to the system of production and consumption predicated on advanced storytelling, financial worldbuilding, and imagineering 'the look of the future.'" What has been once inspired by Helena Hauff's dystopian sound has now been made into an official music video for the track.

Much like the video, Multiply Your Absurdities represents a journey into futuristic uncertainty.

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Helena Hauff - Multiplying My Absurdities

The Motion (Club Edit) / Help (DJ Version)

Help (DJ Version)

Pre-order to download A1 Firebird straight away: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/firebird

More tracks from the EP:
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soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/zeta-reticula-distress-signal-mtron043
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soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/zeta-reticula-investigate-the-signal-mtron043

Zeta Reticula and Helga Neuer return for their second and final collaborative EP on Mechatronica, with an outstanding collection of interplanetary electro rollers for the mind, body and floor. In loving memory of, and dedicated to, Helga Neuer aka. Damjan Bizilj.

Releases June 13, 2025.

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Helga Neuer & Zeta Reticula - Firebird [MTRON043]

Wolf Gang

Berlin Rhodes House III - Backwards Needle Mix

Archives Two

Planetary Assault Systems - The Return

a 2018 classic fallen through the cracks

https://mutualdreaming.bandcamp.com/track/joey

Joey

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Booom! The third one in a very special series of shape picture discs on SOM. After the collaboration with Gerald Donald and Egyptian Lover on the last 2 volumes this time The Exaltics invites the one and only Helena Hauff. A1 starts with a short eerie intro and after that they come straight to the point with an UFO electro techno stomper with vocals from Helena. The flip side is floating around with alot of echoes and delays melodies and 303s, Helenas beautiful voice and this special old school feeling. Again the artwork is done by the amazing Godspill aka Mehdi Rouchiche. Every record comes with a download code. The outer contour of the picture is also the contour of the record and makes this release once again to a high collectable item..

Futuros EP

The Exaltics meets Helena Hauff - Futuros EP

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