Switching within digital binaries, analogue flux, and all forms of degradation in between, a creature is kickstarted to life, as if awoken with locomotion's full might. Helena Hauff delivers a mix for Tresor's Kern series, lashing together a sound world with a potent barrage of industrial dance music.

Scorched-earth missives attract metals and mining chemicals, leaving little in its wake but aggravated and chaotic experiments of lateral hypotheses in acid brine. Like a hyperloop through this labyrinth, this high-velocity future is both beautiful and evil, glinting embers through low-bit fogged-out clusters. 100 metre-high aluminium pylons vibrate, each captivated by their electrified foundations. There is no place for dust to settle on the floor. Where a loose TB-tribalism knocks switches and pounds upward synaptic shocks, life down there is too rapid. Not to be taken lying down, this is the viable path forward without the shackles of turgid passivity. The effect is no less thrilling than crucial, as it presents an essential DJ of our times.

Settling into swift 150bpm groove, Hauff ploughs through shepherd-tone electro, ghetto bumps, and grizzled techno. A new collaborative track with Morah plays a rough game of meter, with Hauff's signature sound clear as ever ripping apart new dimensions with a brutal disorder over deceptive bass synths. The visceral crunch of the present is no more clear than at the halfway point, a threshold in which the breakneck electro falls apart, with the rabid foam of Nasenbluten's ballsy gabber anthem Intellectual Killer. Slowly more room to breathe comes into view, the pace drawn down revealing a strange sense of resolution, with expansive synths hinting at a beckoning euphoria. At this moment, Helena Hauff is clearly in full stride, uniquely melding fragile machinations against anarchic human interventions.

Kern Vol.5 releases June 19th 2020, on 2CD, as well as a 3×12″ vinyl edition highlighting the rare and exclusive cuts found in the mix, packed in a full color gatefold sleeve, featuring exclusive photography.

The release of Kern Vol.5 mixed by Helena Hauff, will be celebrated on July 24th at Tresor in Berlin, featuring DJ sets by Helena Hauff, DJ Godfather, Morah, Privacy and live shows from Volruptus and L.F.T., as well as special secret guests.

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Kern Vol.5 mixed by Helena Hauff
(2CD / digital)

1. Esoterik – Mayhem
2. Mononom – Shrinking
3. Jaquarius – Metamine
4. Slaves Of Sinus – Chaos (And Me)
5. Galaxian – Private Tyranny <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
6. Blackmass Plastics – Holy Handgrenade
7. Volruptus – We Are The Cyborgs
8. Animistic Beliefs – An Eye For A.I.
9. Paul Blackford – Dance Yourself To Death
10. DJ Godfather & DJ Starski – City Of Boom
11. Dirty Hospital – The General
12. Galaxian – Glasgow To Detroit
13. SolarX – Bionic Man
14. The Advent – Work Dat
15. O-Wells – Park Jit
16. Privacy – Go
17. Morah & Hauff – Segment 3 <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
18. Somatic Responses – Open Window
19. Nasenbluten – Intellectual Killer
20. Subtopia – The Mob Rules (Umwelt Remix)
21. L.F.T. – Data Move <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
22. Q.D.T ‎ – Untitled
23. Machino – Ministerio <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
24. SC-164 – Telegraph
25. Shedbug – Sibelle
26. L.F.T. – Nucleon
27. Exzakt – Madrid Nights
28. Umwelt – Starless Night <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
29. Shinra – Pinwheel
30. Maarten van der Vleuten – Internaut
31. Andrea Parker + David Morley – After Dark

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Kern Vol.5 mixed by Helena Hauff
Exclusive & Rare
(3x12")

A. Esoterik – Mayhem
B1. Galaxian – Private Tyranny <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
B2. Morah & Hauff – Segment 3 <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
B3. DJ Godfather & DJ Starski – City Of Boom
C1. Q.D.T. ‎– Untitled
C2. Machino – Ministerio <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
D1. Umwelt – Starless Night <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
D2. Shinra – Pinwheel
E1. Nasenbluten – Intellectual Killer
E2. L.F.T. – Data Move <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
F1. Dirty Hospital - The General
F2. Andrea Parker & David Morley – After Dark

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Kern Vol.5 mixed by Helena Hauff

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L.F.T. - Data Move (taken from "Kern Vol.5 mixed by Helena Hauff" - out June 19th)

At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future. 

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit. 

Tresor Records was founded in the same year and began to serve as a platform for exporting the new sounds associated with Tresor all around the world. Emergent musicians from Michigan, such as Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance and Drexciya, were pivotal in shaping these early years. Their visits to Berlin would kick-start dialogue between the youth movement in Europe and these musicians. This story is one of friendship and community-building, inextricably linked with cities like Detroit, Birmingham or Edinburgh, where like-minded friends built something truly special, where revelatory rhythms soundtrack decaying industry in corrupted metropoles. 

Tresor Records has been the fertile soil for dozens upon dozens of creative minds, from the very luminaries of the scene who developed electronic music over the last three decades through to contemporary protagonists who are currently defining the sound of the future -  A more than 300 strong catalogue displays an unmistakable identity - the Tresor spirit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

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