Qualm cover

Qualm

Released

Hamburg-based DJ and producer Helena Hauff’s track titles betray a mordant sense of humor: “Lifestyle Guru,” “The Smell Of Suds And Steel,” “Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg,” “It Was All Fields Around Here When I Was A Kid.” Her music deploys analog technology and retro sonic signifiers — both her chosen devices, and how she uses them — to create a mind-bending mix of electro and industrial, a more stoic and impassive version of Aphex Twin’s Analord singles. But the bangers on this 2018 LP are broken up by almost childlike melodies on beatless interstitial tracks like “Entropy Created You And Me.”

Phil Freeman

Recommended by

Suggestions
Heal cover

Heal

Lucas Dupuy, Pavel Milyakov
MT002 cover

MT002

Andrew Weatherall
Dance Music 4 Bad People cover

Dance Music 4 Bad People

Hieroglyphic Being
Psychick Rhythms, Vol. 1 cover

Psychick Rhythms, Vol. 1

Psychick Warriors ov Gaia
It's a Bomb cover

It's a Bomb

Tonn3rr3, Bikaye
Pessimist cover

Pessimist

Pessimist