Helena Hauff ‘Discreet Desires’ (Werkdiscs/Ninja Tune)
Mysterious landmark debut from Hamburg machine seditionist and sonic seductress
Hardkiss ‘Delusions Of Grandeur’ (PledgeMusic)
20th anniversary reissue for the landmark double album that crystallised mid-90s Stateside electronic dance music
Top Trackage
Our new monthly round-up of top trackage – courtesy of the man who invented the phrase “trance trousers”
Hardkiss At The 1995 Billboard Dance Music Summit
When the distinguished American music trade mag hosted its Dance Music Summit in San Francisco in January 1995, little did they know that the stars of the show would be Hardkiss, an underground outfit who would inadvertently help lay the foundations of today’s EDM craze
Suicide: A Punk Mass
Alan Vega and Martin Rev talk through the earliest days of Suicide and offer hints of what we can expect from the pioneering synthpunk duo’s “Punk Mass” show at the Barbican in London