Helena Hauff is a DJ and producer from Hamburg, Germany, where she runs a club night called Birds and Other Instruments at the Golden Pudel Club. Helena's sound as a DJ can't be nailed down as she cuts between genres with ease: dirty acid, Chicago, electro and wave mixed in an obsessive way, this inherent nature comes across in the intensity of her music.
Actio Reactio is a mesmerisingly raw record, capturing the essence of Helena's conceptions, and she works in an analogue world where most of the tracks are recorded in a single take. She says of her upcoming Ninja Tune / Werkdiscs release "I could explain the name of the record and the tracks, but I don't really wanna. I wanna leave that to the people, I want them to make up their own ideas about it… ".
To complement this release Helena unveils her 'Reaktion'mix, a showcase of the music she loves and inspires her - head here to listen and download the mix!
Machinedrum is due to drop his new album, and debut release for Ninja Tune, Vapor City on 23 September, and Pitchfork have just premiered "Eyesdontlie", the title track from the full-length's first single out on 29 July - head here to listen!
The album, which is spawned from life-long recurring dreams of a metropolis known as 'Vapor City', sees Stewart go back to the drawing board armed with inspirations sprouting deeper from within his psyche and Eyesdontlie represents the first district of this sprawling imaginary universe.
'Vapor City' Tracklist -
01. Gunshotta
02. Infinite Us
03. Dont 1 2 Lose U
04. Center Your Love
05. Vizion
06. Rise N Fall
07. SeeSea
08. U Still Lie
09. Eyesdontlie
10. Baby Its U
We are also pleased to unveil that Machinedrum fills our special guest spot at Sala BeCool this Sunday 16 June in Barcelona, alongside Illum Sphere and Letherette from the Ninja clan, Martyn and Lapalux representing Brainfeeder and Big Dada's newest signee, Cell Broco, who will be making his first appearance for the label.
This week on Solid Steel there’s a definite African feel to the set list. Strictly Kev kicks things off with a mix of music he calls ‘Afreaka’. Percussion heavy funk with a tribal feel, from Madlib sample grabs to Malcolm McLaren or Eno & Byrne’s imagined ethnic soundscapes. For part two we welcome Melt Yourself Down into the guest slot for a whole world fusion of flavours from Ali Hassan Kuban to the Mad Decent stable.
The band release their debut album on June 17th via the Leaf Label after a trio of killer singles that fuse post-punk Pigbag skronk funk with acid electronics. Catch them on tour across the UK right now with a must see live show that recently ripped Jools Holland’s ‘Later’ show a new one.
Over the past 25 years on Solid Steel, if there's one continent that has been well represented since day one, it's Africa. Coldcut have always dug deep into it's rich musical heritage and Jon More displays another fine selection of Afro beat and African inspired music. It's Bala Miller from Nigeria, Alemayehu Eshete from Ethiopia and Julien Babinga from Congo, plus music from Ocote Soul Sounds, Shina Williams and Troubleman.
We are excited to offer Cold Krush Cuts, the 1997 released double-disc CD mixed by DJ Krush, DJ Food and Ninja Tune founders Coldcut, as a 3LP package via vinyl crowd-funding platform Beat Delete
Originally packaged in two 60 minute mixes across two CDs, 'DJ Krush: Back In The Base' and 'Coldcut & DJ Food Fight', Cold Krush Cuts is now planned over six sides of vinyl, a true slice of Ninja Tune history.
