R4 by BLACK SITES (HELENA HAUFF & F#X)
| SKU | 139880 |
| Artist | BLACK SITES (HELENA HAUFF & F#X) |
| Title | R4 |
| Label | TRESOR |
| Catalog # | TRESO R379 |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 01 - 2024 |
| Format | Vinyl - EU2LP |
| EAN Barcode | 4251804185479 |
| € 31,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- motherjam
Description
Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014.
Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn’t invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album’s breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).
Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro’s danceability, acid house’s corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.
