live recorded at les ateliers claus 11.03.2022

Piotr Kurek - live ateliers claus

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Flavien & Friends @ Kiosk Radio 22.05.2023

Purchase: http://theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/htrk-work-work-work 
Release Info: http://ghostly.com/releases/work-work-work

HTRK’s Ghostly International debut Work (work, work) is a flat-lined study of desire and submission, sentimentality and dysphoria. The London by way of Berlin and Melbourne art-rock duo (pronounced “Hate Rock”) finished the album’s production while grieving the sudden loss of founding member and bassist Sean Stewart to suicide in March ‘10. And while that tragedy has certainly found its way into the music’s bottomless sonic void, Work (work, work), written from 2006-10 in Berlin and London, is about much more than abject darkness. Much, much more.

On Work (work, work), HTRK craft a stark soundscape: achingly slow 808 beats, eerie synth arpeggios, vaporous guitar noise, and Jonnine Standish’s androgynous, detached vocals, dripping with reverb. And yet it’s the careful way the pair combine those elements—organizing and juxtaposing them with a minimalist’s attention to detail—that makes their music so emotionally devastating. “Ice Eyes Eis” starts things off by enveloping you in a slippery erotic zone, in which a German sex TV babe splays herself over a molasses-slow beat and clouds of dry-ice atmosphere. The creeping “Eat Yr Heart” embodies HTRK’s touch with sonic unease, showcasing a high-pitched horror-movie synth obligato that flits like a swarm of bats around Standish’s declarations of longing (“glucose, cellulose, saccharine”/ “you fill me up then make me starve, eat yr heart”). Late-album highlight “Love Triangle” takes a more sensuous tone, describing a perfect three-person encounter (“he on she on me / she on me on he / bermuda bermuda bermuda”) over textured guitar swirls and a languorous drum-machine march.

For all of Work (work, work)’s more abrasive elements, its sense of bleakness and mourning, one finds a surprisingly romantic core. A sense of doomed melancholy, a heavy heart, lives below the layers of a murky and heavy space. HTRK’s remaining members, Jonnine Standish and guitarist Nigel Yang, sweeten their heavier sonic reference points (Pan Sonic, Suicide, et al) into songs of love and lust, creating an imaginary party record for the end of time. And what of all that “work”? In the end, HTRK’s album title seems both to refer to the tireless craft that went into its creation, as well as Standish and Yang’s endless quest to extract beauty from melancholy.

HTRK - Synthetik

LT_ATW + landscape/roar

babe I’ll run to you if you ask me to 
girl I’ll die for you if you ask me to 
and this pain, this pain never stops 
not when you’re away

beautiful like the morning dew
tangible like a fruit
you don’t believe a word I say 
but that’s alright with me 

cause you are so gorgeous I could cry 
and I haven’t cried in a while



if you find me I will be there

SS1 is the debut of LA based artist, Social Service. The sturdy, yet dreamlike 5 track excursion, is a pensive debut that navigates many of the intricate fibers that form the foundation of dance oriented music. From the warm and gently dubbed out melodies of Chamber to the lively, dance-floor-ready constructions of Stolen, SS1 stands as a quality entry point for Social Service-- a narrative that’s equally diverse as it is cohesive.

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/social-service
Release Date: May 30th 2016
Formats: 12" / Digital
Distributed by: Lobster Distribuion
Mastered by: Dietrich Schoenemann

Direct: https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/social-service-ss1
Clone: https://clone.nl/item39268.html
Juno: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/social-service-ss1/604791-01/
Decks : http://www.decks.de/t/social_service-ss1/c6v-jh
Pacific Beach: https://www.pbvinyl.com/products/social-service-ss1
Redeye: http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/72124-mw002-social-service-ss1
Deejay : http://www.deejay.de/MW002_-_Social_Service_-_Ss1_-_12inch__220231