Htrk

sincerely yours 2005 - june 2013

a study in  /  a beginners guide to  / a fanboy listening for
gothenburg's finest record label.

this mix includes at least one track from every release starting with the first the tough alliance single in 2005 to the latest jj single, dropped in june 2013. all in chronological order. welcome to a vacation in the world of sincerely yours.

1. now that's what i call indulgence - tta - now that's what i call indulgence (2005)
2. silly crimes - tta - new waves (2006)
3. leg 7 - tta - escaping your ambitions (2006)
4. never content - air france - on trade winds (2006)
5. fall from a height - the honeydrips - lack of love will tear us apart (2007)
6. sailing is not a crime - n. divers & a. singer - escaping our limitations (2007)
7. afraid you told someone about us - air france - aurevoairfrance (2007)
8. hung up on a dream - tta - first class riot (2007)
9. a new chance - tta - a new chance (2007)
10. 1981 - tta - a new chance - (2007)
11. i wouldn't know what to do - the honeydrips - i wouldn't know what to (2007) 
12. taken too young - tta -  taken too young (2007)
13. new city love - jonas game - new city love (2007)
14. lucky - tta - neo violence 7" (2008)
15. a young summer's youth - joel lame - a master of cermonies (2008)
16. skimret - nordpolen - skimret (2008)
17. no excuses - air france - no way down (2008)
18. under - nordpolen - på nordpolen (2008)
19. my swag, my life - jj - no° 1 (2009)
20. my life my swag - jj - no° 1 (2009)
21. känslor - avner - lyssna (2009)
22. asleep at the party - memory cassette - call & response (2009)
23. gbg belongs to us - air france feat. roos - gbg belongs to us (2009)
24. things will never be the same again - no° 2 (2009)
25. bicycle - memory tapes - seek magic (2009)
26. round one (salem remix) - gucci mane - round one (2009)
27. bed for mig (kjj edit) - avner - (2009)
28. pure shores - jj - n° 2.1 (2009)
29. my way - jj - let go / my way (2010)
30. ceo birthday - jj - ceo birthday (2010)
31. let go - jj - n° 3 (2010) 
32. blue moon - kendal johansson - blue moon (2010)
33. everything is gonna be alright - ceo - come with me (2010)
34. höstvisa - the honeydrips - höstvisa (2010)
35. all around - ceo - white magic (2010)
36. let them - jj - let them (2010)
37. slwhl - sail awhale - a documentation (2010)
38. halo - ceo - illuminata (2010)
39. kill you - jj - kills (2010)
40. the end - jj feat yves saint lorentz - the end (2011)
41. första hjälpen - team rockit - första hjälpen (2011)
42. no one can touch us tonight - jj - no one can touch us tonight (2011)
43. celebris - spêcial club - celebris (2011)
44. triumf - team rockit - 1988 (2011)
45. it feels good to be around you - air france - it feels good to be around you (2011)
46. ave maria - ceo - ave maria (2011)
47. vit magi - dream team rockit - white magic epologue (2011)
48. vi - spêcial club - vi (2011)
49. beautiful life - jj - n° 4 (2012)
50. när mitt blod pumpar i dej - nordpolen - när mitt blod pumpar i dej (2012)
51. 10 - jj - high summer (2012)
52. dom mörka molnen feat. ceo - nordpolen - vi är många som är vakna i natt (2013)
53. aura - team rockit - aura (2013)
54. fågelsången - jj - fågelsången (2013)


i had to keep this mix under two hours (because of soundcloud's free user rules), that's why i can't guarantee that all of your favorite tracks are included.

sincerely yours 2005 - june 2013

ha, htrk

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HTRK - Fascinator

HTRK [HATE-ROCK-TRIO]

HTRK became in 2003. Early music spawned from basement sessions: omnipresent electronic drum sequences, ostinati basslines and twisted guitar loops based on repeated rhythms that make you move. Nigel Yang and Siam Scream found a beautiful muse in Jonnine D, who joined the band shortly after its inception. New alias the Hate Rock Trio: drone moored by Jonnine's listlessly simple vocal melodies.

Songs played at shows in Melbourne and Sydney were finally recorded in December 2004. A single live take captured on borrowed equipment in HTRK's cave, NOSTALGIA in its original form is the closest document of the band's uncompromising live shows (and a reverb-drenched middle-finger to 'production values'). Its abrasive sound manages to produce submission, carried by a hypnotic stability that always threatens collapse.

Scream's bass riffs are pure, slow rock and roll, Yang's guitar is insidious, the 808 is perpetual and often piercing. HTRK could provide the soundtrack to a Reifenstahl movie, a modern day marching band for immaterial cyber armies. Jonnine leads, striking floor tom with commands:
"Ha!"
"Dance!"
"Everybody let's go!"


At other times, NOSTALGIA's control effects irresistible groove, dance hits and dream-pop laments. When the songs end, un-foreshadowed, feeble silence marred by feedback leftovers and the dead static of the drum machine leaves the spectator in a rude state of torpor. HTRK's music feels like an indian gift of torture for a masochist, given then carelessly withdrawn. And it's an airy type of mercilessness, the worst kind.

ha, htrk

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