± DECEMBER 2023 PART I

Tāmaki-based DJ ngaru (@nqaru) embraces sonic exploration in his sets. Unconstrained by genre and fluid in form, he navigates a vast field of energies and seemingly polarising emotional states, focusing on the contours of musical feeling. Melding restless percussion, glittery ambience and haunting vocal cuts, ngaru invites the listener into the space in between. He aims to create something unique while remaining grounded in a sometimes odd familiarity.

Photographs by Ngaru
Design by Grace

RA MIX 018 - Ngaru - Whenua Mix

“Secret Thirteen Mix 080” is like an enigmatic and dramatic John William Waterhouse‘s romanticistic painting “Sleep and his Half-brother Death” where two figures lethargically reclined side by side in an artistic interior are touched with moonlight and its whole mystery. Foggy shadows and sleepy aura expressively shroud the intimate surroundings in a painting and the strange likeness and unlikeness of the recumbent figures are taking control of the unconscious. Waterhouse’s masterpiece is oddly mirroring HTRK’s ethereal selection in two perspectives: it holds a perplexing composure and a penetrating parallel worlds existence sense, also interprets a lucid dreaming that is Nigel’s nowadays exploratory object. Moreover same as the painting HTRK’s mix goes from diverse emotional substances starting with divinity, calmness, proximity and finishing with confusion, inner chaos and hidden depression. It should be highlighted that this mix starts with a midnight raga (one of the melodic modes used in Indian classical music which traditionally is only meant to be performed (and heard) at midnight) and follows its mood almost during the whole mix, so we suggest to play it at midnight to have a maximum effect of its magic. Nigel captured psychological dimensions in pieces as moderate and unforgettable as the sequences of enlightening dream. HTRK’s timeless selection is dedicated to all devoted guardians of metaphysics and spirituality.

Tracklist:
1. Pandit Pran Nath – 21 VIII 76 NYC Raga Malkauns [Just Dreams, 2002]
2. Omit – ReTainer (live) [Pseudo Arcana, 2012]
3. Jon Hassell – Blues Nile [Lovely Music, 1977]
4. Brian Eno – Lizard Point [Editions EG, 1982]
5. Werkbund – Rungholts Verklärung [Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien, 2010]
6. Rinus Van Alebeek / Luc Ferrari – Tape 1, Side A [Mathka, 2011]
7. Steve Roden – Airria (Hanging Garden) Second Version [Sirr, 2003]
8. Takami – Dark Woods [LLE, 1985]

HTRK - Secret Thirteen Mix 080

Ginger & Star Anise

Trackist: https://bit.ly/aecovmix
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"In this mix there’s music that was inspirational for the album, both sonically and spiritually. It also got some of the album itself, an old favorite or two, and some songs that have been taking up space in my playlists but I never quite seem to be in the right moment to play them out during my DJ sets lately. I recorded this one over the course of two afternoons at home on the mountain." @avalonemerson

Tracklist

The Cover Mix: Avalon Emerson

Why must I love you so much

A Musical Performance Of An Intimate Moment

The Rust

Real Life

West End Girls

jamcod

LATE NIGHT SOUNDS: CONFESSIONS OF A MASK
1. Sean Stewart - late night sounds, Berlin 
2. Terre Thaemlitz - Frames 002 
3. James Brown - King Heroin (excerpt) 
4. Sean Stewart - late night sounds, Berlin 
5. Chris Carter - TVX (excerpt) 
6. Badouin Oosterlynck - Suite for a Bondage Room (excerpt)
7. Sol Ixent - from La Vie Nouvelle 
8. Vangelis / Emmanuelle Seigner and Hugh Grant in Bitter Moon 
9. Martin Rev - Nyx (excerpt) 
10. Sean Stewart - late night sounds, Berlin 
11. Reiko Ike / Rita Moss - Daydream (from Plochingen mix for Entr'acte) 
12. James Brown - King Heroin 
13. Gatekeeper - from www.radicalfriend.com / scene from Phenomena / late night sounds 
14. Robert Görl - Mit Dir (extended) 
15. Slow Head - Night Glitters 
16. Rolf Julius - Wet Speakers (excerpt) 
17. Adeptus - Bury You in Kerman



NE069: HTRK's "Late Night Sounds - Confessions of a Mask" Mix

TENSE - AFTER DARK (5-26-12)

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In this episode Steph speaks to Jonnine Standish, a performer and musician best known for fronting Australian post-punk band HTRK, and her developing solo career under the mononym Jonnine. The Australian artist is is currently living in the idyllic Dandenong Ranges of greater Melbourne with her husband Conrad (of CS + Kreme), where Jonnine spent her time during lockdown producing her debut solo album 'Blue Hills'. Released via Boomkat in late July, the record moves even further from the dub-y post-industrial gloom of early HTRK into a lovely warmth and introspection that’s lightly sprinkled with the singer’s inimitable wit.

Artist Statement podcast – (Unlocked!) Episode 10: Post-Traumatic Everything with Jonnine Standish

Melbourne-based artist Maxine Gillon has made a name for herself with her accomplished songwriting that showcases both her literate & abstract lyricism as well as her hypnotic & lush production arrangements. Across both vivacious pop songs and ethereal ballads, her inimitable sound draws from indie pop, shoegaze, western twang & power pop elements.

Ginger & Star Anise

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