HTRK

write up - http://thethousands.com.au/sydney/hear/a-mixtape-by-htrk

tracklist -

1. St.GIGA Sound of the Earth - Landscape of Koyasan-Hirotani
2. K-S.H.E. - Head (In My Private Lounge, My Pad)
3. Newworldaquarium - Shine Eyed
5. Brian Eno & Laraaji - Meditation no.1
6. No UFO's - Symbolic Demarcation at 450ms
7. The KLF - 3 A.M. Somewhere Out of Beaumont

Ambient Mix 01

Order the Poison (Mika Vainio Remix) 10" in The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/htrk-poison-mika-vainio-remix

HTRK - Poison (Mika Vainio Remix)

Download "Blue Sunshine": http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/htrk-blue-sunshine
Pre-order "Psychic 9-5 Club": http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/htrk-psychic-9-5-club

HTRK - Blue Sunshine

HTRK "Psychic 9-5 Club" out April 1, 2014.

Pre-order "Psychic 9-5 Club" in The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/htrk-psychic-9-5-club

HTRK - Chinatown Style

HTRK - Love Is Distraction

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 - Eat Yr Heart

"Sweetheart" is taken from the 'Eat Yr Heart/Sweetheart' single. The 12" version is a hand-numbered, limited edition of 350.

Purchase: http://theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/htrk-eat-yr-heart-sweetheart
Release Bio: http://ghostly.com/releases/eat-yr-heart-sweetheart
Artist Bio: http://ghostly.com/artists/HTRK



HTRK - Sweetheart (A. K. A. Love You) [Suicide Cover]

Taken from the new Ben Frost EP - 
'V A R I A N T' - out on vinyl and download on 8 December 2014 through Mute / Bedroom Community  (U.S release dates - Download 9 December / Vinyl 13 January)

The limited edition EP features remixes of tracks taken from the latest album A U R O R A by British producer Evian Christ (following his critically acclaimed Waterfall EP and work with Kanye West); Downward label boss and techno producer Regis (previous remix credits inc. VCMG, Terence Fixmer), Good by Air affiliated experimental artist Dutch E Germ (previous remix credits inc. Fatima Al Qadiri and Mas Ysa); Australian duo HTRK and raster-noton recording artist Kangding Ray.

V A R I A N T :: EP TRACKLISTING
Venter - Evian Christ TF 12” Mix
Venter - Dutch E Germ Remix
Venter - HTRK Remix
No Sorrowing - Kangding Ray Remix
Nolan - Regis Self Medicating Edit


Pre-Order V A R I A N T here: 
Rough Trade - http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/88102
Boomkat - http://boomkat.com/vinyl/1126481-ben-frost-v-a-r-i-a-n-t
Bleep - https://bleep.com/release/55179-ben-frost-v-a-r-i-a-n-t

Get A U R O R A here: 
iTunes - smarturl.it/auroraiTunes
CD - smarturl.it/auroraCD
Standard Vinyl - smarturl.it/auroraLP
Coloured Limited Edition Vinyl Boomkat - boomkat.com/vinyl/969946
Rough Trade - www.roughtrade.com/albums/81850

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Ben Frost :: 'Venter' (HTRK Remix)

HTRK – Body Lotion

Body Lotion is a collaboration between Belgium's Sleeperhold Publications, Australian duo HTRK and London-based artist David Ferrando Giraut. The three tracks on the record—"Sugar," "Punch" and the title track, "Body Lotion"—date back to the sessions that led to the band's 2011 album, Work (Work Work). For any HTRK fan, the opportunity to hear three unheard Work (Work Work)-era tracks is reason for both celebration and reflection. Two of the songs feature the unmistakable basslines of Sean Stewart, who died in 2010, before Work (Work Work) was released. 

Both "Sugar" and "Punch" were recorded live in HTRK's London rehearsal room, the then trio of Jonnine Standish, Nigel Lee-Yang and Sean Stewart. On "Sugar," Jonnine's voice smolders through smeared drums and Sean's bassline. "Punch" is spare and confessionary; "Body Lotion" is suggestive, winking and bruised, a trademark HTRK hook submerged beneath the murk. All three tracks mutated from the recording sessions that ultimately led to Work (Work Work) track "Slo Glo." While they all stand as striking individual songs, they share subtle elements in common—a lyrical idea here, some guitar parts there. 

David Ferrando Giraut's distinctive artwork adorns Body Lotion's sleeve and one side of the wax. (All three tracks feature on the record's A-side.) The Spanish artist has a deep and intimate connection to HTRK—he was living with Nigel in London at a time when Sean would visit to sketch out songs in Nigel's tiny room. They've collaborated before, too: Jonnine has narrated and appeared in some of his films, while Nigel has provided the music. Giraut's previous installations have often carried a musical lean—he's used LP covers and turntables in the past—and he's found a rich stream of creative inspiration in music's ability to create meaning and change in memory and behaviour.

This year has seen HTRK return with Psychic 9-5 Club, a bold and triumphant album, one that marked the beginning of a new era for Nigel and Jonnine. Body Lotion presents a beautiful, bittersweet glimpse into the recent past. 

About Sleeperhold Publications:

Sleeperhold is a Belgian-based publication platform. It's aim: to produce ten outputs, spanning different realms of the arts, and then cease to exist. Its current project is a run of ten vinyl records—HTRK's 12-inch follow previous efforts from Tropic Of Cancer, Moon Duo and Disappears. Before the vinyl series, Sleeperhold put out a photobook, a poster set, a deck of cards and short stories. They say: "There is no recurring theme, there is no recurring format, there is no recurring audience."

SHP #5.4: HTRK - Body Lotion

A mixtape created for the Shifting Worlds launch party by Jonine of HTRK. 

HTRK - Shifting Worlds mixtape

DUB YR HEART - HTRK BOOTLEG

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

HTRK - The Body You Deserve (Psychic Lilac instrumental rework)

An insidiously hypnotic mix, optimised for chill-out rooms, intense study sessions, clinical drug trials and office ambience. Synapses gently massaged by ambient pieces from Robert Babicz and Ryoji Ikeda, outsider house classics from DJ Sprinkles and Hieroglyphic Being, free-form group-think from NYC's Excepter, tough beats from Finland's Ø (empty space) and a 20 minute immersion from the far reaches of New Zealand's Omit. HTRK play tonight at Unsound in Manggha at 19:30.

1. Edward Artemyev / Part IV / Solaris OST / Toei Music
2. Robert Babicz / Eternie / Desert / Mille Plateaux
3. Ryoji Ikeda / Zone 4 / Document 02 / Dorobo
4. Omit / Sequester / Tracer / Helen Scarsdale Agency
5. DJ Sprinkles / Grand Central - Part 1 (Deep into the Bowel of House) / Midtown 120 Blues / Mule Musiq
6. Hieroglyphic Being / Spheres of Madness / A Romance of 2 Planets / Alter
7. Excepter / Og / Presidence / Paw Tracks
8. Ø / Teehetki / Tulkinta / Sähkö
9. Francis Monkman / Spiral Motion / Forcefield / Bruton Music



Unsound Podcast 13: HTRK

0:00
Les Rallizes Denudes / Now is Forever / Etcetera Magazine 7" (via YouTube) / No Label
6:42
Harry Pussy / Black Florida / Black Florida Split 7" / Klang Industries
9:29
Melt Banana / We Will Rock You / Dynamite with a Laserbeam / Three-One-G
11:28
Esplendor Geometrico / Baraca / Sheikh Aljama / Daft Records
15:59
Tolerance / Bokw Wa Zurui Robot (stolen from Kad) / Divin / Vanity Records
20:47
Suicide / Love You / Half Alive / Roir
23:33
Tropic of Cancer / Dive (Wheel of the Law) / The Sorrow of Two Blooms EP / Blackest Ever Black
28:04
Lost Animal / Lose the Baby (unmastered) / Ex-Tropical / Sensory Projects
33:41
New War / Ghostwalking (HTRK remix) / Ghostwalking 12" / Fast Weapons



Mix for the Quietus - rock out with yr cock out

Minimalist Melbourne duo HTRK created a soundtrack to take Pageant's girl gang down the runway and into a subterranean rave for MBFW.
Featuring: 
Loke Rahbek / Croatian Amor (Denmark)
Sky Walkers - From the Posh Isolation album 'Finding People' 2017
Dale Cornish (UK) 
Aqal Pattern 1 - From the Entr'acte album 'Aqal' 2017
​Cut - From the Halcyon Veil EP 'Cut Sleeve' 2016
HTRK (Aus) 
Summer Rain - unreleased 2017
​untitled - unreleased 2017​

htrk x pageant runway soundtrack

Unofficial Dalhous remix of HTRK's Love Is Distraction. The original track is taken from their 2014 LP Psychic 9-5 Club on Ghostly International.

Stream the full album here: https://soundcloud.com/ghostly/sets/htrk-psychic-9-5-club

Order it here: https://ghostly.com/products/htrk-psychic-9-5-club

HTRK - Love Is Distraction (Unofficial Dalhous remix)

Short sample of the awesome mix CD produced by Nigel Lee-Yang of HTRK for L_A_N Issue 2. Available from http://shop.lanzine.com

L_A_N 2 mix by Nigel Lee-Yang of HTRK (Sample)

HTRK is an Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang. @htrk
Artwork: Renee Jaeger

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Tracklist:
Kinlaw - Rake (loop)
LST - thurspite
Kinlaw - Rake
Zebrablood - Whatcomesup96
DJ Trystero -  賛辞
Abu Ama - Sleep Well in Jakarta
Levl - Arcola_#1
Cryptobitch - Double-Flux Honeytrap
Joy Orbison - Y She’s Away (feat. Mansur Brown)
Buttechno - 808 mod cutz
Bookworms - Graffiti Pits
DJ Rashad - I’m Too Hi (feat. Earl)

ÂUGHT mix - HTRK [Nigel]

Original version of "Nono/Yoyo" Taken from their debut album 'Deleted Scenes'.

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