// Listen - HTRK, 'Needle Exchange 069: Late Night Sounds - Confessions of a Mask' //
Seldom does anything musical excite us from Disco town Melbourne, but HTRK might just be that film noir type game changer.
Perhaps their decision to leave the sunny coast for grey days in London and rehearsing in the room next to Einsturzende Neubauten during their early days might have helped meander their growing sound.
HTRK's cavernous reverb of dub techno mixed with frothed post-punk motifs and gravelly imperfections of Industrial, re-imagined in the setting of a dingy basement has tempted our ears for a little more.
So for that quiet Moody Monday, tune in to this recording for Self-Titled Magazine.
Featuring the voice of dearly departed band member, Sean Stewart and a range of wonderful movie excerpts.
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