When self-titled first asked HTRK to lend one of their carefully curated mixes to our Needle Exchange series, we expected shades of the black-lit sound that the Australian duo first sculpted with bassist Sean Stewart in 2003. Guitarist/programmer Nigel Yang and frontwoman Jonnine Standish went several steps further, however, splicing bits of James Brown, Chris Carter and more with some of the skeletal bedroom recordings Stewart made before taking his own life in March of last year. Here’s a brief explanation from the trio’s surviving members:
Have a listen below, and be sure to look out for a track-by-track breakdown of HTRK’s new album, Work (work, work), in our next issue, which drops in the coming month…
Tracklisting:
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
