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HTRK


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 HTRK's music feels like an indian gift of torture for a masochist, given then carelessly withdrawn.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.

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Previous Shows
25/11/09 Corsica Studios London

3/11/09 Cargo London

24/10/09 Exit07 Luxembourg

21/10/09 Grrrnd Zero Lyon

20/10/09 Spazio 211 Torino

19/10/09 Circolo degli Artisti Rome

17/10/09 Bad Bonn Dudingen

16/10/09 Botanique Brussels

13/10/09 Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin

12/10/09 Loppen Copenhagen

11/10/09 Voxhall Aarhus

10/10/09 Vera Groningen

6/10/09 White Heat London

8/05/09 Debaser Stockholm

6/05/09 Columbiahalle Berlin

15/01/09 Thurs 15 Jan: SCUM + HTRK + mo London

3/05/08 Amersham Arms London

26/04/08 Barfly Camden London

7/12/07 Faction London

6/12/07 The 78 Glasgow

5/12/07 Aunty Annies Belfast

4/12/07 Whelans Dublin

30/11/07 Rescue Rooms Nottingham

29/11/07 Thekla Bristol

28/11/07 Cabaret Electric Le Havre

27/11/07 La Maroquinerie Paris

25/11/07 De Kreun Kortrijk

24/11/07 Le Chabada Angers

23/11/07 Krakatoa Mérignac Arlac

22/11/07 La Cooperative de Mai Clermont-Ferrand

21/11/07 Grrnd Zero Lyon

19/11/07 La Romandie Lausanne

18/11/07 Transilvania Milan

17/11/07 Interzona Verona

16/11/07 Feedback Club Perugia

15/11/07 INIT Rome

14/11/07 Estragon Bologna

11/11/07 Ut Connewitz Leipzig

10/11/07 Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin

9/11/07 Pusterviksbaren Gothenburg

8/11/07 Debaser Stockholm Stockholm

7/11/07 John Dee Oslo

6/11/07 Debaser Stockholm Stockholm

5/11/07 Loppen Copenhagen

3/11/07 Barfly Brighton Brighton

5/10/07 333 London

29/09/07 Dame Colet House London

17/09/07 Camden Underworld London

16/06/07 The Roundhouse London

19/05/07 The Roundhouse London

22/04/07 Luminaire London

20/04/07 The George Tavern


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