HTRK + Loraine James – sold out

Berlin Atonal & silent green present
 

HTRK
HTRK [‘hate rock'], the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang, have an uncanny ability to elevate musical mood to a singular, smouldering supremacy. Their songs are often coded as fantasies, venturing deeper into the heady expanses of dub dream and memory. They make music that channels not just the heaviness and beauty of the world, but the surreal humour and inexplicable serendipity of it too, cataloguing desire, intimacy and spirit like few others. 

HTRK’s albums have been released by labels including Fire, Blast First Petite, Boomkat Editions and Ghostly International. For their most recent full-length, Rhinestones, they founded their own imprint, N&J Blueberries.

Loraine James
Loraine James grew up on Enfield’s Alma Estate in North London, surrounded by a vivid mix of cultures and her mum’s eclectic taste, from heavy metal to calypso. Teaching herself electronic production with a MIDI keyboard and laptop, she channelled those influences into a distinctive sound that drew the attention of Hyperdub, who released her breakthrough album For You & I in 2019. A run of records followed; Reflection, Gentle Confrontation, and ambient alias Whatever The Weather. 

Her latest album, Detached From The Rest Of You, marks a bold new chapter. Stripped to the bone, it draws inspiration from Aoki Takamasa, Ryoji Ikeda and the ‘clicks and cuts’ era of early 2000s electronic music: sparse keyboard chords, clicks and glitches, and deliberate space used as a compositional tool. Loraine half-jokingly calls it her “IDM popstar album”; her voice sits higher in the mix than ever before, inhabiting precise, direct song forms. 

Sunday, August 2
Kuppelhalle
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 7:45 pm
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