Artist
White Hex
White Hex is a music group. Their discography on Gatefold includes 2 records.
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Albums tracked
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Since
Biography
White Hex are Jimi Kritzler and Tara Green who got together in their native Australia. The duo takes influence from the Aus graveyard blues tradition, turning it into something new and minimal, perfectly oscillating between drugstore cowboy lush guitars and Tara’s beautifully worn-out voice. The latest venture of Jimi, who's also member of Slug Guts, takes the post-punk of his main outfit’s 2011 album Howlin’ Gang a step further into something thy like to call “tropical goth”.
The Arc of White Hex
The pivots — what forced White Hex to reinvent.
The Cold Melbourne Wave
Kritzler stepped away from the raw noise of his earlier bands to build a minimal wave project alongside Green with simple drum boxes and icy synthesizers. The result was 2014's Heat and the Gold Nights material, stripping dark post-punk down to its bare skeletal frame. It captures a specific Melbourne DIY era where basement punk and warehouse electronic music shared the exact same scuzzy bills.
Influences
- Cocteau Twins — Kritzler repeatedly cited early 4AD acts and Robin Guthrie's heavily treated guitar textures as the foundation for his own washed-out, chorus-soaked playing. You can hear it all over the atmospheric layers hovering above the drum tracks. It gave their bare-bones synth setup a lush, eerie counterweight.
- New Order — The direct lineage traces right back to the machine rhythms and deadpan delivery of early Factory Records cuts. The reliance on programmed percussion driving tight, melodic guitar hooks is classic Movement-era songwriting. It is the rhythmic engine that keeps their tracks moving forward.
- Suicide — The foundational blueprint of combining a live instrument with a relentless, cheap drum machine comes straight from Martin Rev and Alan Vega. The repetitive, hypnotic pulse running beneath Green's detached vocals is pure downtown New York synth-punk. They took that claustrophobic aesthetic and applied it to Melbourne lo-fi.
- The Cure — The bleak, flanged guitar chords and sparse arrangements mirror the early 1980s Seventeen Seconds period. You hear that cold restraint in the way the guitars frame the vocals instead of taking over the mix. It keeps the tracks sparse, gloomy, and direct.
- Total Control — Melbourne scene roots tied White Hex directly to the lineage of local punks pivoting to cold, synth-driven electronics. The blend of DIY hardcore grit with drum-box post-punk was pioneered in real-time across the same Australian underground circuit. You hear that punk bite driving every synth pulse.
Discography
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