Clot Magazine

The next mixtape comes from Heqc (an alias of Ben Lukas Boysen), an electronic music composer, producer and sound designer based in Berlin, with a selection of tracks that give a insight into some of his compositional interests. Boysen has classic training, being the son of opera singer Deirdre Boysen with the works of Bruckner, Wagner and Bach laid an important foundation in shaping his practice. With his moniker Hecq, he’s released several albums since 2003, exploring a wide range of styles from ambient to breakcore and releasing mostly on Hymen records. Under his own name, the artist has also released a series of productions on labels such as erased tapes and ad noiseam.  His latest release as Hecq this year after a break since 2017, Form, co-released on Mesh, Max Cooper's record label and Erased Tapes, is defined as an echoic take on rave and electronica and a modern shapeshifting of styles, showing the artist's poly-faceted compositional ranges. Pulsating and syncopated synth lines built up with minima