Ben Lukas Boysen, also known by his

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Hecq, is an

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composer based in

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Biography

Boysen studied

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and piano as a child. He moved to Berlin in the early 2000s, setting up a studio called Hecq Audio, and composed electronic music under the alias Hecq from 2003. As Hecq, he released music in a variety of electronic styles, including glitch,

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breakcore Breakcore is a style and microgenre of electronic dance music that emerged from jungle, hardcore, and drum and bass in the mid-to-late 1990s. It is characterized by very complex and intricate breakbeats and a wide palette of sampling sources ...

, abstract IDM, and dubstep, mostly on the label

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. In 2014, his piece "Sleepers Beat Theme" was featured as the opening track of Jon Hopkins's ''

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'' compilation CD. He signed with

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in 2016 and has released three solo full-length albums to date as Ben Lukas Boysen. The first, ''Gravity'', was originally issued in 2013, but was reissued by Erased Tapes in 2016; the second album, ''Spells'', was released in 2016 as well. In 2017 Boysen’s video game score in collaboration with Sebastian Plano, ''Everything'', was released; while 2020 saw the release of his third solo album ''Mirage''. Boysen also does soundtrack work and has written pieces for entities such as Marvel and

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.''Spells'' Review
XLR8R, June 2016.

Discography

As Hecq

Albums

*''A Dried Youth'' (Kaleidoskop, 2003) *''Scatterheart'' (Hymen Records, 2004) *''Bad Karma'' (Hymen Records, 2005) *''0000'' (Hymen Records, 2007) *''Night Falls'' (Hymen Records, 2008) *''Steeltongued'' (Hymen Records, 2009) *''Avenger'' (Hymen Records, 2011) *''Horror Vacui'' (Hymen Records, 2013) *''Conversions'' (

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, 2014) *''Mare Nostrum'' (Hymen Records, 2015) *''Chansons de Geste'' (Hymen Records, 2017)

Singles and EPs

*''Zetha'' (onpa))))), 2007) *''Golden Pines'' (Binkcrsh, 2008) *''Sura'' (

, 2010) *''Spheres of Fury'' (with Exillon, Contortion, 2011) *''Enceladus'' (

, 2012) *''Pain Call'' (with Skyence, Edged Music, 2013)

As Ben Lukas Boysen

Albums

*''Infinite Rounds'' (Grundruck, 2007) *''Gravity'' (

, 2013) *''Spells'' (

, 2016) *'' Everything'' (with

Sebastian Plano Sebastian Plano is an Argentinian cellist, composer and producer based in Berlin, Germany. His 2019 album ''Verve'' was nominated for Best New Age Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. He has composed the soundtrack for the video game ''Everythi ...

, Erased Tapes, 2017) *''Mirage'' (

, 2020)

Singles and EPs

* Thesis 16 (with Martin Heyne, Thesis, 2020)

Soundtracks

*''Restive'' (2012) *''Mother Nature'' (2013) *''Sleeper's Beat'' (2014) *''Sundays'' (2015) *''The Collini Case'' (2019) *''Siren Songs'' (2021)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boysen, Ben Lukas German electronic musicians 1981 births Living people Erased Tapes Records artists