Hecq is the artist name chosen by Ben Lukas Boysen, a Berlin-based musician who produces intelligent dance music (IDM) and, more recently, ambient electronic music. He is also fairly well known for his remixes for artists such as Haujobb, Black Lung, Snog, and In Strict Confidence (you may remember the Hecq Destruxxion remix album of ISC’s Exile Paradise which was released in June of 2007), but his latest work is all his own.

Night Falls is the name of Hecq’s new album and it is the fulfillment of his ventures into a more ambient sound that were started on his previous album 0000. Initial reports from his website put the release in March, but Infrarot.de has the release date listed as April 18th. Either way, you can now find the album there or on Ant Zen’s mailorder site (Ant Zen is in collaboration with Hecq’s label, Hymen Records, because they don’t have a mailorder site of their own).

You can listen to some of the songs on Night Falls at a number of different places. I recommend going to Hecq’s page on Virb or the page specifically for the album. You can also visit his MySpace page to hear some music. Just a note, though: He doesn’t use the standard MySpace music player. Instead, there’s a flash player in the left column underneath the name and contact buttons. Don’t miss it.

Hecq - Night Falls tracklisting
01. Night Falls
02. NeverLeave
03. Dis
04. Dis (Reverberation)
05. BendingTime
06. Aback
07. ComeHome
08. Giants
09. Magnetism
10. Redsky
11. Above
12. I Am You

ISC is short for In Strict Confidence, which is a fantastic darkwave EBM group. Their 2006 album Exile Paradise met much acclaim and the band had a successful tour following the album’s release. During the past months, sound designer Benny Boysen (who has worked with companies like MTV, BBC, and the Discovery Channel) has remixed the entire album into a whole new monster, just like he did in 2004 with ISC’s album Holy. The remixed album will be released on June 8th and will be simply called Exile Paradise - Hecq Destruxxion. Once again, just like the Holy remix album, production will be strictly limited to only 1,111 units which will be available in a sleek metal box.

Exile Paradise - Hecq Destruxxion tracklist
01. The harder they come… (Destroyed)
02. Promised Land (Going far edit)
03. Forbidden Fruit Tragic Loss Edit)
04. Fading Light (Neon Remake)
05. Wintermoon (Silver Trace)
06. Manchmal redest du im Schlaf (Still sleeping)
07. Regicide (Dissinger Miqs)
08. Der Teufel (Simplex Warchant)
09. Away from here (Removed Version)
10. In favilla (Ignis Spiritus Version)
11. Something to remember (Revisited)
12. …the harder they fall (Cracked)

You can pre-order the new album on the Minuswelt.de webshop which is In Strict Confidence’s record label, or from any number of other online retailers. In the US, you might be able to find it on the Metropolis Records mailorder site soon (but it’s not there yet) because they have a lot of ISC releases available.

In Strict Confidence links
Official website: InStrictConfidence.de
On Myspace: to listen to songs from the original Exile Paradise album