Hecate
As Head Mistress of Zhark International, Hecate has been responsible for relentlessly fostering and producing the most evil breaks and noise since 1996. Besides being named "most prolific female producer" in hard electronic music, she has broadened her scope of damage to genres including Death and Black Metal in recent years. She has been touring the world with the most sinister and intense performances to date. Two years of non stop travel/recording/performing has led her once again back to Berlin to make a base to finish off the new LP and take care of the next Zhark... read more
Ad Noiseam
Ad Noiseam's purpose is to release interesting music from a variety of genres. Mainly focused on electronic music, the label has released in the past albums and singles from such a variety of styles as clicks'n'cuts, breakcore, drones, IDM, jazz or dubstep. Ad Noiseam is clearly not a niche label.
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Truth through diversity: Hecate breaks a long period of silence with an EP on which four of her closest collaborators get to remix and mash up material from her Brew Hideous album. From the fast paced breakcore of the Amboss and Vile Enginez remixes to the solemnity of the White Darkness (a.k.a. Bong-Ra) and Slutmachine ones, Hecate's music gets revealed and amplified under each of its aspect. Let is be heard that the reigning queen of breakcore is back, not alone, and with a vengeance.
Pitch dark, gritty, mysterious, the touch of this essential and veteran figure of breakcore is easily recognized here, but treated in four very distinct ways. Berlin's Amboss comes with a shattered (and shattering) breakcore tune in which rapid fire drum'n'bass beats collide on top of Hecate's trademark dark noise. The later is at the core of Slutmachine (a regular Hecate partner in crime) remix, more solemn, mid-tempo and providing more space for Hecate's incantation-like vocals in an oppressive, creeping manner.
On the flip side, Zhark's Vile Enginez gives way to Hecate's extravaganza with a speedcore-leaning broken tune, something in which the darkness of the original material is set aside to the profit of sheer madness Bong-Ra, who has often shared stages, records and remixes with Hecate, is of course present with a closing track on this new EP, this time under his White Darkness moniker, with which he signs a suffocating, heavy and particularly dense piece; almost beat-less, but somber and massive.
A gloomy, noisy and aggressive EP, Brew Hideous Remixes is a way for Hecate to come back to the front of the stage and bring a new light to what was arguably one of her most under-rated release. A rare treat for fans of utterly shattered beats and rhythms, it finally brings her again to the vinyl format with four solid collaborations that enable her material to be presented in as many ways as possible. From her more solemn side to the hardest of her breakcore nature, Brew Hideous Remixes is Hecate's music displayed at its truest, most varied and possibly hardest.
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