HECATE :Berlin: hymen/zod/zhark records
http://www.zhark.org/
http://www.myspace.com/hecate
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hecate
Head mistress of Zhark International, Rachael Kozak, lives to annihilate the constructs of the innocuous trends of modern music by confronting them with substance and emotion. Creating a portal to the unspeakable abyss on a multitude of allied labels, Hecate has released over 30 records which makes her by far the most prolific female producer in hard electronic music. Thoroughly immersed in the amalgamation of the esoteric arts, science fiction and nightmare landscapes, Hecate transgresses the boundaries of all known genres.
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There is no greater single force of personality in the scene than Hecate, the founder of the fiercely independent Zhark International label and creator of 10 year's worth of "the most destroyed and blasphemous electronic beat fuckery". Her sound is a dark, almost alchemic hybrid of blistering, stuttering breaks, power noise, and Eastern influences, and she has collaborated with numerous artists from across both the breakcore and the Satanic, Black, and Death metal scenes.
Hecate born Rachael Kozak and currently living in Basel, Switzerland is keenly aware of status as a female label owner and artist in a male-dominated scene; sex is a major theme in her work, along with death and the occult. One of the most extreme examples of Hecate's aesthetic is Nymphomatriarch, an album made entirely out of recordings of herself and Venetian Snares having sex on their two-week tour in 2003.
If you're getting the idea that Kozak is the scene's ultimate provocateur, you're not half wrong. But for all itâ's blatant shock value, Nymphomatriarch, like all her releases, is still highly emotional, dark music that kicks ass, blowing everyone else away for raw complexity and energy. Hecate is clearly a force to be reckoned with, a claim recently reinforced by the April release of her Brew Hideous (Sublight/Hymen) album.
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FUBU REACTIONARY tuesday ladies night ' HECATE & HARA ISIS
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