Hansel was formed nearly a decade and a half ago, when its founders, Master Fux and MX Lopex, were still in high school. Even then, the pair's music was eclectic, drawing on influences as diverse as hip-hop, experimental rock, and more than a little of Trent Reznor's intricate electronic production. With their debut full-length album, Respond_Violence, Fux and Lopex combined their eclectic influences with a deliberately paradoxical approach to arrangement and songwriting that juxtaposed jagged bursts of industrial noise and screaming with classical elements. Their second album, Lorentzian Lineshaper, took things even further by viewing hip-hop through a deconstructed futurist lens. Though Lopex left the band in 2006, Hansel released a remix album, Reshaping Linear Formulai, last year, and Fux is currently at work compiling a collection of rarities and covers as well as assembling new material.