TAG: Martyn

Apr09

Ikonika: Track-By-Track Introspective On Her Debut Album

The young producer shares her thoughts on her influences and process throughout her album. 

Ikonika’s creative process is one that goes between inside jokes, cheeky video-game references and everything one can think of. With the world taking notice of her debut full-length Contact, Love, Want, Have it’s safe to say the album was hyped up for a while. With her individualistic approach to 8-bit, R’nB and hip-hop sounds, the album speaks for itself quite nicely. However, we wondered what was the process, the stories behind the creation of the record, what and how it was significant. So when we approached the Hyperdub heroine to talk about her tunes, one-by-one, she explained the origins of title and their purpose individually and cohesively on the album.

1. “Ikonoklast (Insert Coin)”

IKONIKA: I really wanted an introduction, kinda influenced by Martyn’s Great Lengths I wanted to make a track solely on my Moog. It was a full …

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Apr09

Ikonika – Contact, Love, Want, Have (Review)

Ikonika

Contact, Love, Want, Have

Released by Hyperdub


The forward-thinking record label Hyperdub has always put out quality releases time and time again, specifically when it comes to releasing full-length albums. With successful and memorable releases provided by Burial, Kode 9 + The Spaceape and King Midas Sound, the time had come to garner another collection of cohesive audible bits that would form to be the next step in Hyperdub's album history. Enter Ikonika, a producer putting out releases on the label since 2008 (12"s such as Please/Simalcrum and Millie/Direct) and garnered a steady stream of praise for her style of spinning and selection. With rumors of her release starting in early 2009, many were eager and wondering what would come of it. The question that many had raised was: "Would this be a club record or a personal record?" The answer to that question is left to the eye of the beholder, but what is achieved sonically on this record is nothing short of introspective, atmospheric and an all-out good time.

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Mar11

Martyn: Unifying The Grooves Worldwide

A conversation about electronic music, then, now and everywhere. 

The dancefloor is an ever-changing world that twists and turns night by night. With so many different rhythms taking over parts of the world, it’s becoming increasingly challenging for DJs to put things together fluidly in sets. Enter producer and DJ Martyn. Born in the Netherlands and based in Washington, D.C., he spins a clever of mix of everything from classic New York house and Detroit techno into “post-dubstep” and funky tunes. Melding his own “Martyn music” with the current sounds of mutated dubstep, extraterrestrial funky house and tribal drums, Martyn makes sure his tunes are just as immersive as his DJ sets. When he was approached to do Fabric 50, he took the idea of shifting the mix into his own mind and putting out the sounds he loves. Needless to say, Martyn is a fantastic DJ and producer, and makes sure whoever is listening will hear a history of music–not just the now. He took some time to speak with URB about his current musical endeavors, his love for classic tunes and how he’s never been to Detroit–until DEMF 2010, of course.

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Dec22

Sonic Router (Video & MP3)

Suburban Sine Wave Surfing 

As it stands right now, on the eve of 2010, bass music is a beautiful mess. Stretched and tortured by numerous influences and the possible avenues for producers to take, its become splintered but, in the same way the T1000 glooped back together in Terminator 2, it constantly manages to gel to its roots, evolving away from its half step/atmospherics in what seem more like ellipses than cycles. And whilst London remains somewhat of an epicentre for many of dubstep’s microcosms, other bubbles of ingenuity have sprung up around the globe with keen producers and promoters ready to move with the ethos of dubstep and put their own distinctive slant on the sound.

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