TAG: Streets of Rage

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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Jan18

Lone: Sending Synthesized Shivers Down Your Spine + EXCLUSIVE Unreleased Track (MP3)

Going between the worlds of Aphex Twin and Wu-Tang, while stopping by for some chocolate cake. 

Matt Cutler is a producer that comes too few and far between. From starting his music career with the vastly underrated project Kids In Tracksuits, Cutler was always on the otherworldly hip-hop tip, finding ways to exploit beats into tasty audible pretzel knots. When he took on the moniker of Lone, he twisted the knots even further and threw lush synth sounds to create audible journeys into an ethereal utopia clouded by the selective samples used in his tracks. However, since he’s always making tons of these fantastic tunes, he rarely has time to do a full-fledged interview. Luckily, we got a hold of Lone at the right time: right after his stellar album Ecstasy & Friends came out, and he gave us details on his musical uprooting, his tune-making process and his favorite artists at the moment. All that, plus an exclusive unreleased track down below for download! …MORE

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