March 8th, 2010
Hyperdub-signed Ikonika’s been building steam with a grain of smoke since last year’s “Sahara Michael” introduced the world to her blazed and glazed video game glide, a sound rightfully described by Sach as evidence that she’s “spent more time playing videogames than I have, and makes better nostalgic music than the glo-fi kids (save Memory Tapes and occasionally Washed Out).” Her forthcoming Hyperdub album, Contact, Love, Want, Have figures to make her an instant darling among the media hordes clamoring to call someone the M.I.A. of dubstep. Critics stop before you have begun. Samus Aran comparisons are welcome.
Regardless of potential novelty engendered by the dearth of female bass producers, Ikonika is worthy of the deluge sure to come her way. Her recently unleashed podcast for Made in Glitch is evidence enough, featuring some of her early singles, a cut off the new album, and an immaculately mixed platter from white-hot scene staples like Joy Orbison, Floating Points, Mosca, and TRG. And if her Twitter page is to be believed, she’s attempting to work with Nikki Minaj, a collaboration that would conceivably make several heads at The Fader explode. This can only be viewed as a good thing.
Like we always do about this time, tracklist below the jump.
Download:
MP3: Ikonika - “Made in Glitch Podcast 11″
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November 14th, 2009
I’d been meaning to write something on the very solid King Midas Sound collaboration between singer/poet Roger Robinson and British dubstep deacon Kevin Martin, or as he is more popularly known around these parts, The Bug. However, the ever-dependable Nate Patrin does my homework for me with his Pitchfork review: “every strength this record holds, draws off the symbiotic relationship between Martin’s beats and Robinson’s voice, which adapt to each other in a way that the last two people in a barren environment might. This is dub production rendered as the final reverberations of a deserted cityscape, infused with a crumbling low-end that does for bass what a single fluorescent tube in an underground concrete tunnel does for light. And the voice decorates it like a spiderweb– fragile in appearance, but structurally resilient enough to hold strong against the rhythm.”
Needless to say, if you don’t like spiderwebs and/or this record, you may be a coward. Also, recommended reading is this Fact magazine Q&A, where Martin and Robinson reveal their inspirations (Lover’s Rock, Horace Andy, Gregory Isaacs, Cornell Campbell), how living in London affects their sound, and Robinson’s rapso past (a form of rapped calypso music native to Trinidad, who knew?).
Download:
MP3: King Midas Sound-”Cool Out” (Left-Click)
MP3: King Midas Sound-”One Ting (Dabrye Remix)” (Left-Click)
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