Jun
12

Sach O: King Midas Sound – Live & Lost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsChbAKahFY Expect more words about King Midas Sound in the near future, I nabbed a killer interview with Kevin Martin and Roger Robinson and am currently mulling what to do with it. In the meantime, I beseech you: see them live by whatever means necessary. Though the group’s album “Waiting for You” remains one of… Continue reading »

May
11

Ikonika – XLR8R Podcast

Sach already articulated why Ikonika turned in one of the year’s finest bass music records, so there’s little need to reiterate why Sara Abdel Hamid provides definitive proof that excessive video game play is not necessarily a bad thing.  XLR8R asked the first lady of Hyperdub to lace them with a podcast and she drops… Continue reading »

Apr
30

Sach O: Komodo Dubs, LD and Katana-step

Photo by Jonathan Clark While Montreal’s club scene mostly remains the domain of muscle-shirted cretins and vapid-eyed skeezers* gorging themselves on bottle service to the rhythms of Euro-House and cheese-trance, the city has also spawned a wonderfully diverse selection of bass-music events over the past few years. Everyone has their niche from Boudah Slinky’s student-centered… Continue reading »

Apr
13

Sach O: Ikonika – Contact, Love, Want, Have

Sach O prefers his videogames 16 Bit When it’s all said and done, videogames will be the one common unifying element of our generation. Whether you were into rap, a goth kid, a skater, a raver, a metalhead, a nerd or any of the other thousand subcultures floating around in the pre-internet 90’s, you were… Continue reading »

Mar
24

Sach O: Hyper-Damn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kimlSani-A4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX4u0S7ev4k There’s two sides to every story (and if these walls could talk, they’d probably still ignore me). While I bitch about people bitching about Dubstep, Kode 9′s Hyperdub label shrugs and keeps it moving, packing it’s 2009 release schedule with UKfunky, Grime and Detroit House. At least, that’s what the releases claim to… Continue reading »

Mar
08

The Video Game Glide of Ikonika

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… Continue reading »

Nov
14

Cooling Out With King Midas Sound

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,… Continue reading »

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