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”
Intro: Floating Points – Truly
01. IKONIKA-KA-KA-KA
02. Optimum – Lily
03. Ikonika – Shouldn’t Be Here
04. Zomby – Stargate
05. Mosca – Nike (Club Edit)
06. Martyn – Friedrichstrasse
07. Geiom – Sugar Coated Lover
08. TRG – Groove Control
09. Ikonika – They Are All Losing The War
10. Girl Unit – I.R.L.
11. Joy Orbison – GR Etiquette
12. Ikonika – Psoriasis
13. Jam City – Let Me Bang
14. Ikonika & Optimum – Buzz
Outro: Mount Kimbie – Sketches On Glass
N.A.S.A. – Gifted (MattB Remix)
