Jim Carey’s “Black Swan > Ikonika’s “Black Swan > Black Swan

Sach O listens to Hum & Buzz when he rolls. Ikonika’s Contact Love Want Have is still in rotation, a full length with definitive staying power whose shiny textures and laser synth lines go in perfect tandem with the spring air. A bridge between her earlier Dubstep-influenced experimentation and new all-post-everything sound, it’s the kind […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]