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...according to our Dave on Thu 29 Oct, 2009.
The latest offering from Ikonika is called Smuck. But you wont be a smuck if you purchase this. It's the kind of thing you heard when you inhabited arcade gaming circles back in the day. It's an upbeat single with tight production and no layers of excess blubber to weigh it down. It proper zips along!!If you are a fan of J-Pop or button bashing (in the arcade game sense, not having a pop at the F1 racing champion) then this is proper up yer street....brahhpppp etc......* Planet Mu is very pleased to have Ikonika a.k.a. Sara Abdel-Hamid’s first proper release on another label outside of Hyperdub.
* Ikonika is Mixmag ‘New Artist Of The Month’ on the October issue.
* ’Smuck’ has been given a home on the label alongside Ikonika’s remix of Eero Johannes for this 12".. and what a pair they make.
* ’Smuck’ follows in the tradition of Ikonika~Rs sweet and sour, curdled sound, with ever changing off-key melodies and metal-like synth guitar lines over sweet chilled chords, the track takes her penchant for melodies that border on the atonal as far as it can go, like a sophisticated take on 8-bar grime.
* Her remix of Eero Johannes ‘We Could Be Skweeeerooos’ on the b-side simply switches up the tempo of the original, makes the rhythm nice and bouncy and tightens up the original adding some trademark bent melodies and a see-sawing bassline. The end result is a linear, melodic track that feels like it’s somewhere between Wiley and Aphex at their sweetest.
* Tracklist: A: SMUCK B: WE COULD BE IKONS (REMIX OF EERO JOHANNES)
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