Ikonika - Ikonoklast EP

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 09 Dec, 2010.

After what has since become known as 'The Great Terror Danjah Mislabling Disaster of Half-An-Hour Ago' I'm not 100% convinced I'm reviewing the right tracks here but never mind. Oh, there's a voice going 'Ikonoklast'! That's helpful! The lead track doesn't last long but kinda reminds me of Headhunter's stuff around the time of Nomad, except with some of those squiggly radioactive synth worms wiggling their way over the top. The Funkineven remix of 'Idiot' is bang tidy, I've got to say. I'm particularly loving the crisp drum sound and the way it keeps switching up from minimal and thudding to dextrous and distorted.. It's almost enough to make you forget about the classy electro melodies that as pinging around above it. 'Yoshimitsu' makes me wish I was bombing around Tokyo on Metropolis Street Racer on the Dreamcast.. Perhaps that's just the title being all suggestive and stuff but I definitely think it's got a futuristic city sort of a feel to it.. A bit of a Blade Runner thing maybe? The Joh remix of Ikonoklast is pretty strong also. A nice EP!

This release is the last in the series of EPs highlighting stand-out tracks from Ikonika's 'Contact, Love, Want, Have' album. It opens with ‘Ikonoklast (Insert Coin)’, her de-facto signature tune, which mixes what sounds like a backwards accordion with lo-riding bass and the repeated phrase “I – I – Ikono-klast”. Funkineven from Eglo Records weigh in with a remix of ‘Idiot’ in laid back spacey old school electro fashion, taking the original melody and the bpm's down a touch and adding some analogue drum machines, arpeggios and harmonies. One of the most epic tracks on the album, ‘Yoshimitzu’, finally gets a vinyl outing, meshing bitter sweet splashes of Drexciyan synth against an undertow of serious sub and downcast melody. Finally, 'Ikonoklast' is remixed by J.O.H., and given the Chicago footwork treatment, stripping the original down to the title vocal hook wrapped around claps, pummelling kicks and toms, and a heavy bassline, to create something that keeps Ikonika's warm spacious production qualities intact while transforming its groove.

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