Ikonika
Contact, Want, Love, Have

Ikonika's debut full-length is a big deal in the dubstep community for a few reasons. First, and most importantly, it's seen as an exciting extension ...

The debut full-length of west London producer Sara Abdel-Hamid, Contact, Want, Love, Have is already being feted as the forerunner of new movements in...

The forward-thinking record label Hyperdub has always put out quality releases time and time again, specifically when it comes to releasing full-lengt...

UK club music has a long history of experimentalism - not just evident in the brain-melting leftfieldism of great labels like Warp, but within the ver...

There's a undeniable thread that binds Hyperdub and its artists. Yet label boss, spokesman and mainline protagonist, Kode 9, has gone on the record nu...

When Ikonika's woozily dazed debut 12-inch, "Please/Simulacrum," seesawed onto the dubstep plane two years ago, people were confused. Where did this p...

Dubstep?s continuing relevance and innovation has been one of the most notable music storylines of the past half-decade. There are plenty of reasons f...

The evolution of computer games from cartridge to CD sparked at least two revelations: 1) No more having to blow dust from the microchips every time t...

Two years ago or thereabouts, Kode9’s Hyperdub label, ever ahead of the game, put out a string of 12-inches that signified an interesting shift in dub...

From the vantage point offered by her first album, you can trace the distinctive quality of Sara Abdel-Hamid’s productions all the way from her debut ...