In our latest How I Made video, IKONIKA breaks down how she made her club track ‘Kicks Count’. The track – from her latest ‘Bodies’ EP on Hyperdub – was created using Ableton Live and NI’s Maschine sampler and drum machine, which IKONIKA is a big user of.
DJ Mag Originals is launching a brand new series next week, called How I Made, where producers break down the making of their tracks, as well as their creative process.
In the series, which launches next Wednesday 12th August, we sit down with artists at our studio at DJ Mag HQ in London, and walk through the process behind some of their biggest cuts.
Ikonika has a new EP on the way.
Titled 'Bodies', the four-track release is set to drop via Don't Be Afraid, the label through which she also released 2017's 'Oral Suspension'.
In a statement shared alongside the EP's announcement, Ikonika says: "What do you do when the body has been through trauma? What do you do with a new body? How do you drive it?
Hyperdub has launched a special edition Sega Megadrive with a compilation of fresh tracks stored on a game cartridge.
Produced in collaboration with game system cloners Analogue, a company that has previously worked with similarly revered imprint Ghostly International, just 1,000 units of the limited edition Megadrive remix, dubbed the Konsolation, are available, only 150 of which will be sold in Europe.
Hyperdub has teamed up with TV network Adult Swim for a new 15th anniversary compilation titled 'HyperSwim'.
19 artists that currently make up part of Hyperdub's label roster feature on the release, including Burial, Dean Blunt, Fatima Al Qadiri, Laurel Halo, Lee Gamble, Cooly G, DJ Haram, and label head Kode9.
HyperSwim will initially be available for streaming in full via Adult Swim only this Friday, November 22nd, with a wider release set to follow across all digital platforms a day later on Saturday, November 23rd.
Next month will see Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual (L.E.V.) Matadero festival return to Spain, but this time with a difference.
Night Slugs-affiliated DJ Manara has put together a new charity compilation which focuses on edits of Bollywood Classics.
Titled 'Manara Presents: The Ultimate Spice Mix', the compilation has been released with the aim of raising money for human rights charity, Restless Beings.
Split across 13 tracks, it takes in tracks from Hyperdub-affiliated producers Ikonika and Scratcha DVA, Night Slugs' Bok Bok and Helix, Club Chai's 8ULENTINA & FOOZOOL, and the likes of Khayote, Ahadadream and Manara herself.
Adult Swim Singles have teamed up with Hyperdub affiliate Ikonika for its 44th label release, 'Resurrection Machine'.
A typically fierce club cut to the core, the bass-laden and ominous 'Resurrection Machine' is the DJ/Producer's first release since 'Into U' on Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990's Night Slugs earlier this year.
