If one didn’t know any better, one could say that dubstep might as well be called dude-step. From a quick glance it looks like a bunch of d'n'b guerners, baseball caps pulled low to avoid eye contact at any cost. However if you assume that's what it's all about, you've missed the point almost entirely.
A lot of London’s key dub step champions are women – take for example Mary Anne Hobbs, Queen of Bass, and Sarah Souljah, founder of one of the genre’s most important nights, FWD>>. Championed by many including her label boss Kode9, Ikonika is another lady making ovaries and/or man bits wobble with her dubstep/2-step/video-game beats.
Contact, Love, Want, Have is the debut full length from Ikonika AKA Sara Abdel-Hamid. It’s got that icy windchill that is characteristic of most dubstep, but Ikonika also mixes up the general formula, messing with tempos and rhythms to extend the attention span. Once again sisters be doing it for ourselves.
Contact, Love, Want, Have is out early April.
Ikonika 'Sahara Michael':
More at
myspace.com/ikonika.