Planet Mu is very pleased to have Ikonika a.k.a. Sara Abdel-Hamids first proper release on another label outside of Hyperdub. Ikonika is Mixmags New Artist Of The Month on the October issue. >Smuck< has been given a home on the label alongside Ikonikas remix of Eero Johannes for this 12 inch ... 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 its somewhere between Wiley and Aphex at their sweetest.
