Ikonoklast EP (Incl. Funkineven Rmx)

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.