Ikonika started playing the drums in hardcore and metal bands at the age of 11. At the same time she was also listening to Hip-Hop, R&B and UK Garage. As a consequence, it was obvious Ikonika’s musical genre raiding would influence her dubstep productions. In the summer of 2005, Ikonika started banging out Hip-Hop tracks under the name Kill Kip, but lack of progression and creativity led to endless tedium.
Jessy Lanza is a Canadian artist from Hamilton, Ontario who has released her debut album Pull My Hair Back on Hyperdub in 2013. Lanza is currently working as a music teacher in her hometown. She studied jazz performance and piano for her bachelor's at Concordia University in Montreal. Despite her degree in jazz, Lanza's main loves are R&B, hip-hop and electronic music, which she discovered through her father.
Ann Arbor's latest prodigal son and lover of sprinkles on doughnuts, takes the legacy of all Detroit's talented musical sons and daughters and makes Hip Hop beats filled with snippets of Soul, Funk, 70's Italian horror flick soundtracks, Nintendo bonus level music, and 90's Hip Hop. Somehow, with this much content, the beats still manage to sound gloriously minimal and disjointed. Fans like Benji B, Andrew Meza and XLR8R have been eagerly snapping up his tracks, as Sam freeze frames Electro energy and spits it back out as twisted future Jazz.
This artist should be tagged Kode9 Kode9 is a leading figure in the South London Dubstep scene. As a producer and DJ he most known for his collaborations with MC the SpaceApe aka Daddi Gee. He is also the founder of the pioneering UK label Hyperdub. Along with Pinch, one of the few producers at the dawn of Dubstep not be from Croydon. He is in fact Scottish.
Dubstep artist on the Hyperdub label. http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/16/lv-silent-globetrotters/
Playing a mixture of original material and their own distinctive arrangements of vintage songs, The Curst Sons explore the hidden backwaters of American traditional music. Inspired by the pre-Rock & Roll world of Blues, Gospel and Old Time, their sound has been described as Hillbilly Blues, Country Punk and even Thrash Skiffle. Call it what you like, it’s infectious good-time party music, leavened with the occasional dark ballad or wistful waltz.
Together, Kode9 and Spaceape produce post-everything low end electroid beats, with toasted vocals in the style of Linton Kwesi Johnson. Kode9 runs Hyperdub, a London based label specializing in dubstep.
