• Artists

  • iaka Hamburg, Germany

    Iaka released his first Acidtracks on coloured vinyl in 1993. Despite his Indian roots, he escaped the back-then trendy goa-vibes and instead got involved with drum\'n\'bass. In 1997, he founded plain productions in order to freely distribute his musical ideas to other like-minded fellows, without having to compromise. Today\'s productions by Iaka are marked by a great love of detail and well-balanced arrangements. The foundation for his own blueprint of drum\'n\'bass is the modulation of sounds and beats. That\'s why there often are complex drum patterns and demanding beat structures in his tracks. In Hamburg, he is mostly known as a DJ and as one of the people organising the drumbule-parties. There, he regularly surprises people with two fisted club-sets, which stand in sharp contrast to his own productions.

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  • Releases on plainaudio

  • [PP005MD] iaka - the one we like August 2005

    iaka, label founder and dj, flexes his skills on this release. "the one we like" is his first output on his own label and it sports outstanding technique and unique sound. "the one you like" is a freshly shuffled roller featuring huge reese-bass clearly destined to get people's feet moving. it is very bass-heavy with occasional vocoder-vocals thrown in and reveals its full potential when the sequencer hookline finally hits you. massive. "the one i like" starts of with sinister atmosphere and d ...

  • [PP020MD] iaka - es rappelt im karton November 2006

    After two releases on Plainaudio the label's head honcho returns with another 3-tracker under his Iaka alias. Double A-Side "Rumpelkiste" and "Zappenduster" represent the full range of the man's typical deep-spaced out and disturbing soundscapes as well as his very unique-sounding layered beats and bouncey basslines. The cleanness and sterility of the sounds as well as the high precision and the focused concentration on details obviously show, in which way Manu Harmilapi (Iaka's Electronic alias ...