GAIKA
GAIKA isn’t the type to be boxed in. Since Machine, his debut mixtape appeared in 2015, critics have struggled to stick a tidy name onto his music and art. His darkly magnetic sound evolved through follow–up mixtape Security and EPs SPAGHETTO and The Spectacular Empire on Warp Records, building expectations for what is to come in 2018.
GAIKA shape-shifts across not only musical markers but disciplines. He settles on the term ‘ghetto-futurism’ to encompass what he does. It’s easier than waiting for the latest “dancehall–meets–rave” label and allows him to build on afro-futurism to make art steeped in blackness that “harks back. It’s like the ghost in the machine. If you listen to grime, trap, dancehall, hip-hop, reggae, there’s this glory in the face of death, a celebration of the impermanence of life.” That kernel of emotion, played out by artists using the latest technology to self–produce, underpins ghetto–futurism. “Ghetto’ isn’t just to do with black people,” he says, “but it’s all the people who live under the boot, the 99%, and how we end up reveling in what other people deem the shadow.”
Discography
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- War Island OST
- Label
- The Spectacular Empire
- Catalogue Number
- TSE001D
- Release Date
- 29 aprile 2022
- LP
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- Omens
- Label
- The Spectacular Empire
- Catalogue Number
- TSE001S3
- Release Date
- 1 aprile 2022
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- Zatōichi
- Label
- The Spectacular Empire
- Catalogue Number
- TSE001S1
- Release Date
- 19 novembre 2021
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- HEADLIGHTS & HEATERS 8
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WARPDD306A
- Release Date
- 25 luglio 2019
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- HEATERS 4 THE 2 SEATERS
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WARPDD306
- Release Date
- 15 maggio 2019
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- Seven Churches For St Jude / 1800 FENDI
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WARPDD285C
- Release Date
- 19 febbraio 2019
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- BASIC VOLUME
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WARP285
- Release Date
- 27 luglio 2018
- LP
- CD
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- Crown & Key
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WARPDD285A
- Release Date
- 6 giugno 2018
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- The Spectacular Empire II
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WAP409
- Release Date
- 1 dicembre 2017
- 10″
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- The Spectacular Empire I
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WAP408
- Release Date
- 3 novembre 2017
- 10″
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- SPAGHETTO
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WAP389
- Release Date
- 19 ottobre 2016
- EP
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- 3D
- Label
- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WAP389A
- Release Date
- 3 agosto 2016
- Download
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- Artist
- GAIKA
- ReleaseProduct
- SECURITY
- Label
- Mixpak Records
- Catalogue Number
- MIXT001
- Release Date
- 21 aprile 2016
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Appears On
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- Artist
- GAIKA featuring THE NARRATOR
- ReleaseProduct
- FIRST AMONG MISFITS
- Label
- Big Dada
- Catalogue Number
- BDDNL310FW
- Release Date
- 25 luglio 2023
- Download
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- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Bleep 100 Tracks 2019
- Label
- 100 Tracks
- Release Date
- 25 dicembre 2019
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- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- 100 Tracks 2018
- Label
- 100 Tracks
- Release Date
- 24 dicembre 2018
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- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- 100 Tracks 2017
- Label
- 100 Tracks
- Catalogue Number
- BLP1002017
- Release Date
- 24 dicembre 2017
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- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- The Top 100 Tracks of 2016
- Label
- 100 Tracks
- Catalogue Number
- BLP100TRKS2016D
- Release Date
- 25 dicembre 2016
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- Artist
- Gaika (feat. Mykki Blanco)
- ReleaseProduct
- Push More Weight
- Label
- Spatial Awareness
- Catalogue Number
- SA001
- Release Date
- 11 marzo 2016
- Download
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- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Now Worldwide Compilation, Vol. 1
- Label
- NON
- Catalogue Number
- 634457450233
- Release Date
- 20 novembre 2015
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Contributor
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- Artist
- Lafawndah
- ReleaseProduct
- Ancestor Boy
- Label
- CONCORDIA
- Catalogue Number
- K7S379D
- Release Date
- 22 marzo 2019
- LP
- Download
Featured Artist
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- Artist
- Haroon Mirza, Jack Jelfs
- ReleaseProduct
- Datura on a Crescent Moon
- Label
- OUTPUTS
- Catalogue Number
- OUTPUT002
- Release Date
- 25 novembre 2020
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