GAIKA

GAIKA is the South London artist Gaika Tavares, a singer, rapper and writer whose parents came to the UK from Grenada and Jamaica. After time in the Manchester rap crew Murkage, he released the mixtapes Machine and Security and the Spaghetto EP, blending dancehall, grime, R&B and industrial electronics into what he calls ghettofuturism. His debut album Basic Volume came out on Warp in 2018, followed by the mixtape Heaters 4 the 2 Seaters and the Seguridad EP on N.A.A.F.I. He built the sound system sculpture System with Boiler Room at Somerset House, and his writing addresses migration, gentrification and the policing of Black music. He recorded a Dekmantel Podcast.