Gonja Sufi - Kowboyz & Indians

What this video is

Released in 2010 on Warp Records, 'Kowboyz & Indians' emerged from the convergence of the Los Angeles beat scene (Brainfeeder, Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer) with a strand of lo-fi desert psychedelia and Sufi-inflected mysticism. Gonjasufi (Sumach Valentine), born in San Diego to a Mexican mother and American-Ethiopian father, embodied a hybridized outsider identity that the song's Cowboys-and-Indians metaphor…

Why it matters

Represents a critical junction in 2010s experimental hip-hop/psychedelic soul: the Warp Records/Brainfeeder crossover moment where underground LA beat-scene production aesthetics merged with non-Western mysticism and maximally lo-fi audio-visual presentation. The video's anti-spectacle stance…