GAIKA - Glad We Found It

What this video is

Released in late November 2016, 'Glad We Found It' arrived as part of GAIKA's SPAGHETTO EP on Warp Records — a landmark signing that placed a self-described 'ghetto futurist' from Brixton, South London within the same avant-garde lineage as Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada. The video represents a rare transatlantic creative collaboration: GAIKA's Afro-Caribbean British identity and post-grime sonic politics meeting…

Why it matters

Occupies a pivotal position in the mid-2010s convergence of UK post-grime experimentalism and Atlanta underground rap aesthetics. GAIKA's fusion of dancehall, trap, and grime, co-produced here by Jam City, prefigures the 'gothic dancehall and industrial electronics' sound formalised on his 2018…

The director

Father (born Centel Orlando Mangum, August 20, 1990) is an American rapper, record producer, and founder of the Atlanta-based independent label Awful Records. He rose to prominence within the Awful Records collective, which he founded with friends after…