Moment Model GKZ a GAIKA moment

A self-professed "Ghetto Futurist", GAIKA has a reputation for being fiercely experimental and impossible to define. The London-bred, night club-raised son of Jamaican and Grenadian parents, he’s become a staple of UK experimental music, working with names like 3D (Massive Attack), Dean Blunt, Kelela, and SOPHIE, releasing on Warp Records and Big Dada, and composing the first-ever black-directed ballet with the Royal Opera House. 

In searching for the veritable ghost in the machine, GAIKA has reanimated an array of vintage synthesisers and an original early-70s electric piano to create ‘Model GKZ’, a cyborg entry to his ongoing science fiction research project GKZ. GKZ’s imagined future of multicultural London inspires the pack to traverse timelines and hybridize elements of grime, jungle, Rand;B, digi-dancehall, MPC-driven rap, Japanese hip hop, Detroit techno, anime soundtracks, and neoclassical experimentalism. It’s an atmospheric toolkit for making retro-futuristic electronic music that is simultaneously nostalgic and forward-thinking, combining intricate patch design with dynamic and emotional human performance.

“It defies easy convention.”

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