Some EDM-pop vibes to get your weekend kicked off right!
We’ve featured RaneRaps on the site before saying he was giving us “heavy Chance the Rapper vibes.” We are still on that vibe as far as this kid goes, but this is another decent record featuring him that’s worth some attention. Are people starting to f*ck with him yet though??
New joint from the UK’s GAIKA from his forthcoming (July 27) album. Peep the science in this PR blast:
GAIKA presents his debut album, BASIC VOLUME, after captivating listeners with a blistering pair of acclaimed, self-released mixtapes Machine and Security and Warp-released EPs SPAGHETTO and The Spectacular Empire. Now GAIKA’s darkly magnetic blend of gothic dancehall and industrial electronics has expanded into his most far-reaching work yet.
BASIC VOLUME is a sprawling yet cohesive album that devours genres and spits them out, tangled around personal tales of love, loss and rebellion. With BASIC VOLUME,GAIKA continues to simultaneously push the boundaries of electronic music and the legacy of the UK’s indelible soundsystem culture, inviting listeners into a sonic world of his creation. The 15 track collection is co-produced by GAIKA, with additional production from similarly forward thinking contemporaries, including SOPHIE, Dutch E Germ, Dre Skull and DADRAS, Aart as well as previous collaborators including Jam City, Nick Leon and Frank Ocean’s Blonde and Endless collaborator Buddy Ross.
BASIC VOLUME is today announced by the explosive arrival of ‘Crown & Key’. A muscular rallying-cry, ‘Crown & Key’ is accompanied by truly captivating, cinematic visuals, directed by Paco Raterta. Raterta says “The first time I heard ‘Crown and Key’, it reminded me of the funeral chants in the chapels of the village where I grew up, and it opened up all the biblical nightmares I use to have as a kid. If you know Christian visuals, they are very grotesque, stiff and very beautiful at the same time. The camera movement is inspired again by my memories as an altar boy, it’s basically a POV memory of mine, entering the church, carrying the bible and seeing everyone around, but the faces were always never clear, I can feel like they are looking at me, but I don’t see them at all.”
Shout to Toronto’s Shaun Frank for being one of a raft of remixes Interscope Records just droppped on this single by Chicago DJ and production duo, Louis the Child.
Brampton wins again! This is actually wild old old but I missed it when the homie, Sean sent it my way back in January. I’m surprised I haven’t seen this project floating around via other sources I usually follow for new music. Are people f*cking with this artist? I think the tracks, “Trip” and “wait” could go, maybe? Wonder how this dude feels about that EP title though?