new music: gaika’s ‘security’ mixtape is the soundtrack to the post-apocalypse #soundcheck

If you were to make a sci-fi film about an international team of astronauts returning from a 2 year mission to an asteroid to find humanity had wiped itself out, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better soundtrack than GAIKA’s latest mixtape ‘SECURITY.’ The mix of apocalyptic soundscapes, tense synths, and processed vocals demand either headphones or massive larger-than-life visuals. Highlights include the Trigga assisted “Knuckleduster” and the truly stunning “Last Dance at the Baby Grand” (which would score the scene where Idris Elba’s scientist searches a ravaged London for signs of his family). The closer “White Picket Fences” may be GAIKA’s least pop song, but the cacophonous production and 6CIB’s vocals about “city sized zoos” and “dropping fire on kids to keep the economy OK” capture the creeping anxiety that we may well be fucked better than just about anything else out there.

GAIKA’s been paranoid production has been gaining accolades left and right, and the producer-lyricist is headed on his first world tour with dates all over Europe and the East Coast.