Gacha

Georgian musician Gacha Bakradze first surfaced in 2012 on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22R%26S+Records%22">R&S Records</a> sublabel <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Apollo%22">Apollo</a> with "Remember," a <a href="spotify:artist:3fMbdgg4jU18AjLCKBhRSm">Michael Jackson</a>-sampling downtempo cut with smooth, atmospheric guitar. B-side "Bowl," however, was uptempo, shuffling future garage in the vein of <a href="spotify:artist:0ZCB95QaI7Tgdnb2yU2iNg">Pariah</a> or <a href="spotify:artist:3KOHpygRuo1ruQAbEneR3t">George FitzGerald</a>. Gacha's next two releases, on smaller labels <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Teal+Recordings%22">Teal Recordings</a> and <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%222nd+Drop+Records%22">2nd Drop Records</a>, were credited to just his surname, <a href="spotify:artist:2AqVmFhYMPw9X96AbbpNrE">Bakradze</a>, and ranged from broken beat to tech-house tracks. Gacha returned to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Apollo%22">Apollo</a> in early 2014 with the release of the EP When the Watchman Saw the Light, which ranged from spacious downtempo tracks (featuring guest vocals by <a href="spotify:artist:0oRqH3Y13xmPoJecs64wVr">Natalie Beridze</a>/<a href="spotify:artist:3nPgr87F0jYc3kliT3lauw">TBA</a>) to rolling, bass-heavy dance tracks. By the end of 2014, Gacha had released another EP as <a href="spotify:artist:2AqVmFhYMPw9X96AbbpNrE">Bakradze</a>, and contributed tracks to <a href="spotify:artist:0si3qPiSptTnVbdGByVAMd">John Beltran</a>'s ambient compilation Music for Machines (one credited to his full name and another under the pseudonym Winter Flags). In early 2015, Gacha announced his debut album for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Apollo%22">Apollo</a>, Send Two Sunsets, which also featured guest vocals from <a href="spotify:artist:0oRqH3Y13xmPoJecs64wVr">Natalie Beridze</a>. He continued releasing EPs on labels such as <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Transfigured+Time%22">Transfigured Time</a> and <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Best+Works+Records%22">Best Works Records</a>, generally credited to his full name. He returned to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Apollo%22">Apollo</a> in 2017 with an EP titled We Must Be Woods. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi