MusicPlaylistThe only tracks you need to hear this weekNew tracks by GAIKA, J Hus, FaltyDL and Rosie Lowe feature in our roundup of the week’s best musicShareLink copied ✔️August 5, 2016MusicPlaylistTextSelim BulutIllustrationMax Rawlins This week, UK vocalist/producer/rapper GAIKA celebrated signing to Warp with an explosive new track, “3D”. It’s a banger, but it comes as part of an unusually banger-heavy week that saw East London rapper J Hus return with his first track in seven months (the triple AAA-rated belter “Playing Sports”), Swet Shop Boys (the duo of British-Pakistani actor/MC Riz Ahmed and Indian-American former Das Racist rapper Heems) release the powerful “T5”, and West Coast rappers Cam & China make their second playlist appearance in as many weeks (last week they featured on Rushmore’s “Grindin’ All Day”). Listen to the playlist below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREBjörk calls for the release of musician ‘kidnapped’ by Israeli authoritiesIB Kamara on branching out into musicVanmoofDJ Fuckoff’s guide to living, creating and belonging in Berlin‘Her dumbest album yet’: Are Swifties turning on Taylor Swift?Enter the K-Bass: How SCR revolutionised Korean club culture‘Comic Con meets underground rap’: Photos from Eastern Margins’ day festWho are H.LLS? Get to know London’s anonymous alt-R&B trioTaylor Swift has lost her grip with The Life of a Showgirl ‘Cold Lewisham nights’: Behind the scenes at Jim Legxacy’s debut UK tour All the pettiest pop beefs of 2025Has the algorithm killed music discovery? What went down at Fari Islands Festival