Riddim Seeker, by gum.mp3

Riddim Seeker

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1.	Cellphone (Redux) 03:54	buy track
2.	Love You Better (ft. Netanya) 03:27	buy track
3.	Furious (ft. Leon English) 04:47	buy track

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Virginia Beach by way of North Carolina's Dirty Bird makes his Spectral Sound/Ghostly International debut with Riddim Seeker. The latest in a prolific run for the polymath producer, the EP follows a breakout 2022 packed with city-spanning DJ sets, inspired efforts in academia, and collaborative projects with his Gum Studio community. He sees Riddim Seeker as a form of art-as-research, "an investigation into common threads of rhythm throughout black music." The three tracks access a riddim lineage under a futurist agenda, sending pop vocal cuts — from collaborators Netanya and Leon English and his own — through a wildstyle of house/garage drums, familiar basslines, and funk/jazz-oriented melodies.

On the lead track, "Cellphone," Dirty Bird's smooth cadence at the mic and keys weaves through patterns of hyper-percussion.