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Musical polymath and visual artist Sean Schuster-Craig has been creating mind-bending mashups of hip-hop beats and avant garde incidents under the name Jib Kidder for at least three years now. And everything he's done using that moniker is worth paying at least a little attention to, especially Music For Hypnotized Minds, the strange and beautiful sample-based album he released earlier this year on Sufjan Stevens' label Asthmatic Kitty. ---
Schuster-Craig is back for more in 2011 with a new release forthcoming on States Rights Records entitled Steal Guitars. And from the sounds of this first track released from it, the disc is another woozy bit of genius, a soundtrack to dance club footage being chopped up by an editor on a sugar high.
Really, "Do It All The Time", and so much of Jib Kidder's other work, feels like the spiritual cousin to the Australian DJ/producer collaborative The Avalanches. Like that group's still vibrant album Since I Left You, this new Kidder track bubbles with its own internal logic. Drum fills and guitar lines pinched from '70s vinyl repeat with giddy abandon, and a voice pipes in every once in a while to intone the song's title.
Only knock on this track: it's all over much to quickly. I can only imagine that this little bit is stitched into a larger whole. And damnit I want to hear where Kidder goes from here! Until then, time to put the track on repeat.
WWeek 2015