gum.mp3

gum.mp3 (fka Dirty Bird) is from rural North Carolina, but his map coordinates are in constant flux. After a stint at NYU, where he was a Studio Art major, and Martin Wong Scholarship recipient headed toward a teaching career, he's now been freed up, given the momentum, to chase his musical passions. So how does one describe the music of gum.mp3? The shorthand would be house meets garage, but as he’ll tell you, he’s fusing regional flavors of dance music with elements of funk and jazz to assess different chunks of black music history and genealogy under a futurist agenda. Or, as Bandcamp said so well, "Dirty Bird—a self-described noise machine, digital pirate, and technomancer—embodies the spirit of Akomfrah’s Data Thief in both his music and his persona, acting as