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gum.mp3 makes lush electronic music with rhythms drawing from house and garage music, but there’s a surprising depth of scholarship beneath the surface of these dance tracks. Though he’s only been producing since 2019, gum.mp3’s songs refract the electronic music of his predecessors from Ryuichi Sakamoto to Moodymann, assembling inviting grooves no matter the BPM.
The North Carolina-born, Baltimore-based producer and DJ is fairly prolific, and collaborative besides, having worked with MIKE, Fifi Zhang, and swoozydolphin in addition to longer joint projects with Swami Sound and Dxzegxd. More than anything, it’s gum’s attention to sound design that sets Black Life, Red Planet and Gum’s Mixtape apart from his peers.
