- In a between-genre world where playful vibrancy is key, Sam Schorb stands (or, rather, flails) in a permanent state of epileptic fit. The only thing holding him in place is the straightforward house rhythms that he chooses over the 2-step skip of many of his would-be garage contemporaries. Nonetheless, his first 12-inch for Keysound (who will release his debut album later this year) features his most careful, focused track yet. "Ridin" darts determinedly and decisively as Schorb keeps his arpeggios reined in rather than letting them run buck-wild like usual even as the song's helium gangsta chorus chants its title.
The other three tracks are business as usual for Schorb. "Be Free" and "Crystal Gaea" both see Damu returning to the easel with his fingerpaints, haphazardly splotching the canvas with runs of giddy melody. The former continues Damu's perversion of R&B tropes, while the latter finds him successfully incorporating 8-bit bleeps and bloops. The EP is rounded out with "Karolina's Magic J," a suitably weird concoction of wonkily descending riffs and strange vocal samples, something like Girl Unit on a bad trip.
Tracklist A1 Ridin'
A2 Crystal Gaea
B1 Be Free
B2 Karolina's Magic J