Jib Kidder

Jib Kidder serves as one alias among several that multimedia collagist Sean Schuster-Craig employs when creating either chalk graffiti murals or intricate musical mosaics. Growing up in Georgia exposed Schuster-Craig to the Southern hip-hop scene, an influence he later honored by assembling the online anthology Twankle and Glisten. After spending time in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he eventually settled in San Francisco. Numerous self-released albums and mixtapes issued under the Kid Slizzard moniker preceded his official debut, the 2008 States Rights album All on Y'all, which arrived alongside the companion All on Y'all: Da Mixtape!. One track, “Windowdipper,” transformed Windows operating system alert tones into a booty bass anthem whose cut-and-paste video spread widely online and whose audio later featured on the Fox series So You Think You Can Dance?. Licensing revenue from that placement funded a year-long relocation to Los Angeles, during which Schuster-Craig completed three projects—Lossy Angeles, Beloved Forever Calling, and Music for Hypnotized Minds—the last of which Asthmatic Kitty issued in 2011. Further output followed quickly: the full-length Steal Guitars in 2012 and the 2013 cassette album IV, issued jointly by Gnar Tapes and Burger Records. At that stage, the most expansive statement arrived with 2015’s Teaspoon to the Ocean, a hypnotic blend of samples and live instrumentation that distilled more than a decade of refinement and contained several of the project’s strongest pieces. Care of Editions released the experimental LP New Works for Realistic Mixer the next year, and the Teaspoon successor Pay 2 Play appeared in 2017 across varied cassette and CD editions.