Pursuit Grooves

Pursuit Grooves is the alias of Vanese Smith, a Toronto-based producer, vocalist, graphic designer, and video artist whose genre-blurring music constantly explores unconventional sounds and rhythms. Evolving from the abstract hip-hop of her early productions, releases such as 2011's Frantically Hopeful showcase her unique approach to building rhythms as well as her thoughtful lyrics. Raised in the Washington, D.C. area and later based in Brooklyn, Smith started releasing instrumental hip-hop CD-Rs under the name Pursuit Grooves (an extension of her previous MC moniker, Pursu...