Album Notes

Straight No Chaser (Magazine)
Winter 2006 (Georgia Anne Muldrow cover)
pg 48
PURSUIT GROOVES - Fun Like Passion CD review

"Ladies and gentleman, we got another one. An imaginative astro-beat maker that is. She goes by the name of Vanese Smith, or Pursuit Grooves when in her modest studio or spinnin' around NYC and beyond. With detectable nods to the likes of Bling47, Dilla, Cameo, Loose Ends and what not she's come up with a synth-laden suite of pressurised beats, sometimes palpitating and passionate as on 'Healing Secrets', at other times organic and crisp and "boom bap" based on 'Sensation' and 'Missin U Simply'. It's that intimate and often tender dimension to the compositions that really makes it work, as an entire album. Airplay is growing and Jay Scarlett's picked a track for his forthcoming beatstrumentals comp on Kindred (this should be Rush Hour Records) Bless. Ladies everywhere, step into the studio and get involved."
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Nuff Stylee - Store in Glasgow, UK
Fun Like Passion CD review

Currently residing in Brooklyn New York, female producer Pursuit Grooves delivers what we consider to be a truly sublime journey into experimental beats and grooves; sending out a sound that much like life itself presents moments that are energetic, melancholic, angular, soft, invigorating and soothing; but above all engrossing. This album is a real beat odyssey from start to finish revealing hints of Jazz, fused with the sparks of the Detroit tech pioneers along with explorations into instrumental hip hop and all things broken; so the producer's aim to "Seek, Hunt and Capture Your Ears" is effortlessly achieved...Music for heads, hearts and feet!
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Tracks have been played and supported by Elevations Radio( WHCR 90.3FM, NYC), Eavesdrop (WKDU 91.7FM, Philadelphia), RhythmLab Radio (MPR Minneapolis/Milwaukee),
Deviation (BBC 1,UK), Off Limits Radio (UK), Breaktime Radio (NY), BTS Radio (CA), Comeonfeet (Austria), Bogaloo Radio (Germany), Underground Solution (RTRFM 92.1, Perth, Australia),Bass Boulevard Radio (Munich,Germany FM 94.5), Basic Soul (UK), Off World (France), Nova Planet (Greece), Playground (WCRW 89.9FM , CA), to name a few...