clipping.

clipping.
Origin Los Angeles, California, United States[1]
Genres Experimental hip hop,[2] noise[3]
Years active 2009[4]–present
Labels Deathbomb Arc, Sub Pop
Associated acts Busdriver, Captain Ahab, Rale, True Neutral Crew
Website www.itsclippingbitch.com
Members
  • Daveed Diggs
  • William Hutson
  • Jonathan Snipes

clipping. is an experimental hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. The group consists of MC Daveed Diggs, William Hutson (who also makes noise music as Rale), and Jonathan Snipes (also of Captain Ahab).[3]

Biography

Diggs and Hutson met in grade school, while Hutson and Snipes were college room-mates.[5] The group began in 2009 as a remix project, with Hutson and Snipes taking a cappellas of mainstream rap artists and making power electronic and noise remixes of them to amuse themselves. Diggs joined in 2010, and began to write his own raps over their compositions.[4] They self-released their first album, Midcity, on their website on February 5, 2013.[6] Though their expectations were low, and despite minimal promotion, the album was well-received, and five months later, they signed to Sub Pop. Their second album, CLPPNG, was released on June 10, 2014.[4]

The group do not see their abrasive sound as a rejection of mainstream hip hop or reaction against it, but as part of a hip hop tradition including the likes of Dr. Dre and Public Enemy producers The Bomb Squad, who experimented with production and also used harsh, musique concrète-esque techniques in their music. Similarly, they think of themselves as a rap group rather than industrial-rap, noise-rap, or other mash-up genres.[4]

Style and influences

The group have drawn comparisons to the likes of Dälek, Death Grips, My Bloody Valentine,[3] Tim Hecker and Shabazz Palaces.[7] The Guardian described their sound as "the sort of shrill thrills you imagine could function as incidental soundtrack music for a documentary about abattoirs or might conceivably be the work of a young band intent on twisting industrial metal into brutal new shapes. With rapping on top."[3] Rolling Stone called them "[n]imble-tongued, beat-fractured L.A. hip-hop spilled over the abrasive crunches, squeals, clangs, slurps, and static of experimental musique concrète."[8]

Discography

Mixtapes

Albums

Extended Plays

Singles

References

  1. ↑ Raymer, Miles (June 13, 2014). "clipping.: CLPPNG". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ Thomas, Fred. "Clipping". Allmusic. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Lester, Paul (February 8, 2013). "New band of the week: Clipping (No 1,448)". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "clipping. on Sub Pop Records". Sub Pop. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  5. ↑ Sherburne, Philip (January 7, 2014). "Clipping: Los Angeles Noise-Rap Crew Crank Out Scientifically Ugly Party Jams". Spin. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
  6. ↑ "midcity - clipping". Bandcamp. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  7. ↑ Cook, Wil (February 6, 2013). "Clipping - 'guns.up' [Track of the Day]". The 405. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
  8. ↑ Weingarten, Christopher. "10 New Artists You Need to Know: March 2014". Rolling Stone. Jann Wenner. Retrieved May 2, 2014.

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