Clipping - Tipsy B/w Midnight - 7-INCH SINGLE [7 inch Vinyl Disc]

Clipping. - Deep [12-INCH SINGLE] Explicit date 11/29/2019

Because of their mix of hellified gangster S**t and progressive compositions, I once jokingly called Clipping InchDeathrow Tull.Inch Well, it's not a joke anymore. While Clipping's last few projects have been record-long concepts like classic prog rock, their cyberpunk-infused new album Dead Channel Sky is mixtape-like, a carefully curated collection in which every track is a love letter to a possible present. It sounds crisp and classic at the same time. When something strikes us as retrospective and futuristic at the same time, it's a reminder of how slipshod our present moment truly is. Juxtaposing high-tech, corporate command-and-control systems (the InchcyberInch) with the lo-fi, D.I.Y. underground (the InchpunkInch), cyberpunk proper starts in 1982 and ends in 1999, from Blade Runner to The Matrix. Concurrently, hip-hop matured, went through it's Golden Era, then melted into further forms it went from from Fab 5 Freddy to Public Enemy to Missy Elliott. While other genres flirted with it, hip-hop was fickle and fey. Rap and rock birthed mutant offspring maligned by most, and hip-hop's relations with electronica rarely fared any better.What if someone explicitly merged hip-hop and cyberpunk - those twin suns of the '80s and '90s - into one set and sound? After all, both movements are the result of hacking the haunted leftovers of a war-torn culture that's long since moved on.On Dead Channel Sky, Clipping texture-map the twin histories of hip-hop and cyberpunk onto an alternate present where Rammellzee and Bambaataa are the superheroes of old; where Cybotron and Mantronix are the reigning legends; where Egyptian Lover and Freestyle are debated endlessly, and Ultramag and Public Enemy are the undeniable forefathers; where the lost movements of 1980s and the 1990s are still happening rave, trip-hop, hip-house, acid house, drum & bass, big beat-the detritus of a dif

Details 1. Long Way Away (Intro) 2. The Breach 3. All Black 4. I'interlude 01 (Freestyle) 5. Wake Up 6. Long Way Away 7. Interlude 02 (Numbers) 8. True Believer 9. Long Way Away (Instrumental) 10. Air 'Em Out 11. Interlude 03 (Freestyle) 12. Break the Glass 13. Story 5 14. Baby Don't Sleep 15. A Better Place