Today, Tuesday, February 20th, marks the release of a split single featuring Clipping’s “Tipsy” and Cooling Prongs’ “Midnight,” available worldwide from Sub Pop.
Clipping’s “Tipsy” was previously only available as part of the 2020 Save Stereogum, an exclusive ‘00s Covers Comp and crowdfunding campaign for the site’s supporters. Clipping was one of 40 artists asked to record never-before-heard covers of songs from 2000-2009. Clipping says, “J-Kwon’s ‘Tipsy’ is one of the greatest party rap songs of all time. We could never make a beat as hard as the original, so we took our version in another direction — something like if Skinny Puppy had somehow remixed it in the late 1980s.”
“Midnight” by Cooling Prongs (AKA Christopher Fleeger, who collaborated with Clipping on Double Live) is a musique concrète tribute to Ice-T’s classic track of the same name. Fleeger’s process involved recording for many weeks, every night between midnight and 6am, with microphones mounted to the outside of his van, at all the locations mentioned in the lyrics to the original song. Hundreds of hours of audio were edited and arranged to create a field-recording companion to the journey the rapper describes through South Central Los Angeles, from the AMPM location on Vermont, through all of the intersections he names, finally ending at Ice-T’s childhood home, just off Crenshaw.
Clipping has also scheduled a series of UK & European tour dates for 2024, which begin Thursday, April 18th in Tilburg, NL with an appearance at the Roadburn Festival, and run through Thursday, April 25th in Leeds, UK at Project House.
Fri. Apr. 19 - Tilburg, NL - Roadburn Festival Sat. Apr. 20 - Krems an der Donau, AT - Donaufestival Sun. Apr. 21 - Munich, DE - Zirka Mon. Apr. 23 - Koln, DE - Club Volta Wed. Apr. 24 - Brussels, BE - Les Nuits Botanique Thu. Apr. 25 - Leeds, UK- Project House
Clipping recently announced REMXNG, a quartet of EPs featuring remixes of tracks from the band’s Horrorcore-themed albums, There Existed an Addiction to Blood and Visions of Bodies Being Burned. Each EP showcases remixers hand-picked by Clipping to slash, mangle, and brutalize the band’s music into all-new, exquisitely macabre, creations. The full REMXNG series has featured an incredible array of contributors including Loraine James, James Acaster & John Dietrich, Bogdan Raczynzki, Blectum From Blechdom, Cheryl E. Leonard, Lauren Bousfield, Oil Thief, Evischen, TENGGER, Rian Treanor, Baseck, Fire Toolz, ZULI, akeyamasou, David Rothbaum, Ian Little, Rrose, Wobbly, Stazma, Speaker Music, and Thomas Dimuzio.
For the fourth installment of the series, electro-acoustic pioneer Carl Stone leads with “Citadel Bod Doodt,” a composition based around a creaky loop from Clipping’s “She Bad” that evolves into a tangled knot of chopped-up vocals. “A Clipping Story” showcases prolific Kenyan experimentalist Slikback, who edits multiple Clipping songs into a frenetic collage of overlapping rhythms. Oakland’s Lexagon disassembles “Run For Your Life” into bouncy, disjointed loops, and Patric Catani’s “Something Underneath” amplifies the original’s science fictional atmosphere into a heavy cavernous trudge. Berlin duo Schwefelgelb transform “All In Your Head” into dancefloor-ready dark techno, and Paris-based musique concrète composer Aho Ssan processes “Looking Like Meat” into a droning digital smear. REMXNG 2.4 closes with “Down” by Cooling Prongs (frequent Clipping collaborator Christopher Fleeger), which interpolates melodic vocal snippets from multiple songs and weaves them into a demented operatic choir.
Clipping’s REMXNG2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 are available on all DSPs from Sub Pop.
REMXNG 2.4 Tracklisting: 1. Citadel Bod Doodt (Carl Stone Remix) 2. A clipping. Story (Slikbak Remix) 3. Run For Your Life (Lexagon Remix) 4. Something Underneath (Patric Catani Remix) 5. All In Your Head (Schwefelgelb Remix) 6. Looking Like Meat (Aho Ssan Remix) 7. Down (Cooling Prongs Remix)
Clipping’s international touring for the fall of 2022, resumes with 14-date UK and EU run beginning November 11th in Ultrecht, Netherlands at Le Guess Who? Festival and ending November 29th in Aarhus, Denmark at Voxhall.
Fri. Nov. 11 - Utrecht, NL - Le Guess Who? Festival Sat. Nov. 12 - La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH - Bikini Test Mon. Nov. 14 -Brussels, BE - Magasin 4 Tue. Nov. 15 - Prague, CZ - Meet Factory Thu. Nov. 17 - London, UK - Fabric Fri. Nov. 18 - Leeds, UK - Belgrave Music Hall Sun. Nov. 20 - Warsaw, PL - Hydrozagadka pool Tue. Nov. 22 - Paris, FR - Trabendo Wed. Nov. 23 - Rennes, FR - Antipode Club Thu. Nov. 24 - Nantes, FR - Pole Etudient Fri. Nov. 25 - Lyon, FR - Les SUBS Sat. Nov. 26 - Lille, FR - L’Aéronef Mon. Nov. 28 - Copenhagen, DK - VEGA Tue. Nov. 29 - Aarhus, DK - Voxhall
Clipping REMXNG
REMXNG 2.4 Tracklisting: 1. Citadel Bod Doodt (Carl Stone Remix) 2. A clipping. Story (Slikbak Remix) 3. Run For Your Life (Lexagon Remix) 4. Something Underneath (Patric Catani Remix) 5. All In Your Head (Schwefelgelb Remix) 6. Looking Like Meat (Aho Ssan Remix) 7. Down (Cooling Prongs Remix)
REMXNG 2.3 Tracklisting: 1. Attunement (Blectum from Blechdom Remix) 2. He Dead (Stay Alive At All Costs) 3. ‘96 Neve Campbell (Rrose Remix) 4. Blood of the Fang (Wobbly - Not Guilty Remix) 5. Say The Name (Stazma’s Driller Bees Remix) 6. Say the Name [_] Something Underneath (Speaker Music - Longsuffering Remix) 7. Eaten Alive (Thomas Dimuzio Remix)
REMXNG 2.2 Tracklisting: 1. ‘96 Neve Campbell (Rian Treanor Remix) 2. He Is Dead and She is Bad (Party Gator Remix) 3. Run For Your Life (Baseck Remix) 4. Attunement (Fire-Toolz - Atonement Remix) 5. Make Them Dead (ZULI’s Life After Death Remix) 6. Something Underneath (akeyamasou Remix) 7. She Bad (David Rothbaum Remix)
REMXNG 2.1 Tracklisting 1. Part of Dust (“Attunement” Cheryl E. Leonard Remix) 2. Bastards (“Pain Everyday” Lauren Bousfield Remix) 3. He Dead (Oil Thief Remix) 4. 96 Neve Campbell (https://bogdanraczynski.com/clpng-96-remix/)” (Bogdan Raczynski Remix) 5. Sheba (“She Bad” Evicshen Remix) 6. Nothing Is Safe (Loraine James Remix) 7. Say the Name (TENGGER Remix)
On Wednesday, September 21st, 2022, Clipping announced REMXNG, a quartet of EPs featuring remixes of tracks from the band’s Horrorcore-themed albums, There Existed an Addiction to Blood and Visions of Bodies Being Burned. Each EP showcases remixers hand-picked by Clipping to slash, mangle, and brutalize the band’s music into all-new, exquisitely macabre, creations.
REMXNG 2.3 opens with a frenetic, surreal vocal interpretation of “Attunement” by the legendary (and only recently reunited) duo Blectum From Blechdom, followed by and old-school Industrial-inspired “He Dead” by former Duran Duran and Roxy Music producer, Ian Little. Minimal techno experimentalist Rrose’s remix of “‘96 Neve Campbell” features a stuttering, rubbery bounce, and Wobbly (member of Negativland) mangles “Blood of the Fang” into a overstuffed, plunderphonic collage. Stazma’s “Say The Name” is a virtuosic Jungle chop, while Speaker Music’s DeForrest Brown Jr. stretches “Say the Name” and “Something Underneath” into syncopated techno abstraction. The EP closes with a woozy, apocalyptic “Eaten Alive” by Thomas Dimuzio, who also contributed his talents as a mastering artist to the series of EPs.
REMXNG 2.3 is the third of four such EPs, which will be released every Wednesday through October 12, 2022.
Clipping’s international touring for the fall of 2022, resumes with 14-date UK and EU run beginning November 11th in Ultrecht, Netherlands at Le Guess Who? Festival and ending November 29th in Aarhus, Denmark at Voxhall.
Fri. Nov. 11 - Utrecht, NL - Le Guess Who? Festival
Sat. Nov. 12 - La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH - Bikini Test
Last Wednesday, September 21st, 2022, Clipping announced REMXNG, a quartet of EPs featuring remixes of tracks from the band’s Horrorcore-themed albums, There Existed an Addiction to Blood and Visions of Bodies Being Burned. Each EP showcases remixers hand-picked by Clipping to slash, mangle, and brutalize the band’s music into all-new, exquisitely macabre, creations.
REMXNG 2.2 leads with UK producer Rian Treanor’s jagged, stuttering edit of “‘96 Neve Campbell.” Treanor blends underground dance music genres with the techniques of musique concrète, and computer music, slicing the slasher-themed track into a collage of stabbing jump-scares. James Acaster (who happens to also be one of the band’s favorite comedians) collaborated with Deerhoof’s John Diederich on a mash-up of the band’s “She Bad” and “He Dead,” which is followed by a synth freak-out rework of “Run for Your Life” by Baseck (who frequently appears as a turntablist on Clipping albums). Next is Fire-Toolz’s hyperactive neon glitch symphony of “Attunement.” Egyptian producer ZULI gives “Make Them Dead” a crushingly heavy Drum & Bass flip, and akeyamasou’s mysterious “Something Underneath” remix atomizes its source into a dense cloud of IDM haze. The EP closes with a miniature for modular synthesizer and sampler by David Rothbaum—another frequent Clipping collaborator.
REMXNG 2.2 is the second of four such EPs, which will be released every Wednesday through October 12, 2022.
Clipping’s international touring for the fall of 2022, resumes with an appearance at Southern California’s Desert Daze Festival Friday, September 30th. Then from Thursday, November 10th through November 29th, 2022, Clipping will tour the UK and EU again for a 14-date run. Please find a current list of dates below.
Fri. Sep. 30 - Perris, CA - Desert Days Sat. Oct. 01 - San Francisco, CA - Grey Area Fri. Nov. 11 - Utrecht, NL - Le Guess Who? Festival Sat. Nov. 12 - La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH - Bikini Test Mon. Nov. 14 -Brussels, BE - Magasin 4 Tue. Nov. 15 - Prague, CZ - Meet Factory Thu. Nov. 17 - London, UK - Fabric Fri. Nov. 18 - Leeds, UK - Belgrave Music Hall Sun. Nov. 20 - Warsaw, PL - Hydrozagadka Tue. Nov. 22 - Paris, FR - Trabendo Wed. Nov. 23 - Rennes, FR - Antipode Club Thu. Nov. 24 - Nantes, FR - Pole Etudient Fri. Nov. 25 - Lyon, FR - Les SUBS Sat. Nov. 26 - Lille, FR - L’Aéronef Mon. Nov. 28 - Copenhagen, DK - VEGA Tue. Nov. 29 - Aarhus, DK - Voxhall
Recently, four of Clipping’s songs were featured on a new app developed with Modify Music, which is available now on iOS and Android app stores. This is a real-time mixing app, that has each song separated into four “stems” that can be mixed on the fly. Alongside the original stems, the listener will have the option to switch out and mix in alternative stems that Jonathan Snipes produced just for the app. The app can be found here: https://modifymusic.com/artists/clipping/
Clipping REMXNG 2.2
Tracklisting: 1. ‘96 Neve Campbell (Rian Treanor Remix) 2. He Is Dead and She is Bad (Party Gator Remix) 3. Run For Your Life (Baseck Remix) 4. Attunement (Fire-Toolz - Atonement Remix) 5. Make Them Dead (ZULI’s Life After Death Remix) 6. Something Underneath (akeyamasou Remix) 7. She Bad (David Rothbaum Remix)
Just in time for Halloween, Clipping have announced a quartet of EPs featuring remixes of tracks from the band’s Horrorcore-themed albums, There Existed an Addiction to Blood and Visions of Bodies Being Burned. Each EP showcases remixers hand-picked by Clipping to slash, mangle, and brutalize the band’s music into all-new, exquisitely macabre, creations.
REMXNG 2.1 begins with “Part of Dust” by Bay Area composer and field-recordist Cheryl E. Leonard. The piece is ostensibly a remix of Clipping’s collaboration with Pedestrian Deposit, “Attunement,” although it is largely constructed from original recordings by Leonard, including: wind in the attic of Kunstnarhuset Messen in Norway; a flute made of kelp played by Leonard herself; the Golden Gate Bridge howling in the wind; baby northern elephant seals in Point Reyes; a bowed wooden fence, and a metal door played with rocks; Cranes and geese in Staten Island, California; Balloons in a tunnel in Butte, Montana; and a boat ramp in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard.
Next comes “Bastards,” by frequent Clipping collaborator Lauren Bousfield, whose virtuosic scrambling of “Pain Everyday” becomes a cinematic, carnivalesque nightmare. Oil Thief pummels “He Dead” into a pitch-dark industrial trudge, and IDM trailblazer Bogdan Raczynski’s “’96 Neve Campbell (https://bogdanraczynski.com/clpng-96-remix/)” (the official title of which contains a working hyperlink) is a cartoonish, elastic transformation of the source material. “Sheba” is Clipping’s upcoming tour mate Evicshen’s blown-out noise interpretation of “She Bad,” which is followed by a characteristically jittery, off-kilter chop of “Nothing Is Safe” by London producer Loraine James. The EP closes with an ambient performance of “Say The Name” by traveling musical family Tengger that excerpts one melody from the original song’s instrumental outro, and stretches it into an ecstatic, hypnotic loop.
REMXNG 2.1 is the first of four such EPs, which will be released every Wednesday from September 21 through October 12.
Clipping begins its first round of international touring for the fall of 2022, with a short run of shows in the UK and EU beginning this Wednesday, September 21st in Glasgow at SWG3 Warehouse and ending Sunday, September 25th in Brussels at Atelier. Following those shows, Clipping will return to the states for an appearance at Southern California’s Desert Daze Festival Friday, September 30th. Then from Thursday, November 10th through November 29th, 2022, Clipping will tour the UK and EU again for a 14-date run. Please find a current list of dates below.
Wed. Sep. 21 - Glasgow, UK - SWG3 Warehouse Thu. Sep. 22 - Helsinki, FI - Kudos Ninja Sat. Sep. 24 - Riga, LV - Skaņu Mežs Festival (@Hanzas Perons) Sun. Sep. 25 - Liege, BE -KulturA Fri. Sep. 30 - Perris, CA - Desert Days Sat. Oct. 01 - San Francisco, CA - Grey Area Fri. Nov. 11 - Utrecht, NL - Le Guess Who? Festival Sat. Nov. 12 - La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH - Bikini Test Mon. Nov. 14 -Brussels, BE - Magasin 4 Tue. Nov. 15 - Prague, CZ - Meet Factory Thu. Nov. 17 - London, UK - Fabric Fri. Nov. 18 - Leeds, UK - Belgrave Music Hall Sun. Nov. 20 - Warsaw, PL - Hydrozagadka Tue. Nov. 22 - Paris, FR - Trabendo Wed. Nov. 23 - Rennes, FR - Antipode Club Thu. Nov. 24 - Nantes, FR - Pole Etudient Fri. Nov. 25 - Lyon, FR - Les SUBS Sat. Nov. 26 - Lille, FR - L’Aéronef Mon. Nov. 28 - Copenhagen, DK - VEGA Tue. Nov. 29 - Aarhus, DK - Voxhall
Recently, four of Clipping’s songs were featured on a new app developed with Modify Music, which is available now on iOS and Android app stores. This is a real time mixing app, that has each song separated into four “stems” that can be mixed on the fly. Alongside the original stems, the listener will have the option to switch out and mix in alternative stems that Jonathan Snipes produced just for the app. The app can be found here: https://modifymusic.com/artists/clipping/
Clipping REMXNG 2.1
Tracklisting: 1. Part of Dust (Cheryl E. Leonard Remix of “Attunement”) 2. Bastards (Lauren Bousfield Remix of “Pain Everyday”) 3. He Dead (Oil Thief Remix) 4. 96 Neve Campbell (https://bogdanraczynski.com/clpng-96-remix/)” (Bogdan Raczynski Remix) 5. Sheba (“She Bad” Evicshen Remix) 6. Nothing Is Safe (Loraine James Remix) 7. Say the Name (TENGGER Remix)
International Tour Dates September 21st-November 29th, 2022
Today, Friday, July 22nd marks the release of Clipping’s CLBBNG Vol. 1, the first collection of remixes produced by the group, which is available worldwide on all DSPs from Sub Pop.
CLBBNG features four remixes including “Nothing Is Safe,” from There Existed An Addiction To Blood, the group’s horrorcore album of 2019, which has a dance remix, and an instrumental rework (titled “Drop Low”); Meanwhile, remixes of “Get Up” (titled “Get Mine”), and “Dominoes” (titled “Drop That”) from CLPPNG, the group’s Sub Pop debut of 2014, round out the tracklisting.
Clipping has wanted to make a record of dance remixes for some time, and inspiration struck when they performed what has to be the all time tiniest desk concert (see for yourself!) for NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert. Jonathan Snipes elaborated further, “I had come up with the name CLBBNG mostly as a joke when we made the first album for Sub Pop (titled CLPPNG). I made a couple of remixes back then (none of the tracks released in this volume), but some combination of losing interest and getting distracted by other projects meant that we didn’t release them at the time. When we recorded drums with Chukwudi Hodge for “Say the Name” in 2019, we also had him play a four-on-the-floor disco beat over the top of the “Nothing is Safe” instrumental with the idea that someday we’d make a sprawling dark-disco Moroder-esque version of the song. When we were asked to do “Tiny Desk” I thought maybe it was the time to finally make that track. Soon after we were asked to do another virtual performance inside Minecraft, and I thought it would be fun to make more dance remixes and create an entire “CLBBNG” club/rave set. It’s versions of these edits and remixes that have made it on to this, the first CLBBNG EP. I have a deep love and appreciation for dance music, and I relish any excuse to make it myself. It’s a lot of fun to bring those sensibilities to clipping songs, and I’m excited to continue making CLBBNG releases in the future.”
Additionally, four of Clipping’s songs, including the “Nothing Is Safe” remix, are being featured on a new app developed with Modify Music which also launches today on iOS and Android app stores. This is a real time mixing app, that has each song separated into four “stems” that can be mixed on the fly. Alongside the original stems, the listener will have the option to switch out and mix in alternative stems that Jonathan Snipes produced just for the app. The app can be found here: https://modifymusic.com/artists/clipping/
Clipping will kick-off its first round of international touring for the fall of 2022, with a short run of shows in the UK and EU beginning on Wednesday, September 21st in Glasgow at SWG3 Warehouse and ending Sunday, September 25th in Brussels at Atelier. Following those shows, Clipping will return to the states for an appearance at Southern California’s Desert Daze Festival Friday, September 30th through Sunday, October 2nd (performance date TBA)
Then from Thursday, November 10th through November 29th, 2022, Clipping will tour the UK and EU again for a 14-date run. Highlights include a performance and curation duties at the Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands (Nov. 11th), a performance at Fabric London (Nov. 17th), and shows in France (Paris, Lille, Lyon, Rennes, Nantes), Poland (Warsaw), Czech Republic (Prague), Belgium (Brussels), UK (Leeds), Switzerland (La Chaux-de-Fonds), and Denmark (Copenhagen, Aarhus). Please find a current list of dates below.
Wed. Sep. 21 - Glasgow, UK - SWG3 Warehouse
Thu. Sep. 22 - Helsinki, FI - Kudos Ninja
Sat. Sep. 24 - Riga, LV - Skaņu Mežs Festival (@Hanzas Perons)
Sun. Sep. 25 - Brussels, BE - Atelier
Fri. Sep. 30 - Perris, CA - Desert Days
Sat. Oct. 01 - Perris, CA - Desert Days
Sun. Oct. 02 - Perris, CA - Desert Days
Fri. Nov. 11 - Utrecht, NL - Le Guess Who? Festival
Sat. Nov. 12 - La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH - Bikini Test
