Groups Clipping consists of rapper and actor David Digs (Daveed Diggs), which are, among other things, theater awards Tony and music awards Grammy laureate.
British media The Guardian triplets Clipping described it as outstanding, adding that the association group Death Grips takes the stylistics of stecato noise to a new level, and the listener “will either feel excited and purified, or pray for mercy.”
In turn, the magazine Rolling Stone writes about the group: “Clipping has been creating its own provocative and noisy world for some time. Being both talented musicians and obsessed and insatiable researchers of the history of noise music and hip-hop, they create every piece with great precision and strive to embrace all the ways in which hitherto established hip-hop clichés can be undermined. “
Although media closer to pop culture like to emphasize the trio’s relationship with noise music, it is by no means the only form of avant-garde music that has influenced its sound. The band includes electronic musicians and producers Jonathan Snaips (Jonathan Snipes) and William Hatson (William Hutson) inspired by the idea that electroacoustic or “concrete” music methods are not so different from the Clipping The musical design of the songs is not noisy, but cosmically empty, using, for example, a microphone dipped in a glass with ice cubes, a burning piano and environmental recordings as a sample source. Clipping references to the post-war academic avant-garde can also be found in the records (John Cage, John Cage), Fluxus movement (Anne Lockwood, Annea Lockwood), free improvisation (Jeff Parker, Jeff Parker) and chaotic bankruptcy (Big Black). Almost unheard of genre references can often be found in the band’s recordings, such as the combination of reggae vocals with dark ambient music or the contrast of “gangsta rap” to fridge. On the other hand, some of the group’s compositions even sound like purely functional radio songs, but their sound message is deceptive – they used, for example, power electronics or noise music compositions with particularly provocative messages.
Medium Los Angeles Times in an article, it is speculated that the ensemble, dedicated to such specific musical interests, is gaining more recognition thanks to its member, rapper David Digs, who received the most prestigious theater award in the USA in 2016. Tony for participating in a sensationally popular musical Hamilton, and later, along with colleagues, also received Grammy award for the audio publication of this musical. Digs is also a nominated series and film producer and actor Emmy award and received Critic’s Choice Super Awards award for portraying the main character Netflix serial Snowpiercer.
“Digsa ‘s fame may mean that Clipping will reach a new, wider audience that is clearly ready to re – evaluate the role of hip – hop in American culture. [..] Digs himself laughs at how close the band’s brutal, confusing music has come to the global cultural elite, “he said. Los Angeles Times.
Digs’ presence not only gives the group charisma, visibility and verbal virtuosity – Digs often appears on the world’s fastest rapper lists and is called the “fastest rapper on Broadway” – but also provides an additional experimental dimension to its subject matter and lyrics. Clipping lyrics are not presented in the first person (uncharacteristic of hip-hop, the word “I” is never uttered), and textual clichés of this genre are reversed – flirtation related to hip-hop with a dangerous lifestyle, criminal activities, excessive spending and violence is endowed with undisguised despair, fear. Bringing this method of work to the absurd, rap music combines traditional themes in some recordings with science fiction and horror film narratives. Album Splendor & Misery, for example, a science fiction story goes through – the record has even been nominated for the highest science fiction award Hugo Award, where it competed in the same category with the series Game of Thrones and Black Mirror.
Troika album There Existed an Addiction to Blood was included in the magazine The Wire magazine in the list of the best music records of 2019, it was repeated the following year with a record Visions of Bodies Being Burned, when an album included more than one The Wire, but also a newspaper The Guardian. Almost allowing genre misunderstandings, the medium Pitchfork group album Splendor & Misery has included in its list of the best industrial music albums of all time.
Clipping the performance will take place on the second concert evening of the festival – on September 24.
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