this is still simultaneously both one of the funniest and one of the tightest things ever made.

god this is super fucking good man. one of my favorite clipping. remixes

I reconfized pretty much every other reference and yet this one sounds so familar and i cant place it

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Darklife

Light Left The Garden

Undo K From Hot - Remnants Of Chris

► Merch:  https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/undo-k-from-hot
► Instagram:  http://instagram.com/undokfromhot
► Bandcamp:  http://undokfromhot.bandcamp.com
► Twitter:  http://twitter.com/undokfromhot
► TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@undokfromhot

Remnants Of Chris

Our new track “Knees On The Ground” might benefit from an explanation. This is the most unguarded I ever intend to be when writing about Clipping.

What had happened was this: our very brief UK/Europe trip got called-off the day before we were supposed to get on a plane to London. Since we didn’t have any other plans, we met up in the studio with an idea to crank out a new track. On our list of songs to finish was one particular piece aimed directly at the club (or, at least, our twisted idea of what clubs should play). But none of us were in the mood for it. Each of us had spent the previous several days following the news of protests in Ferguson, MO. It was the only thing on our minds. We couldn’t bring ourselves to think about anything else, so we decided to direct our fear, our revulsion, our heartbreak into a new track.

The problem was that we’d defined our band — in interviews and to each other — as decidedly-not-an-activist-project. Diggs’s lyrics have been criticized for seeming apolitical, at least in comparison to what many listeners (perhaps rightly) expect to hear from an ‘experimental’ rap group. I have many times said (perhaps naïvely) that our politics lie in our structures, in our formal engagement with the rap genre. We love its conventions, its clichés, and we’re not above them. We see our participation in rap as something resembling an old punk flyer — an out-of-context collage of charged images with an fractured, contradictory, multiple point-of-view. I hope that our more dedicated listeners hear this and understand that we’re not interested in spoon-feeding them a position. At the same time, I’ve always assumed that they pretty much agree with us on most issues anyway. (We have yet to meet the misogynist, homophobic, white supremacist Clipping fan with an MBA and an NRA membership).

So what do we do when all we can think about, all we can feel, is a profound injustice — yet another young unarmed person of color is murdered by a police officer? How does a band, which overtly rejects affect and the emotions, address something that is, for its authors, a deeply felt, deeply affecting topic? Well, we don’t entirely know. But the fact is: there’s more truth in Diggs’s lyrics than we generally let on. “Inside Out” describes a drive-by shooting in Oakland, “Chain” is about three stick-ups. They are presented with a lot of detail and specificity (perhaps the result of personal experience). But at the same time, they represent archetypal scenarios within rap music. One trope we had yet to explore as Clipping was the anti-police rap — the lineage of Public Enemy, NWA and Paris, straight through The Coup, and all the way into the ‘stop snitching’ panic of the early 2000s. “Knees On The Ground” is a paradigmatic white-cop-kills-an-unarmed-black-kid-and-gets-away-with-it tale — a story that happens all the fucking time in the US. What we have learned — from our first hand experience in Oakland in 2009, and from the media coverage of Ferguson in 2014 — is that the second part of this story involves a police response better suited to a war zone than to an American city. Cops think they’re playing Call Of Duty when they’re supposed to be part of a community. If Ferguson were in Iraq, Obama would have sent in an airstrike already.

This is the least obtuse Diggs’s lyrics will ever get. We’re embarrassed by the timeliness of this track. We do not intend to capitalize on what is, undoubtedly, a terrible tragedy. But journalists make think-pieces and we make songs. Writers write what they know, and this is what we know right fucking now.

— William Hutson, Clipping.

Knees On The Ground

I AM SO GODDAMN TIRED OF PEOPLE BREAKING DOWN AND SOBBING TO THIS SONG. 
It ends now.

Great Big World Feat. Christina Aguilera - Say Something

This week's guest composer is B.M.C. Bach (see profile image), which is short for Baroque Master Cylinder, which is the past tense of Breakmaster Cylinder. See? I got jokes, fuck.

Influenced by the likes of @kayfaraday and @tokyomegaplex who are doing awesome thing with (i assume) midi. Maybe trackers. But their composition is serious and every note matters. So that.

Drums are twisted as per the rules accordingly:
Toms pitched, shaker chopped/repitched, windchime chopped into a single hit and dropped low to sound like a triangle, tambourine repitched with the envelope on an lfo and eq'd, snare has a shorter envelope is repitched and really hard compressed, kick has that weird cool pogo effect you can do on fruityloops which is basically a diagonal slope pitching: the front end is high and packed while the end drops low a bit and basically everyone should do this all the time, crashes are time stretched all to hell and occasionally made to sound like a gong.

Early Saturday I could not sleep because of this melody bouncing around my head. 90% of the music here is just that single harp note from @Sixfingerz's sample this week. Bloodstone is in there too. Nice one, Six. 

Added bassoon, flute, and stabs of saw bass for flavor. Features Peter Schickele, Lil Jon and his crew, and Dislotec screaming like a lunatic in his car. The title is accurate, repitching the harp note sample accidentally put this in like A.3666 minor.

Hear everyone's beats here. You will be impressed:https://soundcloud.com/groups/beat-battles-1
Join the fun yourself next week: http://www.stonesthrow.com/messageboard/index.php?showforum=11

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BACH (3/21) Little Prelude In Something Between A and Bb (STBB 416)

Dead Channel Sky

Mood Organ

Dodger

Territorial Pissings

This: https://twitter.com/StephTheBlogger/status/583771973043519488

RT @Stephtheblogger How To Get @brkmstrcylinder To Write A Theme Song For You

Simple Degradation (Plucks 1-13) (with Bitpanic)

Scams (feat. Tia Nomore)

Mirrorshades pt. 2 (feat. Cartel Madras)

Here's Lakshmi beating a piñata and dancing to this track, no shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDEpEzRT64&feature=youtu.be

The second half was written especially for Sean Rameswaram's "STUDIO 360’S SIDESHOW LIVE! LAKSHMI WEARS THE HAT" event, May 27th 2015: http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2015/may/26/studio-360s-sideshow-live-lakshmi-wears-hat/

Oh yeah.

THE VIDEO

The Lakshmi Singh Drop (video in description)

Write This Down Remix Pt. 2 (The Notorious B.I.G, 2Pac & DMX)

a remix of clipping.'s STORY 2!
original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbU9UUwxBxA
download above.
[thank you for listening]

FREE ALBUM HERE!

clipping. - Story 2 (Breakmaster Cylinder Remix)

NEW 3-TRACK EP, OUT IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! 
Sing this all the way down to your family's house, and enjoy every second they aren't regaling you with Deep State Muslim conspiracies.

FREE DOWNLOAD

Raffi - Down By The Bay (BMC mix) feat. Meredith Soleau, Saint A, & 'Racist Aunt' Barbie

All Albums Availble Here: https://breakmastercylinder.bandcamp.com/
beats/themes/scores: http://personbproductions.com
booking: personbproductions@gmail.com

clipping. - Story 2 (Breakmaster Cylinder Remix)

Breakmaster Cylinder

Recent comments

buemito

MC ambatukam / spxcegd

rikardfvs

Eternal Osq

Related tracks