Playing with the format of the VIP edits—unreleased bootleg remixes circulating at the periphery of an artist’s official discography—the project appropriates seminal grime acapellas, reworked to fit a newly-contextualised framework.

To further emphasise this process, the tracks have been cut on a one-copy-only 10" acetate dubplate, a support that has historicised the practice of bootleg remixing in genres like jungle, drum’n’bass, grime and early dubstep.

UNTITLED (VIP)

SHELL A VERSE (VIP)

ON DIS TING (VIP)

HIT THEN RUN (VIP)

I AM (VIP)

INNA DIS (VIP)

TRAGEDY THOMPSON LIVES AND WORKS IN MILAN.
THEIR PRACTICE ENCOMPASSES SOUND, WRITING AND PERFORMANCE.

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