REMXNG 2.1

Description

Just in time for Halloween, Clipping have announced a quartet of EPs featuring remixes of tracks from the bands 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 bands 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 Clippings 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-lesund, 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 Raczynskis 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 Clippings upcoming tour mate Evicshens 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 songs instrumental outro, and stretches it into an ecstatic, hypnotic loop.

REMXNG 2.1 is the first of four such EPs.