Name: The Deep
Brand: Clipping

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SP1226

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Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-11-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0098787122619

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Clipping

Genre GB

Hip Hop

Label GB

Sub Pop

Clipping is an experimental hip-hop group known for their innovative sound and thought-provoking lyrics. Formed in 2009, the trio consists of rapper Daveed Diggs, producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. With a unique blend of industrial noise, glitchy beats, and socially conscious rhymes, Clipping has gained critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base. Their albums tackle themes such as race, identity, and politics with raw intensity and artistic flair. Whether it's through their powerful live performances or boundary-pushing studio recordings, Clipping continues to push the boundaries of what hip-hop can be.

Short for "Subterranean Pop" 

The label was an outgrowth of [a=Bruce Pavitt]'s Olympia, WA based (print) fanzine, which became the well respected cassettezine of the same name. 

After his move to Seattle he ran a music column in the Seattle Rocket also called Sub Pop.

After initial forays into the record label world with a [a=Green River] 7" (not officially on Sub Pop) and the Sub Pop 100 LP, the label exploded onto the indie scene with four influential colored vinyl 7"s which included [a=Mudhoney]'s "Touch Me I'm Sick" which made the year-end top 10 playlist of nearly every music journalist in the world.

Subsequent hyping of the label in the English music press put them on the map, and grunge was born.

Label-Code is 03159; rarely found printed on releases (basically only on releases manufactured/licensed by Warner/WEA Germany)

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Experimental hip-hop group Clipping’s The Deep is a dark sci-fi tale about the underwater-dwelling descendants of African women thrown off slave ships, based on the mythology of Detroit electronic group Drexciya. The song was originally commissioned for a This American Life about Afrofuturism in 2017. The track earned Clipping a nomination for a 2018 Hugo award, and the band constructed a sound installation based on The Deep at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. This release comes on the heels of The Deep, a novella by Rivers Solomon (with Clipping credited as co-authors) inspired by the title track and published by Saga Press. The vinyl include two otherwise-unreleased extra tracks – including Aquacode Databreaks, which features Shabazz Palaces – and the vinyl edition includes instrumental versions of all three tracks.

The Deep

Music GB

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