The pot lid did not sound the best way we wished. “What about our Webby?” I urged. The award statue’s metallic spring had simply the correct amount of wobble — a journey cymbal with a drip like Dalí. What you are about to see has by no means been tried on the Tiny Desk earlier than: small, MIDI-triggered robots strike and vibrate glass bottles, espresso mugs, plastic wrap and a pizza field to make futuristic music out of the current’s refuse and garbage. What band moreover clipping. might pull this off?
For greater than 15 years, clipping. has made its title from the deconstruction and celebration of hip-hop. This live performance takes that philosophy actually: Producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson spent months digging by way of thrift shops to search out the appropriate clinks, clangs and clongs that would reshape their hypnotic melodies and serrating beats. A sturdy cardboard field turns into the kick drum. A sequence bouncing off aluminum foil, the hi-hat. A panoply of glasses, bottles and mugs, the synths. Harmonium, piano and fretless bass fill out the sides. Child Koala, a turntablist whose distinctive fashion little doubt has had an affect on clipping., company on “Evening of Heaven” and “Work Work.”
This set, that includes songs that span 2014’s CLPPNG to 2025’s Useless Channel Sky, exemplifies the concept one thing thrilling and exquisite will be created from the noise and particles of on a regular basis life. Daveed Diggs, eternally recreation to exquisitely rap over no matter inventive chaos bursts from his cohorts, sums up the method completely: “Thank y’all for this chance to do needlessly difficult s***.”
SET LIST
- “Nothing is Secure”
- “True Believer”
- “Code”
- “Dodger”
- “Evening of Heaven”
- “Work Work”
MUSICIANS
- Daveed Diggs: vocals
- Jonathan Snipes: electronics, harmonium, melodica, desk of nonsense
- William Hutson: percussion, loon name, desk of nonsense
- Sharon Udoh: vocals, piano
- David Rothbaum: bass
- Child Koala: turntables
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Lars Gotrich
- Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Kara Body, Sofia Seidel
- Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
- Manufacturing Assistant: Dhanika Pineda
- Copy Editor: Daoud Tyler-Ameen
- Photographer: Maansi Srivastava
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Govt Director: Sonali Mehta
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton
