In a recent Flood Magazine article, clipping break down the non-musical influences of their new record, Dead Channel Sky. My book Dead Precedents gets a mention:
Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future by Roy Christopher:
We started making Dead Channel Sky because we’d made the song “Run It” for a video game that didn’t end up using it. But it wasn’t until I read Roy’s book about the parallel evolutions of hip-hop and cyberpunk fiction that I could wrap my head around creating a whole cyberpunk project. In the book, he draws connections between the two forms’ repurposing of technology, and making art out of the scraps of industrial capitalism (think: computer hacking and turntablism) as two potential visions for the future. I asked Roy to summarize his argument in the press release for the album, so I’d ask you to read it there, rather than have me stumble through it myself.
Still pinching myself…
Here’s the press release I wrote on the Sub Pop site. Cop your copy!
And pick up Dead Precedents already!