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<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nExperimental hip-hop group Clipping\u2019s<\/a> \u201cThe Deep\u201d 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 \u201cThe Deep\u201d at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. This release comes on the heels of the November 5th release 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 and digital versions include two otherwise-unreleased extra tracks \u2013 including \u201cAquacode Databreaks,\u201d which features Shabazz Palaces<\/a> \u2013 and the vinyl edition includes instrumental versions of all three tracks.<\/p>\n Taken from The Deep, a 12\u2033 release inspired by the afrofuturist mythology of Drexciya.<\/p>\n Sub Pop\u2019s foremost experimental hip hop collectives, Clipping. and Shabazz Palaces, have teamed up for a release inspired by Detroit electro icons Drexciya.<\/p>\n \u2018Aquacode Databreaks\u2019, which really could be the title of a Neptune\u2019s Lair bonus track, is taken from The Deep, a 12\u2033 release featuring three tracks inspired by the afrofuturist mythology created by James Stinson and Gerald Donald.<\/p>\n News I By Henry Bruce-JonesI 05.11.19Clipping. and Shabazz Palaces dive into Drexciyan lore on \u2018Aquacode Databreaks\u2019Aquacode Databreaks’ Taken from The Deep, a 12\u2033 release inspired by the afrofuturist mythology of Drexciya.<\/p>\n Sub Pop\u2019s foremost experimental hip hop collectives, Clipping. and Shabazz Palaces, have teamed up for a release inspired by Detroit electro icons Drexciya.<\/p>\n \u2018Aquacode Databreaks\u2019, which really could be the title of a Neptune\u2019s Lair bonus track, is taken from The Deep, a 12\u2033 release featuring three tracks inspired by the afrofuturist mythology created by James Stinson and Gerald Donald. Clipping.\u2019s track \u2018The Deep\u2019, which was commissioned for a This American Life episode in 2017 and from which the 12\u2033 takes its name, follows this same mythology. \u2018Aquacode Databreaks\u2019 and a third track, \u2018Drownt\u2019, make up the rest of the release, which follows Clipping.\u2019s horrorcore-influenced album There Existed an Addiction to Blood.<\/p>\n \u2018Aquacode Databreaks\u2019 is out now. The Deep arrives on November 29, on Sub Pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Experimental hip-hop group Clipping\u2019s \u201cThe Deep\u201d 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4096],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[8459,8471,8457,8461,8470,8469,8466,8465,8467,8468,8458,8456,8454,8475,8464,8460,8473,8463,8455,8462],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46396"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=46396"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=46396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPhoto by: Cristina Bercovitz<\/p>\n
\nAccording to Stinson and Donald, \u2018Drexciya\u2019 was an underwater country founded by the water-breathing, unborn children of pregnant African women thrown overboard while crossing the Atlantic on slave ships.<\/p>\n