As the Hardcore era began to peter out in 1992, Richard Russell delivered one of the rave era’s defining remixes – Kicks Like A Mule’s 1992 version of Awesome 3’s “Don’t Go”. Earlier this year, anarchist Punk icons Crass invited Russell to re-work one of their classics, resulting in the acclaimed 2020 RLR remix of “They’ve Got A Bomb”, a song originally released on the Feeding Of The 5000 LP in 1978. Russell has always been a believer in the power of remix culture. Having poured his heart and soul into producing Gil Scott-Heron’s 2010 opus I’m New Here, Russell “let go” and handed the work over to a then more or less unknown Jamie Smith aka Jamie xx to dismantle and remix into We’re New Here. Ten years later he repeated the process, inviting Chicago jazz innovator Makaya McCraven to re-re interpret the album to create We’re New Again. Even before Richard had completed his most recent Everything Is Recorded album, FRIDAY FOREVER, he knew he wanted to initiate a remix collaboration with Bristol’s Hugh Pescod… aka CLIPZ.
Featuring vocals from Galway’s Maria Somerville and Staten Island’s Infinite Coles, CLIPZ‘s drum and bass reappraisal of Everything Is Recorded’s “This World” is the latest in a run of incredible remixes from the Bristol pioneer who rebooted his CLIPZ moniker in 2019 after a decade long hiatus (while enjoying huge success under his Redlight alias in the meantime). CLIPZ’s bootleg of Koffee’s “Toast”, his remix of Disclosure’s “ENERGY” and his own 2020 collaboration with Ms Banks, Ms Dynamite and Jaykae on “Again” have been some of the biggest tracks to explode out of the underground over the last year. His rework of “This World” is set to do the same, and is already big with drum and bass don Jumpin’ Jack Frost – the first DJ to get hold of a dubplate – who says “This record reflects the times we live in. Soooo edgy and industrial but so classic”
Listen to “This World (CLIPZ remix) featuring Maria Somerville and Infinite Coles” HERE
“This World (CLIPZ remix)” is the first ever official remix of any song by Everything Is Recorded, whose second album FRIDAY FOREVER was released in April via XL Recordings to widespread acclaim. A collaborative artist project helmed by Russell, the album is an investigation into the universality of the Friday night experience. It’s the follow up to his eponymous debut album which was released in 2018 and went on to be nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.
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