Listen: clipping. Remix alt-j

The results are staggering...

Each day, the Clash collective Inbox will be peppered with all manner of remixes.

Most are, truth be told, phoned in. Often, remixes are commissioned less as an artistic endeavour but more to create buzz, to keep the conversation flowing.

alt-j clearly, aren't content to go down this route. The band recently invited Sub Pop signed hip hop adventurists clipping. to join them on remix duties, leaving the brief deliberately wide.

So clipping. took a refrain from 'Hunger Of The Pine' and built something entirely new. 'Story 4: Sleeplessly Embracing (a remix by clipping.)' is essentially a brand new track, with the duo supplying deft rhymes and entirely new production.

Yet shades of alt-j still seep through, with 'Story 4: Sleeplessly Embracing (a remix by clipping.)' becoming an intriguing document in its own right.

Check it out now.

Photo Credit: Gabriel Green

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