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Trip hop tracks often incorporate Rhodes pianos, saxophones, trumpets, flutes, and may employ unconventional instruments such as the theremin and Mellotron. Trip hop differs from hip hop in theme and overall tone.
- Smoke City, Flying Away
- Dj Krush, Krush
- Nightmares on Wax, Smokers Delight
- Hooverphonic, A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular
- Goldfrapp, Felt Mountain
- Attica Blues, Attica Blues
- Kid Loco, A Grand Love Story
- Dj Cam, Substances
- David Holmes, Let’s Get Killed
- Mono, Formica Blues
What the music press originally termed “trip-hop” always had a loosely defined set of signifiers: sample manipulation, seraphic female vocals, a tasteful fusion of border-crossing influences that hark back to the genre’s genesis in the multi-cultural milieu of Bristol. Smoke City puts a samba twist on the genre, singer Nina Miranda peppering the be...
While visiting a friend at Berklee College of Music in the late ’90s, I heard what sounded like an alien breakbeat coming from a dorm room down the hall. I peeked in at the girl sitting on the floor in the dark and asked what she was listening to. “DJ Krush,” she replied and coolly offered me the blunt pinched between her fingers. Back in New York,...
On Smokers Delight, Nightmares on Wax’s most trip-hop-infused effort, Leeds producer George Evelyn proffers comedown music for the bleary-eyed morning after. A sample from Quincy Jones’s “Summer in the City,” compressed into the periphery of “Nights Introlude”—a loose rewrite of his debut’s “Nights Interlude,” and the impetus for 1995’s Smokers Del...
By the time that Hooverphonic’s “Renaissance Affair” was licensed for a Volkswagon Beetle commercial in the year 2000, the Belgian band had already shaken up its lineup and pivoted away from the more recognizable elements of trip-hop and toward a broader, more mainstream indie- and electronic-pop sound. Even their 1996 debut, A New Stereophonic Spe...
Released in 2000, Goldfrapp’s debut was either a signpost of trip-hop’s impending second wave or the last masterpiece to come out of a golden era that began a decade earlier. Sadly, it seems it was closer to the latter, signaling the end of the genre’s creative peak. But oh what a lofty peak Felt Mountain was. Namesake Alison Goldfrapp’s voice is a...
Named after Archie Shepp’s 1972 big-band album, Attica Blues came about after Mo’ Wax founder James Lavelle signed Charlie Park, an up-and-coming DJ who didn’t yet have an original song to his name. Park soon joined forces with producer Tony Nwachuku and singer Roba El-Essawy to explore influences such as East Coast hip-hop, classic jazz, and the r...
Among Gallic retro-futurists, Air’s Moon Safari has always gotten the most love, but Kid Loco’s A Grand Love Story not only predates that album’s release by two months, it’s every bit as lush and heady. “A Grand Love Theme” establishes the gorgeous idylls to come, with sweeping strings soaked in reverb and ringing guitar lines that flicker like dis...
The opening track of DJ Cam’s 1996 album Substances, “Friends and Enemies,” begins with a subterranean synth drone and a sample from Gang Starr’s “Mass Appeal,” making evident the French producer’s fundamentally hip-hop-driven approach to electronic music. Though some of its BPMs are blistering compared to the songs on, say, Portishead’s Dummy or M...
If DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing….. is the serious cratedigger’s ne plus ultra, then David Holmes’s Let’s Get Killed is its bouncy, playful corollary. Unlike the California-born Shadow, Holmes provides a fascinated outsider’s take on America. From his first visit to New York City at 17 came the inspiration for the majority of these 13 tracks. “Listen” s...
British duo Mono’s Formica Blues might, upon first listen, feel like a minor entry in the trip-hop pantheon. But producer Mark Virgo—a classically trained musician with a professional pedigree that includes collaborations with Nellee Hooper, Massive Attack, and Björk—masterfully merged Portishead’s penchant for jazz and soundtrack samples with the ...
Aug 18, 2021 · Trip-hop’s gloomy vocals, downbeat elements, and wistful jazzy sounds set it apart from the genres that inspire it. Originating in the United Kingdom, the subgenre of trip-hop is a blend of several musical styles, including acid jazz, hip-hop, reggae, and electronica.
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- Tricky. Maxinquaye. (Island, 1995) This is the one, really. Tricky named his debut solo album after his mother, Maxine Quaye, and that should already indicate just how personal the record is.
- Portishead. Dummy. (Go! Beat, 1994) Portishead’s 1994 debut was soaked in the same DIY, melting pot approach that typified much of Bristol’s output at the time.
- DJ Shadow. Endtroducing. (Mo’ Wax, 1996) DJ Shadow’s first album for Mo’ Wax is the kind of debut that places the bar so high in its mastery of a new musical vocabulary that even its creator can never hope to better it, forever living beneath the weight of what he’s accomplished.
- Massive Attack. Blue Lines. (Island, 1991) In a 1998 feature for The New York Times, Guy Garcia posited Blue Lines as the blueprint for trip-hop, an argument that holds some weight if you consider that parts of the album were as old as the days of The Wild Bunch, from which the trio emerged.
Trip-hop, genre of atmospheric down-tempo music, influenced by movie sound tracks, 1970s funk, and cool jazz and usually created using samples. Coined by the British dance magazine Mixmag but rejected by many of its purported practitioners, trip-hop originated in Bristol, Eng., a West Country port.
Feb 22, 2023 · Trip-hop emerged in the 1990s as a leading force of downtempo electronic music. Originating largely in Bristol in the early 1990s, trip-hop has been described as a psychedelic mix of hip-hop and electronica, with slower tempos and an atmospheric style.
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