Featured Genre 4: Trip-Hop
 

[size=5]Featured Genre #4 - Trip-Hop[/size]

The term "trip-hop" was coined by the english music press in the early 90s. The sound of trip-hop is well described as "downtempo jazz, funk and soul influenced experimental breakbeat music". Trip-Hop is often very bass heavy. It is generally seen that Massive Attack were one of the first trip-hop groups when they released their debut album in 1991, "Blue Lines". Although Massive Attack are seen as the inventors of trip-hop, other groups such as Portishead, Lamb and the Sneaker Pimps were extremely helpful in popularising it. After Massive Attack, quite a few US trip-hop acts emerged, in the forms of "DJ Shadow", "U.N.K.L.E." and others. However, the bulk of the great trip-hop acts were from places such as Bristol and Manchester, all in England.

Trip-Hop is often one of the styles of music that is blamed for "kiling guitar rock" in England. After Massive Attack, many trip-hop groups began to recieve a lot of mainstream recognition and trip-hop albums began to top indie charts. Groups such as Massive Attack, DJ Shadow, Tricky, Morcheeba and Sneaker Pimps are most responsible for trip-hop reaching a large mainstream, stateside audience. After a while, some rock bands such as Radiohead began to show trip-hop influence with tracks such as "Talk Show Host", "Climbing Up The Walls" and "Airbag". Another contributing factor was Thom Yorke's collaboration with U.N.K.L.E. on the track "Rabbit In Your Headlights".

[B][I]Some major trip-hop artists[/I][/B]

Massive Attack
DJ Shadow
Tricky
Lamb
Morcheeba
Sneaker Pimps
U.N.K.L.E.
Portishead

[B][I]Some definitive trip-hop albums[/I][/B]

Massive Attack - [I]Blue Lines[/I]
Portishead - [I]Dummy[/I]
DJ Shadow - [I]Endtroducing[/I]
U.N.K.L.E. - [I]Psyence Fiction[/I]
Lamb - [I]Lamb[/I]
Tricky - [I]Maxinquaye[/I]
Morcheeba - [I]Big Calm[/I]
Massive Attack - [I]Mezzanine[/I]

[B][I]Some definitive trip-hop songs[/I][/B]

Radiohead - [I]Talk Show Host, Climbing Up The Walls[/I]
Portishead - [I]Glory Box[/I]
U.N.K.L.E. - [I]Rabbit In Your Headlights[/I]
Massive Attack - [I]Teardrop, Inertia Creeps, Safe From Harm, Unfinished Sympathy[/I]
Tricky - [I]Black Steel[/I]
DJ Shadow - [I]Stem/Long Stem, Fixed Income[/I]
Lamb - [I]God Bless, Trans Fatty Acid[/I]
Sneaker Pimps - [I]Sick[/I]

[b]Photo Gallery[/B]

Massive Attack, during the Mezzanine era
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Tricky
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DJ Shadow
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Lamb
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Portishead
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U.N.K.L.E.
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Cool. Good FG:) I'm digging trip-hop a lot these days, especially Zero 7 and Lovage and I'm still trying to find cheap copies of [I]Mezzanine[/I], it's expensive as hell in here.

We had the first FG for months, now we have a new one every few days, geez.

GG, anyway

It's been a week and a half since the last one. meh

wow. now i know what trip hop is. and i realize that i really don't like most of those bands. portishead is allright though

It's because I mentioned Radiohead isn't it? :p

[QUOTE=Happymeal]Cool. Good FG:) I'm digging trip-hop a lot these days, especially Zero 7 and Lovage and I'm still trying to find cheap copies of [I]Mezzanine[/I], it's expensive as hell in here.[/QUOTE]

Where is "here"? At the moment, I can get it for £5, in the HMV sale.

Good article. I'm not so much into trip-hop so far, mainly just DJ Shadow and Massive Attack, though [i]Endtroducing..[/i] and [i]Mezzanine[/i] both rank amongst my favourite albums. I also picked up [i]Blue Lines[/i] during my absence, for something like £4, in that very same sale. I've been enjoying this sale.

Blue Lines is on sale round here too, for 15 bucks (A new cd is like 20-25). I like it but maybe not enough to buy it for that much.

You should get 100th Window by Massive Attack as well. I compare it to Radiohead's Hail To The Thief, nothing groundbreaking like the earlier stuff, just a very, very good album. Plus the female vocals on it are by Sinead O Connor, which is a definite plus.

[QUOTE=Bartender]Where is "here"? At the moment, I can get it for £5, in the HMV sale.[/QUOTE]

Canada. It's $24.99.. on HMV too:(

That's the only thing I don't like about them. Rip you off all the time:mad:

I can get [I]Blue Lines [/I] for $9.99 though.

I loves me some Trip-Hop.

My favourite Trip-Hop guys:
Massive Attack
Portishead
A bunch of Dan the Automator's stuff

Excellent FG, trip-hop is a mighty fine little corner of music.

Nicely done guy. I love every artist that you mentioned. I think. Trip-Hop is king.

LISTEN TO LAMB!!!

I had [i]Endtroducing[/i] before my computer crashed. I need to download it again.

Trip-hop owns

Nice work, I quite like a little Massive Attack every now and again.

[QUOTE=br3ad_man]It's because I mentioned Radiohead isn't it? :p[/QUOTE]

yeah that too. wow. i love how i'm such an elitist douche that everyone on mx knows my favorite and least favorite bands :lol:

:lol:

You're a cool eliteist at least. :)

Trip hop is my favorite genre of music. Me and a drummer chick and a sax player are starting a trip hop band soon :cool: It will pwn unbelievably hard.


~waits for Iai~

ok I just wanna add a few trip-hop artists/songs that I love, that weren't mentioned:

Bjork - [I]All is Full of Love[/I] (the video version, not the album version)
Deltron 3030 - [I]3030[/I]
Lovage - [I]Sex (I'm a)[/I]
Handsome Boy Modelling School - [I]The Truth[/I]
Gorillaz - [I]Tomorrow Comes Today[/I]
Faith No More - [I]Stripsearch[/I]
Prefuse 73 - [I]Storm Returns[/I]

[QUOTE=Kaden]Trip hop is my favorite genre of music. Me and a drummer chick and a sax player are starting a trip hop band soon :cool: It will pwn unbelievably hard.

~waits for Iai~[/QUOTE]

I've been away. :(

Ironically, my girlfriend plays the sax, and I was going to pitch the ideas of a trip-hop band to her. :cool:

Nice FG - I initially thought it seemed a little on the short side, but I would have rambled on for 4 or 5 posts, so that's probably why!

One thing I'd like to add - the roots of trip-hop can be found in [B]De La Soul's 3 Feet High & Rising[/B], and [B]Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique[/B]. I consider them proto-trip-hop, and I'd recommend both to anyone who's even got a passing interest in trip-hop, both for historical awareness, and the fact that they're awesome albums.

^^^
Listen to him, he knows his stuff :thumb:

[QUOTE=Kaden]Trip hop is my favorite genre of music. Me and a drummer chick and a sax player are starting a trip hop band soon :cool: It will pwn unbelievably hard.


~waits for Iai~[/QUOTE]



Wow, man...your music taste has certainly changed since I started noticing you on here...Dream Theater boy!

I want to ask one of my friends to sing some trip-hop with me and my mates for next year's battle of the bands. She has a great voice.

[QUOTE=br3ad_man]:lol:

You're a cool eliteist at least. :)[/QUOTE]

thanks amigo :)

Another similar artist, i dont know if you'd count them as trip hop, you definitely could as its bass drums keys, electric violin and a female singer. I saw them this summer at Move 2004 and i suggest them also

plus the singer is sexy:naughty:

Who?

Venom8888

Very good exlanation bread :thumb:

[QUOTE=br3ad_man]Wow, man...your music taste has certainly changed since I started noticing you on here...Dream Theater boy![/QUOTE]
I like to think of myself as open-minded, Bradley.

I'll bet you do.

[QUOTE=br3ad_man]I'll bet you do.[/QUOTE]
....Bradley.

You're mean to me :(

I'm just listening to Lamb's self-titled album for the first time. It's good stuff, so far.

[QUOTE=br3ad_man]You're mean to me :([/QUOTE]
I've said that same thing to you like 8 times.


Bradley.

Except I'm not mean. The only "mean" thing I've ever said was not to hesitate if you wanted to redo your review of "Downward Spiral". So there.

[QUOTE=br3ad_man]Except I'm not mean. The only "mean" thing I've ever said was not to hesitate if you wanted to redo your review of "Downward Spiral". So there.[/QUOTE]
That was pretty mean though. The only thing I've ever done to you is call you by a misinterpretation of your name.


...Bradley.

I love trip-hop.

I've recently been getting into Portishead and Massive Attack.

^^^
Good work :)

[QUOTE=Kaden]That was pretty mean though. The only thing I've ever done to you is call you by a misinterpretation of your name.


...Bradley.[/QUOTE]

It wasn't intended to be mean :(. What about the time you said you loved me? :(

Good FG :thumb:

I've been listening to Tricky - Maxinquaye a lot recently and it has become my favourite trip-hop album to come out of Bristol.

[QUOTE=br3ad_man]It wasn't intended to be mean :(. What about the time you said you loved me? :([/QUOTE]
:lol: When was that?



On a relevant note, I have a Best Buy gift card (They gave it to me because I returned my copy of Basement on a Hill. The song Little One wouldn't play), so I've been meaning to use it to get Dummy the first chance I get. Maybe tomorrow, who knows?