Trip Hop Music
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olson_jr
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I do not think I would put that in my Trip Hop collection, Alternative Dance Rock maybe? It sure was a fun record and quite the departure from the Talking Heads music of the time. Got played often at parties along with Soft Cell, Was Not Was, B52's, etc.
Who needs to think when your feet just go?
Yeah, it doesn't really fall into a genre, I've seen it described as "post-disco". Sorry to be off-topic.
FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes
Great thread. Looking over the bands and artists mentioned thusfar I feel like I'm home.
The genre thing is kinda crazy. Many bands I like have their style described as trip hop, yet if I try and search out music by genre using trip hop I almost always come up with something I hate. Go figure. It all seems so subjective. Other genres I've heard attached to what I like: ambient, lounge, downtempo, chill .
I do believe what brought me here is a chance stumbling upon Zero 7 about 10 years ago. It's one of those bands that I instantly liked, and passing time hasn't really dulled my liking of them. And it's been fun to branch out and explore some of the individual members of the band, specifically Sia Furler, Sophie Barker, and Tina Dico.... all wonderful. Additionally , even though I'm not really much of a youtube kind of guy, there's some great vids out there of Zero 7 live, and some of the KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic videos of the band and individual artists (Sia and Tina) are very basic, raw, and just plain kick ass via their honesty. Sophie Barker on the Bing Lounge vids is worthwhile too. There's many more and more keep appearing periodically.
So recapping what I see here so far: Thievery Corp, Morcheeba, Sneaker Pimps, Supreme Beings of Leisure, FC Kahuna.... I'm with you.
The others I'll definitely have to check out.
I'll toss in a couple artists/tracks here:
Ilya Malyuev - Sunshine Flowers
Ulrich Schnauss - Wherever you are
Ulrich Schnauss - Between us and them
A couple CDs I -really- enjoy. New World Ambient 01 and 02. Various artists including Gaudi, Alcyone,Yu, Ishq, Kaya Project, Hibernation, Tripswitch. Mere Mortals, Drift, Spiral system. Nice .....
The genre thing is kinda crazy. Many bands I like have their style described as trip hop, yet if I try and search out music by genre using trip hop I almost always come up with something I hate. Go figure. It all seems so subjective. Other genres I've heard attached to what I like: ambient, lounge, downtempo, chill .
I do believe what brought me here is a chance stumbling upon Zero 7 about 10 years ago. It's one of those bands that I instantly liked, and passing time hasn't really dulled my liking of them. And it's been fun to branch out and explore some of the individual members of the band, specifically Sia Furler, Sophie Barker, and Tina Dico.... all wonderful. Additionally , even though I'm not really much of a youtube kind of guy, there's some great vids out there of Zero 7 live, and some of the KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic videos of the band and individual artists (Sia and Tina) are very basic, raw, and just plain kick ass via their honesty. Sophie Barker on the Bing Lounge vids is worthwhile too. There's many more and more keep appearing periodically.
So recapping what I see here so far: Thievery Corp, Morcheeba, Sneaker Pimps, Supreme Beings of Leisure, FC Kahuna.... I'm with you.
The others I'll definitely have to check out.
I'll toss in a couple artists/tracks here:
Ilya Malyuev - Sunshine Flowers
Ulrich Schnauss - Wherever you are
Ulrich Schnauss - Between us and them
A couple CDs I -really- enjoy. New World Ambient 01 and 02. Various artists including Gaudi, Alcyone,Yu, Ishq, Kaya Project, Hibernation, Tripswitch. Mere Mortals, Drift, Spiral system. Nice .....
mars_volta
Super Member
+1 Morcheeba, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Massive Attack
Hooverphonic
Gorillaz
Howie B (great videos)
Roni Size maybe
DJ Shadow Midnight
Hooverphonic
Gorillaz
Howie B (great videos)
Roni Size maybe
DJ Shadow Midnight
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neevo
Super Member
Ouch 
Pretty sure saying Morcheba and Gorillaz are more "trip hop" than the precursor to the Wu Tang Clan shows my view on trip hop is off everyone else's here. Despite these all being great albums (my compass is pointing a little further in the other direction) and the fact I acknowledge the albums are also represent a golden age of trip hop.
I think my view on trip hop is driven by my introduction in to Niggamortis and then down the Portishead, Tricky etc path. Not sure I would call Wu Tang "jumped up rap", as I think their role in Rap has been well regarded (whether you like rap or not) and the album I called out certainly was exploring a different sound to the other rap that was around (gangsta). I'm interested in why Roni Size is considered trip hop too, as a stalwart of the UK D&B scene I would have put him in that bucket probably, although he too explored a musical side of that genre too (although I'm not up with his back catalogue too much).
With that in mind my recommendation would be Tricky - Maxinquaye
Edit: googling revealed my definition is off. I'm in the wrong on that front. I still stand by that Gravediggaz album though, I thinks it's great music.
Pretty sure saying Morcheba and Gorillaz are more "trip hop" than the precursor to the Wu Tang Clan shows my view on trip hop is off everyone else's here. Despite these all being great albums (my compass is pointing a little further in the other direction) and the fact I acknowledge the albums are also represent a golden age of trip hop.
I think my view on trip hop is driven by my introduction in to Niggamortis and then down the Portishead, Tricky etc path. Not sure I would call Wu Tang "jumped up rap", as I think their role in Rap has been well regarded (whether you like rap or not) and the album I called out certainly was exploring a different sound to the other rap that was around (gangsta). I'm interested in why Roni Size is considered trip hop too, as a stalwart of the UK D&B scene I would have put him in that bucket probably, although he too explored a musical side of that genre too (although I'm not up with his back catalogue too much).
With that in mind my recommendation would be Tricky - Maxinquaye
Edit: googling revealed my definition is off. I'm in the wrong on that front. I still stand by that Gravediggaz album though, I thinks it's great music.
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I-Monster - Daydream in Blue
Sorry - I didn't mean to be unwelcoming. Here's some psychedelic soul but the brother calls it hip hop -Ouch
Pretty sure saying Morcheba and Gorillaz are more "trip hop" than the precursor to the Wu Tang Clan shows my view on trip hop is off everyone else's here. Despite these all being great albums (my compass is pointing a little further in the other direction) and the fact I acknowledge the albums are also represent a golden age of trip hop.
qdrone
Music is my mistress
A Japanese female singer Nanaco has put out a couple of great hip hop offerings. Got hip to her by accident when I bought her cd in an assorted bin for 99 cents because of the cover. I found another one on amazon on the cheap and dug it too.
Just looked on Amazon and both of these cd's are over 100.00. That's insane.
On ebay sealed Luminous Love in 23 and Love Is the Drug are around 5.00 dollars,those are the 2 I have.
Just looked on Amazon and both of these cd's are over 100.00. That's insane.
On ebay sealed Luminous Love in 23 and Love Is the Drug are around 5.00 dollars,those are the 2 I have.
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neevo
Super Member
No offense taken. If anything I've learnt that I didn't actually know what trip hop was and some quick wiki taught me something I didn't know.
Got a bunch of the Cafe Del Mar tracks, Massive Attack,
tho I tend to head more towards ambient-chill bands like
Banco de Gaia (Toby Marks) and System 7 (Steve Hillage)
- not sure if they fit the def ...
tho I tend to head more towards ambient-chill bands like
Banco de Gaia (Toby Marks) and System 7 (Steve Hillage)
- not sure if they fit the def ...
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Portishead Live at Roseland is one of my favorite albums, period.
Trip hop or trip hop adjacent?
