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Trip hop may have originated in the mid-1980s in Bristol, England, during a time when American hip hop started to gain increasing popularity there along with the then exploding popularity of the house music and dance scene. Although, the term, ‘trip hop’ was coined first by Andy Pemberton, a music journalist writing for Mixmag, in June 1994 to describe (American) DJ Shadow’s “In/Flux” single.
Massive Attack’s first album Blue Lines was released in 1991 to huge success in the UK. Blue Lines was seen widely as the first major manifestation of a uniquely British hip hop movement, but the album’s hit single “Unfinished Sympathy” and several other tracks, while their rhythms were largely sample-based, were not seen as hip hop songs in any conventional sense.
The term trip hop was coined in 1994, but not in reference to anything on the Massive Attack albums. In the June 1994 issue of UK magazine Mixmag, music journalist Andy Pemberton used it to describe the hip hop instrumental “In/Flux”, a 1993 single by San Francisco’s DJ Shadow, and other similar tracks released on the Mo’ Wax label and being played in London clubs at the time.
After the success of Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky albums in 1994 and 1995, a new generation of trip hop artists emerged with a more standardized sound.. Notable “post-trip-hop” artists include Morcheeba, Sneaker Pimps, Alpha, Mudville and Cibo Matto. They integrated trip hop with other genres – including ambient, R&B, breakbeat, drum ‘n’ bass, acid jazz, and new age.
Common musical aesthetics include a bass-heavy drumbeat, often emulating the slowed breakbeat samples typical of hip hop in the 1990s. Vocals in trip hop are often female and feature characteristics of various singing styles including R&B, jazz and rock. The female-dominant vocals of trip hop may be partially attributable to the influence of genres such as jazz and early R&B in which female vocalists were more common. However, there are notable exceptions; Massive Attack has collaborated with male and female singers. Tricky often features vocally in his own productions and Chris Corner now provides the vocals for Sneaker Pimps.
Trip hop is also known for its melancholy and surreal aesthetics. Trip hop tracks often sample Rhodes pianos, saxophones, trumpets, and flutes. Trip hop differs from hip hop in theme and overall tone. Instead of gangsta rap with its hard-hitting lyrics, trip hop offers a more aural atmospherics with instrumental hip hop, turntable scratching, and breakbeat rhythms. Trip hop production is historically lo-fi, relying on analogue recording equipment and instrumentation, although more traditional instruments such as electric guitars and drum kits are common features. Portishead, for example, record their material to old tape from real instruments, and then sample their recordings, rather than recording their instruments directly to a track. They also tend to put their drums through considerable compression.
Regarded in some ways as a 90s update of fusion, trip hop may be said to ‘transcend’ the hardcore rap styles and lyrics with atmospheric overtones to create a more mellow tempo that has less to do with black American urbanite attitude and more to do with a middle-class British impression of hip hop. As Simon Reynolds put it, “trip hop is merely a form of gentrification.”
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PLAYLIST SPOTIFY
20 YEARS OF TRIP-HOP (1991-2011)
Author : Soundofus.com (by Zullu B)
Number of tracks : 110
Time : 8 hours
Year : 2011
Playlist Tracks Listing
001. Nightmares On Wax – Nights Interlude
002. Massive Attack – Safe From Harm
003. Moby – Go
004. Stereo MC’s – Two Horse Town
005. 9 Lazy 9 – Electric Lazyland
006. Sade – Feel No Pain
007. DJ Shadow – In / Flux
008. Tricky – Aftermath - Version 1
009. Us3 – Tukka Yoot’s Riddim
010. Coldcut – Autumn Leaves
011. Bass Cube – Faraway Bass
012. One Dove – Breakdown - Radio Mix
013. Red Snapper feat. Beth Orton – Snapper
014. Portishead – Strangers
015. Urban Species – Listen
016. DJ Cam – Mad Blunted Jazz
017. DJ Food – Turtle Soup
018. Funki Porcini – It’s A Long Road
019. Nightmares On Wax – Rise
020. The Herbaliser – Wrong Place
021. Moloko – I Can’t Help Myself
022. Garbage – Queer
023. Tek 9 – We’re Gettin’ Down
024. Morcheeba – Trigger Hippie
025. Nicolette – Song For Europe
026. Neneh Cherry – Woman
027. DJ Shadow – Midnight In A Perfect World
028. Lamb – Lusty
029. Hooverphonic – 2 Wicky
030. Dave Clarke – Splendour
031. Koop – Jellyfishes
032. Cibo Matto – Sugar Water
033. Portishead – Undenied
034. Sofa Surfers – Sofa Rockers
035. Plaid feat. Bjork – Lilith
036. The Herbaliser – Another Mother
037. DJ Cam – Success
038. Blue Boy – Remember Me
039. Depeche Mode – Useless
040. Amon Tobin – Easy Muffin
041. Ambisonic – Helicopter Kinda Girl
042. Air – All I Need
043. Massive Attack – Black Milk
044. UNKLE – Be There
045. Esthero – Lounge
046. Najwajean – I have not blood
047. Mr. Scruff – Fish
048. Aim – Sail
049. Moby – Porcelain
050. Luke Vibert – Slipped Disc
051. Tricky – Contradictive
052. Sneaker Pimps – Ten to Twenty
053. Death In Vegas – Soul Auctioneer
054. Silent Poets – Get ready
055. Gus Gus – Ladyshave
056. Anthea – Can’t Be You
057. Groove Armada – At The River
058. Mandalay – Like Her
059. Pomegranate – Staring At The Skies
060. Laika – Badtimes
061. Bonobo – Shadow Tricks
062. Thievery Corporation – Shadows Of Ourselves
063. Yonderboi – No Answer From Petrogard
064. Four Tet – Everything Is Alright
065. Waldeck – Floater
066. The Cinematic Orchestra – Horizon
067. Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood
068. Daft Punk – Something About Us
069. The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist
070. DJ Krush – On the Dub-ble
071. Zero 7 – In The Waiting Line
072. Morcheeba – Sao Paulo
073. Telepopmusik – Smile
074. Lemon Jelly – Experiment Number Six
075. Cujo – Cat People
076. TM Juke – Knee Deep - Feat. Alice Russell & Jim Oxborough
077. Mint Royale – Miles And Miles
078. Ammoncontact – Stereo-X 5:15 PT 1
079. Treva Whateva – Bouncing Bomb
080. Hint – Actory
081. Quantic – Transatlantic
082. Karmacoda – Firefly
083. Moon – Know
084. Beauty’s Confusion – Moments Like These
085. Flunk – Play
086. Emiliana Torrini – Sunny Road
087. Wax Tailor – Ungodly Fruit
088. Kid Loco – Flyin’ on 747
089. Nicolas Jaar – Keep Me There
090. Chinese Man – Eight Y Cinco
091. Waldeck – Why Did We Fire The Gun?
092. Alphawezen – Rain
093. USCHI – Out Of My Life
094. Portishead – Hunter
095. Stateless – Bloodstream
096. SiSe – My Sol
097. Urselle – I Will Try
098. DJ Vadim – Black Is The Night feat. Katherin DeBoer
099. Thievery Corporation – Sweet Tides
100. General Elektriks – Raid The Radio
101. Martina Topley Bird – Baby Blue
102. Archive – You Make Me Feel
103. Bonobo – Eyesdown
104. Belleruche – You Me Us Them
105. Tricky – Come To Me
106. Massive Attack – Psyche
107. Zero 7 – Futures
108. Nathaniel Merriweather – Stroker Ace
109. Dutch Rhythm Combo – Curacao
110. BareFeetCats – She’s Getting Old
