How about Trip Hop?
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Topic: How about Trip Hop?
Posted By: David_D
Subject: How about Trip Hop?
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 11:07
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Hip Hop don't use to be my cup of tea, but I've enjoyed over many years quite a lot some Trip Hop albums, which are Massive Attack (UK) Mezzanine (1998) Moloko (UK) Do You Like My Tight Sweater (1995) Portishead (UK) Roseland NYC Live (1998) Unkle (UK) Psyence Fiction (1998) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 11:43
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Happy to see some trip hop discussion. I love lots of trip hop and albums with a trip hop influence or element. It's really only in quite recent years that I got into it. I was influenced by listening to a 90s surreal dark comedy meets music show (Blue Jam) on a podcast app. Two of my featured favourites were Portishead and Massive Attack's "Teardrop" (the latter also leading me to fall in love with Cocteau Twins due to Elizabeth Fraser's contribution). When I came across this youtube video it really had an impact: I like all of the albums in David's list, and would add Portishead's Dummy (1994) and Portishead (1997) (and I adore Third but it is less trip hop). And I would add Laika's Sounds of the Satellites (1997), Morcheeba's Big Calm (1998), Ulver's Perdition City (2000), Massive Attack's Blue Lines (1991), Red Snapper's Making Bones (1998)... Some trip hop related music I love is Boards of Canada (Music Has the Right to Children from 1998 is awesome), Portishead's Third (2008 as mentioned), Bjork's Homogenic (1997) and Post (1995)... |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 12:01
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I've got ten favorites from back in the day: Massive Attack - Mezzanine 1998 Portishead - Dummy 1994 Earthling - Radar 1995 Tricky - Maxinquaye 1995 Portishead - Portishead 1997 Bowery Electric - Beat 1996 (US) UNKLE - Psyence Fiction 1998 Lamb - Lamb 1996 Moloko - Do You Like My Tight Sweater? 1995 Massive Attack - Protection 1994 Lamb - Fear of Fours 1999 |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 12:10
| ^ I forgot to mention Lamb's self-titled. It would have made my list too. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 12:35
That may actually but my favorite of theirs, but I don't think of it as Trip-Hop - as you pretty much stated too. |
Logan wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 12:52
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^ I love Third and it may be my favourite too. While I would not describe it as Trip hop, related I would, but it is an album that I would recommend to, and want to rap about with, those into early Portishead and I still hear Trip hop in it. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 13:12
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As an album that I don't recall getting any attention from these forums but me, I want to highlight Laika's Sounds of the Satellites. Not to be confused with Dear Laika which I have mentioned various times. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 13:54
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Here's a small sample from Moloko's Tight Sweater. It ain't horror Prog but surely some killa bunnies  :------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 14:06
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Having spent much of my teenage years in and around Bristol, hanging round City Road, St Pauls and Easton and knowing quite a few 'squat' bands at that time, its no surprise it was the centre of what became known as Trip-Hop.. rub-a-dub reggae meets Krautrock/ hippie space rock meets squat-punk energy meets new recording and sampling technology. DJ Derek at the Star and garter in Montpellier.. ------------- |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 14:42
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^ Interesting, while I wonder what the Killa Bunnies lyrics are about. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 16:23
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I still enjoy a bit of trip hop from time to time. Nobody has yet mentioned Morcheeba, who were certainly trip hop adjacent. Their first couple of albums - Who Can You Trust and Big Calm - are a beguiling mix of lazy beats, slide guitars, analog synth sounds and serene female vocals. Ideal listening for late at night when you're in a, shall we say, relaxed state. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 17:03
| ^ I mentioned Morcheeba's Big Calm, but my post is a bit messy and hard to read, especially with the Massive Attack vs Portishead video in it which renders the lower portion of the post less obvious/ visible. |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 17:48
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Start this at 1:20 if you dont want a way too long intro... ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 17:59
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^ Interesting, to me that sounds much more like the techno house music some of my friends would listen to in the 90s than what I associate with Trip hop. Anyway, the first Portishead song I got into is Sour Times, and this is my favourite version of the song. 
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Posted By: Rexorcist
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 18:06
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Blarghem... Nobody loves meeeeeee, it's true... not like you doooo... You gotta look for Portishead's In Concert 652. Another excellent live album.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 18:09
| It seems to be mostly a 90s thing and I doubt there was much Trip Hop happening after the 21st century started. I know about it but other than No-Man I haven't heard much. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 18:53
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^ I do think it's mostly a 90s thing (well into the 2000s I think there is still quite a lot). I really only got into it in recent years. I'm still discovering lost of music from the 60s up and finding avenues to explore. Of course I had heard Massive Attack and Portishead in the 90s because I'm of that age and somewhat hip. Here's Headache's 2023 debut, The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth. I like it. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 22:33
| ^ & ^^ I don't think Trip Hop is the type of genre that can or should be revived like Psychedelic Rock or New Wave/Post Punk has been several times. But it's influence is all over popular music. Much moreso than the bigger selling acts of Grunge Rock or Nu Metal from the same era. The willingness to experiment with beats and electronics in combination with "real" instruments, the dark soundscapes and the sheer emotional impact in something that was also "dance music" (to an extent) - speaks to a new generation who by and large doesn't listen to rock. Besides in the 2000's Gorillaz got bigger and more popular than both Portishead and Massive Attack with an approach and sound that was of it's time, but undeniably Trip Hop. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 18 2025 at 23:19
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'Bristol Trip- Hop' has actually made its way onto the BBC quiz show Pointless as a potential final subject. You get 4 very random choices and that one regularly comes up but no one as yet has picked it probably because they have no idea what it is! ( I assume it will just be Massive Attack and Portishead). Unfinished Sympathy is one of my favourite songs of all time. If ever there was a song that was so perfect in every respect (melody, production, atmosphere, groove, feel, singing) then it's that one for me.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 19 2025 at 07:47
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My general knowledge of trip hop is very partial (I only know of a few artistes - bolded below), so I welcome this thread to broaden my horizon, so I'd add Gibbons & Rustin Man's Out of Season and Bjork's Debut albums as well Massive Attack (UK) Mezzanine (1998) Moloko (UK) Do You Like My Tight Sweater (1995) Portishead (UK) Roseland NYC Live (1998) Unkle (UK) Psyence Fiction (1998) Portishead - Dummy 1994 Yoèu've guessed it, my main approach would be to find +/- Pörtishead-y to carry onwards, so I'm waiting for your suggestions . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 19 2025 at 07:50
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According to RYM's statistics, there were about 250 Trip Hop releases per year in the second half of the '90s (the peak period) and something like 150-200 releases per year in the 2000s and quite up to 2025. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 11:35
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Another album, which I've been quite fond of over the years and which maybe can be considered as Trip Hop, at least partly, is Primal Scream's Vanishing Point (1997). ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |