Any Trip Hop and other related genre fans? Please Share!

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I have been experimenting making electronica since 1995 and was around in the UK during the beginnings of what is called trip hop although not all the artists like the term, especially the artists from Bristol UK such as massive attack.

In the early days i was really into the early production of MoWax which was the label started by James Lavelle. Although i think fans would refer to the music as alternative hip hop or even headz smokin beats.

Some of the artists that i enjoyed listening to over the years include Attica Blues, nightmares on wax, dr. octagon and DJ Shadow. I also liked 4 Hero and Howie B.

I liked some of massive attack's music (although not a fan of the elitist power abusing celebrity culture that the celebs are into). One thing i found interesting is the difference in the quality of the production from their early releases to releases that came later. Massive attack are another Bristolian group who were part of a group of artists that formed a kind of elitist producer syndicate in the uk. Other bristolians includes and other non bristolians such as Goldie.

Shame that these people had to incorporate the bad aspects of the hip hop culture into their music scene.
But i guess where ever their is money and honeys your going to find honey bee's or wasps who are going to sting everyone around to keep the honey for themselves. The nature of small brained insects I guess.

I also really liked a lot of the releases on Giles Petersons Acid Jazz label. A great deal of these records were re-releases from the 60's and included instrumentals that were great fun and dance floor orientated and a little old school porno.

I also love reggae and reggae dub, and have been in reggae bands as well as made my own studio productions.
so trip hop or alternative hip hop is going to resonate well with me. generally. Great music shame about the gangs of idiots who have to bully everyone like Nazi's. For them is not how good you are, its all about control.
such people kill the love. To me they cancel out any kudo's from their creative endeavours.

make Great music = cool
subject innocent people to nazi like treatment = not cool

cool + not cool = 0 (or perhaps even -0)

I really can't add much. You guys already covered Tricky, Massive Attack, Archive, etc..

A couple notes I might add: Massive Attack's release this year was still pretty hype. 3D definitely hasn't lost his orientation to what's current and relevant.

Also I've really been digging Submotion Orchestra a lot over the last several years (got introduced to them by some of Stray's mixes). They're really something like a more rounded jazz-band rethinking the dubstep construction and tempo with Ruckspin on the coordinating but they hold a similar kind of charge to what I liked in Archive under Roya.

Another sidenote - a lot of female singers/producers have been raiding triphop for ideas. As a current example I notice that in a particularly strong way with Sevdaliza.

As requested.


With Tricky Maxinquaye, Premillenium Tension, and Nearly God are pretty obvious. He's still kept good quality, hasn't quite found another Martina (lol... good luck on that one). Regardless I liked this one on Adrian Thaws when I heard it:



As far as Massive Attack's Ritual Dance EP I liked Dead Editors but I have a hard time calling that one trip hop - it reminds me more of the kind of dnb-flavored dancehall that Sam Binga likes to do with Redders and Rider Shafique. Either way the guys had a powerful find in Azekel - the guy's dope, he almost reminds me of a brainier Weeknd:



Gotta touch on Martina. This is one of maybe a few tunes I can think of where I have to watch where I listen to it. I can cry my eyes out if I'm not on my P's and Q's - the melody and then the subject matter on top of that.



And I was talking about Sevdeliza before:

Another side note for Roya Arab fans - after retiring from Archive she did do a tune with Grooverider on Mysteries of Funk (1998) called Rainbows of Colour. I actually found out about her and Archive through Grooverider rather than the other way around.

There's no solo video of the tune and all the remixes are crap IMHO. It starts at 9:10 after Cybernetic Jazz. Though, if you want to listen to a tech-jazz dnb album it's a good one so that's fine too.

Something appropriately inappropriate. She's from Atlanta, apparently mixing darkwave with rnb but the net effect fits.



Oh heck... speaking of Atlanta, I completely forgot - The Internet

TY - I lose sight of some corners after a while. She seemed like she was gung ho on giving the music up to be an archaeologist so I figured that was that. Good to see she's at least finding a little time to get back in the game!

I've been in to Trip Hop quite a bit in the past - Massive Attack, Portishead mostly. I even had that Massive Attack singles box set where the box was made with thermal paint so it changed colors when heated like from the touch of your skin. Not many other trip hop groups have I liked more than one album but others I'd mention would include Hooverphonic, Lamb, Morcheeba, Sneaker Pimps. Lots of other groups / artists have seemed to dabble in it or come close at times on individual songs - Sola Sistem by Underworld, Woman by Neena Cherry and some others. Overall probably my favorite tracks in the genre would be Roads by Portishead, Dissolved Girl by Massive Attack and also Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack.