Trip hop
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Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound) is a term coined by United Kingdom dance magazine Mixmag, to describe a musical trend in the mid-1990s; trip hop is downtempo electronic music that grew out of England's hip hop and house scenes. Characterized by a reliance on breakbeats and a sample-heavy sound pioneered by Coldcut's remix of Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid in Full", trip hop gained notice via popular artists such as Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky, and rock-influenced sound groups such as Ruby, California's DJ Shadow, and the UK's Howie B. Londoners Morcheeba and Glideascope are also often associated with this sound.
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The Bristol sound
The Bristol sound was the name given to a number of bands from Bristol, England, in the 1990s. These bands spawned the musical genre trip-hop, though many of the bands shunned this name when other British and international bands imitated the style and preferred not to distinguish it from hip-hop.
It is characterised by a slow, spaced-out hip-hop sound that a number of artists in the early and mid 1990s made synonymous with the city. These artists can include the aforementioned original Bristolians Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky and others such as Way Out West, Smith and Mighty and The Wild Bunch.
Musicology
Trip-hop is known for its moody, dark, yet lyrical sound.
The trip-hop sound relies on jazz samples, usually taken from old vinyl jazz records. This reliance on sampling has changed the way record labels deal with clearing samples for use in other people's tracks. Trip-hop tracks often sample Rhodes pianos, saxophones, trumpets, and flutes, and develops in parallel to hip hop, each inspiring the other.
Trip-hop production is historically lo-fi, relying on analog recording equipment and instrumentation for an ambience. 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.
Later, artists such as Glideascope have taken inspiration from many other sources including world and orchestral influences.
Related artists
- Air
- Björk (mainly on Post) - see also The Sugarcubes
- DJ Food
- Rob Dougan: Trip Hop with classical orchestration and bluesy vocal.
- Esthero
- Felix Laband
- Frou Frou
- Gorillaz
- Glideascope: downtempo with trip-hop elements
- Hooverphonic
- Kruder & Dorfmeister
- DJ Krush
- Kid Koala
- Lamb (Organica, but typically defined as Trip-Hop due to similarities)
- Lemon Jelly
- Lovage
- Mandalay
- Massive Attack
- Medeski, Martin & Wood
- Morcheeba
- Olive
- Portishead
- Röyksopp
- DJ Shadow
- Smoke City
- Sneaker Pimps
- DJ Spooky
- Thievery Corporation
- Tricky
- Amon Tobin
- Zero 7
External links
- Salon.com's Triphop article (http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/reviews/triphop.html)
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