Trip Hop - Unkle, Tricky, Portishead, Allflaws

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#204

Huge hit or miss genre, only artists worth anything are portishead, tricky and massive attack. everything else is kinda by the numbers coffee shop music or really something else, but breakbeats & atmospheric synths just make people shoe them into trip hop.

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#205

Massive Attack- Mezzanine

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#206

Hoover - 2Wicky (1996)

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#207
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#208

Around the time that trip-hop really came to the fore in the 90s with Tricky, Massive Attack etc. there was a very good group from Bristol called Earthling who had a similar sound and should have had more attention. Check out their album Radar. This is my favourite tune from that album, classic Bristol trip-hop sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n10_rLJkMyk. Just discovered that they released this very beautiful tune in 2016, with none other than Julee Cruise on vocals, songwriter of the Twin Peaks theme. Again, this should have received way more attention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ux43YjUcc

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#209

Thanks for this. Massive Attack is one of my favorites. This is great too.

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#210

EleanĆ³r Knight - in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjxlmMxc5pg

#211

Smith & Mighty - under-represented, but a lot of the Bristol lot learnt their trade in their studio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9zcNo9fbIk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLoF78hwHbM

#212

Iā€™m happy to see Archiveā€™s londinium has been mentionned !

Butā€¦

Iā€™m surprised that noone mentionned Sevdaliza yetā€¦

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#213

Does anyone have any trip hop composition or production tips? Thought this maybe the best place for it? I know Trip Hop is a melting pot of genres and styles, but this is what i have so far (maybe generalising a little):

  • Slowed down breaks
  • Dub bass patterns
  • Jazz samples
  • Female vocals
  • Synths
  • Vinyl crackle/texture/foley
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#214

I remember Earthling, that album was greatā€¦ they seemed more Acid Jazz/Tribe Called Quest/Beastie Boys inspired to me more than Trip Hop. I remember seeing them live and there seemed to be about 20 people on stage.

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#215

Nice to hear Iā€™m not the only one ha ha, great that you saw them live. Yeah, they were more of an acid jazz/hip hop vibe but they had some nice trip hop tunes, especially Nefisa. If you havenā€™t heard it check the 2016 track with Julee Cruise who wrote the Twin Peaks theme. Different from their earlier stuff, almost has a Massive Attack Teardrop vibe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ux43YjUcc

#216

Doing trip hop patterns from time to time when need to chillā€¦ the basics of the workflow is like you thought. Since I got an OT making downtempo music seems easier to me; I also like to jam with some mate playing electric bass or guitar to get that kind of sound only string instruments can give.
It is definetely a genre with no fixed boundaries; much more like a feeling tho.

#217

This band was a favourite back in the day. Not entirely sure they fit the genre, but FWIW ā€¦

#218

I didnā€™t really like allflaws first two albums, as they sound like a parody of massive attack.

But listened to this album today and itā€™s much better. Dark, and more instrumental.

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#219

Lol. Hello from the future :grinning:

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#220

Couldnā€™t agree more. Loved this album. As for popularity, I think plenty of music nerds are familiar, and I remember that video being on MTV, at least.

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#221

BoC is not trip hop.

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#222

Love that track

#223

I should hang out with pessimists more often :rofl:

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