version sound wrote:Stupid name, though. I think it’s largely been renamed “electronica” now, which is also a completely shit name that’s roughly the equivalent of the use of “new wave” as a marketing tool. I’ve been listening to a lot of Alpha lately, who are absolutely tops. If y’all fuck with Massive Attack and Portishead, you really need to check out the first few Alpha albums, Come From Heaven and The Impossible Thrill in particular. Like Massive Attack and Tricky, these dudes were affiliated with Bristol’s Wild Bunch.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
version sound wrote:Come now, I was listening to this crap back in the early ‘90s because the British music press told me that Ride loved Blue Lines, while you were still flogging melodic hardcore to the masses.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:version sound wrote:Come now, I was listening to this crap back in the early ‘90s because the British music press told me that Ride loved Blue Lines, while you were still flogging melodic hardcore to the masses.
I know you don't care for melodic hardcore (I love it, though), but why does one have to choose?
xxxMidgexxx wrote:The worst Trip Hop artist is 10 x better than the best hip hop artist.
FACT
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:version sound wrote:No idea how I have never heard of these folks (Alpha).
xxxMidgexxx wrote:The worst Trip Hop artist is 10 x better than the best hip hop artist.
FACT
JGJR wrote:Tricky, but only Maxinquaye really grabbed me.
JGJR wrote:Most so-called trip hop artists would classify themselves as hip-hop heads of the organic, DJ, record collecting/crate digging/backpack sort. They've just slowed down breakbeats (James Brown samples, essentially), the same stuff used in hip-hop extensively and sped up in jungle. When you dig back far enough, this stuff comes from similar sources....
patient_ot wrote:JGJR wrote:Most so-called trip hop artists would classify themselves as hip-hop heads of the organic, DJ, record collecting/crate digging/backpack sort. They've just slowed down breakbeats (James Brown samples, essentially), the same stuff used in hip-hop extensively and sped up in jungle. When you dig back far enough, this stuff comes from similar sources....
That's exactly where Massive Attack came from AFAIK, though early on they crossed over with house music and some other things (prior to the first album). Although "trip hop" is rooted in hip hop, I think it's something very different at the end of the day, mainly because hip hop was based on American culture (though it spread to other places) while "trip hop" at least at the outset, was a UK/British thing. I don't think American hip hop guys would have though of slowing the tempo down, making things murky sounding, then adding melodic female vocals over the top either. I also hear a fair amount of dub influence in some trip-hop, whereas you don't really get that with a lot of hip hop/rap music. Some rap was heavily influenced by late 70s/early 80s "rub a dub" dancehall music though.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
version sound wrote:I mean, yeah, trip hop definitely started out as a British thing and grew from there, but it is very much rooted in b-boy culture. The biggest difference, as has already been mentioned, is the bigger influence of reggae and dub.
patient_ot wrote:Note "quite" trip hop, but sorta crossing paths with that scene. Both of these albums are extremely underrated IMHO.
https://www.discogs.com/Scala-Beauty-No ... ster/32887
https://www.discogs.com/Locust-Morning- ... ster/23546
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