hey trip hop has always seem to stick out when i see those words. anyone know what it is or what bands i should listen to that play that type of music.
trip hop is a kind of electronic music... personally i cannot stand it and dont know how to describe it. best i can remember it's a mix between techno, trance and experimental... google it.
ripetider...i was just going to say that...missive attack, portishead, and tricky...the epitome of trip hop
yeah i find it hard to explain trip hop too. Id say its a form of electronica thats based on hip hop beats, but is influenced by all kinds of music, to create a mixture thats alot more innovative than hip hop. heres a few good trip hop bands and artists dj shadow portishead dj cam four tet
From All Music Guide: genre: Electronica Yet another in a long line of plastic placeholders to attach itself to one arm or another of the U.K. post-acid house dance scene's rapidly mutating experimental underground, Trip-Hop was coined by the English music press in an attempt to characterize a new style of downtempo, jazz-, funk-, and soul-inflected experimental breakbeat music which began to emerge around in 1993 in association with labels such as Mo'Wax, Ninja Tune, Cup of Tea, and Wall of Sound. Similar to (though largely vocal-less) American hip-hop in its use of sampled drum breaks, typically more experimental, and infused with a high index of ambient-leaning and apparently psychotropic atmospherics (hence "trip"), the term quickly caught on to describe everything from Portishead and Tricky, to DJ Shadow and U.N.K.L.E., to Coldcut, Wagon Christ, and Depth Charge — much to the chagrin of many of these musicians, who saw their music largely as an extension of hip-hop proper, not a gimmicky offshoot. One of the first commercially significant hybrids of dance-based listening music to crossover to a more mainstream audience, trip-hop full-length releases routinely topped indie charts in the U.K. and, in artists such as Shadow, Tricky, Morcheeba, the Sneaker Pimps, and Massive Attack, account for a substantial portion of the first wave of "electronica" acts to reach Stateside audiences.
