RE: the trip-hop/hip-hop thing

Dana Cobbs (DCobbs@sequiturcorp.com)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:37:12 -0400


Im not a DJ exactly, but the only instrumental hip-hop I know of (b4
trip-hop) are the instrumental versions of a particular rap song on say
a 12'' for example...and as far as breakbeats go, I dont know that there
were actual breakbeats b4 rap? The whole beat concept behind rap came
from mixing two records together. Not necessarily 2 breakbeat records
together...You can buy breakbeat albums all day, so as not to have to
keep sampling from this record and that one, and in turn owing monies to
this artist and that one...just a thought.....hhhmmm...

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>From: Matthew Robert Chicoine[SMTP:scooby@umich.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 1996 5:29 PM
>To: Elson Trinidad
>Cc: Tyler Askew; acid-jazz@UCSD.EDU
>Subject: Re: the trip-hop/hip-hop thing
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>Another thing, wasn't there such a thing as instrumental hip-hop before
>
>"trip-hop"? Wasn't there such a thing as breakbeats before raps?
>hmmmm...
>