The reporter was an Englishman named Charles Delidesma (?). He had this
typical British accent, the kind you might hear on a BBC documentary or
the Ruttles mockumentary :). Moving on...
He started talking about Portishead and how they made trip hop a big
thing. He said that they represented the coming of age of the Bristol
sound, a "superficially lazy, musically precise" sound. Then he went on
to DJ Shadow and James Lavelle's Mo Wax label. He mentioned the Headz
compilation (even spelled it out). From their, he went to Tricky, then
Howie B., and then concluded by saying that trip hop is just part of the
incredible musical creativity going on in England nowadays, that we
should "catch it while [we] can" and "feed [our] headz".
Basically, a decent report, nothing that we didn't already know.
Playlist: Portishead's "Glory Box", DJ Shadow's "Influx", U.N.K.L.E.'s
"Time Has Come", Tricky's "Aftermath" and Skylab's "Seashell".
Disappointed in the fact that Massive Attack's groundbreaking efforts
(IMHO) were not credited. Also, no interview soundbites. Hip hop,
jamaican dub engineering techniques, b-movie samples, jazz loops were
cited as main ingredients of the "trip hop" sound, yet it is still "zany,
unpredictable". :) Tired of typing...
Jazz On,
Alexees.