When i hear the word Trip Hop used i automaticly think of Massive
Attack, Tricky and Portishead...guess i can blame the mainstream press
for that.
Ill agree that alot of the music coming out now is hard to pin down into
one spesific genre but IMO we dont really HAVE to have a genre for
everything, do we? The problem with Trip Hop was that the media
eventually used ot for every piece of music they couldnt pin down as
either rock, pop, techno or hiphop so you ended up with a mixture of big
beat, techno/ambient, instrumental hiphop and -*slow,beatdriven,abstract
music*- (portishead and their likes) in one genre... Trip Hop.
Afterall..what in gods name does Portishead, Chemical Brothers, Red
Snapper, Propellerheads, Dj Krush and Money Mark have in common????
Ive seen them all labeled as Trip Hop one time or another.....
bPlus
...Return Of The Dj II is blowing my headphones right now! :D
feesh@asu.edu wrote:
>
> I wouldnt say portishead wrote the book on trip hop either, but bjork
> didnt neccessarily do that either. I know a lot of people on this list
> list hate that term but nevertheless it exists, and it IS a genre, which
> I tend to classify as tricky/portishead/morcheeba/lamb. Basically laid
> back dance beats with female vocals, smooth.
> as for where it started, I would site tricky/massive attack, not bjork.
> Although she is good, I feel she brought techno in general to the
> mainstream. Her music is much more danceable, more house-oriented, than
> trip hop is.
> scott