Trip hop, please stop

tim@vivid-edge.co.uk
Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:01:01 +0100


>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.

funny, because when I hear the term trip hop, I always think of tracks by
Palmskin Productions, Le Funk Mob, DJ Shadow, Tranquility Base - Mo'Wax
stuff. Spliff heavy nodding tunes.

Tricky and Portishead were just extremely fashionable for a few weeks in
1995, a while after trip hop had come and gone - they caught a wave, a mood
at that time that - retro, dirty, nihilistic, morose, second-hand. A
profitable meeting between grunge, soul, hip-hop and ganja.

Thing is, I didn't like either of those first two albums, because at the
time I felt jungle offered more...but I'm still fascinated by the artists
mentioned in the first paragraph.

Would anyone classify Tek 9 as trip hop (e.g. 'Phat like a bomb' from 'It's
not what you think it is")? Some of their tracks have all the necessary.

Tim Snaith 30 Guildown Road
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