I think of Chemical Bros, Skint, Propeller Heads stuff.... Rocky edged
distorted up-paced breakbeat dance music. Maybe a new
category.....hmmm....Hard Hop?
> 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.
>
This is why I call this stuff Nu-Alternative instead of Trip Hop. It
still feels more like grunge than anything else. (albeit a little darker
and less angry)
randy