Re: The name game - Trip hop
Erik Gaderlund (erikg@macconnect.com)
Tue, 10 Jun 1997 19:20:49 -0800
>From: feesh@asu.edu
>
>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
>
>On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Jason Brancazio wrote:
>
>> Reply to: RE>>The name game : Trip hop
>>
>> Vocal trip hop - that's interesting...
>>
>> I'd call that stuff "well-produced pop music". Portishead included.
>>Though I
>> don't know exactly what pop music is (as well as acid jazz), so I could be
>> wrong. But Portishead did not write the book on it - they just made a dope
Well I heard of massive attack called trip-hop after I had bought the album
with the IDM lable that I got from Elle magazine! But, I prefer someone
elses catagory for massive attack, which was 'a soundtrack for life.'
Don't we all wish we had a life for a soundtrack.
later,
erik gf