Dirk van den Heuvel (dirkv@groovedis.com)
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:24:43 -0600
Okay someone has gotten close for American trip hop. Thievery Corp is up
there (quality if not popularity wise) with Massive and Portishead..though
then again Thievery Corp has never written any classic "songs" in the vein
of "Sour Times" or "Protection" or "Unfinished Sympathy" or "Safe From Harm"
..okay I'm sticking to my guns..there's no American artists doing trip hop
in the league of Massive Attack or Portishead (but Esthero come
close--though they'd be considered Canadian right?).
Dirk van den Heuvel (dirkv@groovedis.com)
Groove Distribution
www.groovedis.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: DJ Fish [mailto:fish@yesmate.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:05 PM
To: Acid-Jazz Mailing List; Dirk van den Heuvel
Subject: american artists (was RE: downtempo in movies)
dirk was on about:
> What
> American trip hop artist compares with Portishead and Massive Attack? I
> can't think of any. DJ Shadow comes close maybe.
not sure about this, but the majority of the samples come from old american
records, so don't feel too left out. michael kandel (tranquility bass)
deserves a mention. how about tony d? (okay so he releases on manchester's
grand central but he's from new jersey innit?)... and then there's king
britt, thievery corp. hey wtf am i doing sticking up for american music
anyway? ;)
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