Trip-Hop Music: Album, Track and Artist Charts

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Description of Trip-Hop

Trip-Hop is hip-hop with the attitude levels set on low. A moody, downtempo style that draws on influences from soul, reggae, jazz and rap, Trip-Hop rose out of England's former slave port, Bristol. Massive Attack introduced the subgenre with Blue Lines in 1991, but their Bristol contemporaries Portishead -- who had the international hit "Sour Times" -- and the gravel-voiced Tricky took the seductively eerie, interior sounds into the mainstream. With its breakbeat-based rhythms, looped samples and languid aura, Trip-Hop is soothing music for the angst-ridden.

Trip-Hop Key Tracks

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Play/Add	Track	Artist
	1. Giving Up The Ghost	DJ Shadow
	2. Dreddoverboard (DJ Food Mix)	Nightmares on Wax
	3. Teardrop	Massive Attack
	4. A Private Interlude	Groove Armada
	5. Anywayz	Esthero
	6. 3030	Deltron 3030
	7. Start/Stop	Medeski, Martin and Wood
	8. Mezzanine	Massive Attack
	9. Communication Break-Down	Hexstatic
	10. Weightless	Thievery Corporation

Trip-Hop Key Albums

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Electronica/Dance > Downtempo > Trip-Hop

Trip-Hop Key Artists

Andrea Parker

Trained in cello and voice,
Parker went from being a DJ
(1993) to England's top
female Trip-Hop producer
and remixer (1999).

Arling & Cameron

It's like watching a movie
with your eyes closed. This
duo from Amsterdam
compose soundtrack
themes without a movie c...

Dzihan & Kamien

This Vienna-based duo
creates funky downtempo
with a taste for the Near
East. D&K, out of Vienna,
create downtempo with t...

Fila Brazillia

This duo uses too many
electronics to be called
jazz, yet their arrangements
and creative mood often
resembles the genre. Stev...

Herbaliser

Jake Wherry and Ollie
Teeba lead a crew of seven
in playing a mix of old
school instrumentals and
emcee-run hip-hop.

Howie B

In-demand Scottish
producer Howie B takes
the listener on a cinematic
journey of ambient
Trip-Hop. Howie B has wo...

Kruder & Dorfmeister

Viennese downtempo
specialists K&D are masters at
remixing and creating the
ultimate hyptronic
experience. These chill-o...

London Funk Allstars

This live ensemble from the
U.K. plays Trip-Hop
influenced by Acid Jazz.
Heavy use of horns, samples
and breakbeats. LFA inclu...

Massive Attack

Bristol-based Rapper 3D,
Daddy G, and Mushroom
make up this massive
Trip-Hop outfit formerly
known as the Wild Bunch...

Minus 8

Bassist Robert Jan Meyer
takes his jazzy Latin
influences into the
downtempo realm with
textural patterns of ambie...

Neotropic

Riz Maslen produces a
variety of downtempo and
drum 'n' bass that can be
found on the venerable
Ninja Tune label.

Nightmares on Wax

George Evelyn and Kevin
Harper joined forces in
Yorkshire, England in 1988
to create this smooth
trip-hop sound. This Britis...

Portishead

The minimal Trip-Hop sound
of Geoff Barrow and Adrian
Utley back the hauntingly
beautiful vocals of Beth
Gibbons. Portishead is na...

Rae & Christian

Mark Rae and Steve
Christian have a fine taste
for hip-hop and other
booty-shaking styles such
as House and Acid Jazz.

Tosca

Tosca is the brainchild of
downtempo minimalists
Richard Dorfmeister and
Rupert Huber from Vienna.
The 1996 singles "Chocola...

Tricky

Finding it's cooler to trip
than to be hip, this emcee
from Bristol gained
popularity from his raps
with Massive Attack. Tric...

UNKLE

Mo 'Wax label frontman
James Lavelle teamed with
DJ Shadow to form this
rock-influenced, bleepy
trip-hop project. U.N.K.L....

Up, Bustle and Out

Rupert Mould and D. Fell
intertwine concepts such
as Latin percussion and
Salsa into their rootsy brand
of Trip-Hop.

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Description of Trip-Hop

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