Buffy ,'Help'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Besides the quintessential Massive Attack, what other triphop that's rather downtempo-ish would people recommend?
Obvious places to go would be anything by Portishead (esp. their first), the first Morcheeba record. First Goldfrapp record.
Various Ultra Chilled collections (though some of these can be bland. Others can be decent samplers.)
Here's somebody's Amazon chillout list with some trip hop classics
I was gonna say Portishead, Hec! Dammit, I so very rarely have anything useful to say in here, and you stole my thunder.
Dammit, I so very rarely have anything useful to say in here, and you stole my thunder.
That's about all I knew until bon bon educated me in the genre.
As consolation I offer you...
The pirate themed party girls of Bootie (the mashup club
Well damn.
Ladytron is more electronica than trip-hop, but they're awesome.
Oh! I've been listening to a lot of Sneaker Pimps lately. They count.
Also, for Trip-hop, Tricky, who worked with Massive Attack early on.
It's hard to list Trip Hop bands cos it wasn't a scene, it was a description applied (originally) to the various post-Wild Bunch Bristol acts who combined dub and hip hop at the start of the '90s. If you've already got the Massive/Tricky/Portishead albums then I'd just hit the motherload - anything released on On-U Sound records in the '80s. Particularly On-U Sound System, Mark Stewart and the Maffia, Dub Syndicate...
If you just want stuff that's kind of like Massive Attack - and lord knows many people do - check out Kruder and Dorfmeister's The K&D Sessions, Nightmares On Wax, early Moloko, Talvin Singh and pretty much anything on Ninja Tunes or Big Chill recordings will have the right vibe.
The actual trip-hop sound was blown away when Jungle hit, so there weren't that many key recordings.
Thank you all! Whee! More music!
That whole derivation of names for the genre sounds like the mishmash known as "darkwave" or "darkambient" and all its spawn.
Makes the head spin.