I was gonna say Portishead, Hec! Dammit, I so very rarely have anything useful to say in here, and you stole my thunder.
Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
Polter-Cow - Mar 16, 2005 3:45:33 pm PST #7663 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DavidS - Mar 16, 2005 3:47:37 pm PST #7664 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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
Polter-Cow - Mar 16, 2005 3:52:40 pm PST #7665 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well damn.
Polter-Cow - Mar 16, 2005 3:56:00 pm PST #7666 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
DavidS - Mar 16, 2005 3:56:33 pm PST #7667 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Mar 16, 2005 4:07:41 pm PST #7668 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Frankenbuddha - Mar 16, 2005 5:17:57 pm PST #7669 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, for Trip-hop, Tricky, who worked with Massive Attack early on.
Jim - Mar 16, 2005 10:26:29 pm PST #7670 of 10003
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
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.
StuntHusband - Mar 17, 2005 4:19:29 am PST #7671 of 10003
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
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.
Hayden - Mar 17, 2005 6:32:33 am PST #7672 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
The best thing I ever got off Thomas Bartlett's shitty Salon blog: [link] Listen to "Treadwell No More," which is from Richard Thompson's soundtrack to an upcoming Herzog film. It has a pleasant similarity to Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack.
The two jokey songs about Janet Jackson & Pat Metheny are also fun.