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.

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.

HAYDEN! How's that baby?

HEY, MSBELLE! Did you get my email? I've been slow to get out thank-you notes, but we really appreciate the baby swag.

Abe's doing fine in general, but he's a fussy little thing. After a few nights of lack of sleep, my wife was at her wit's end last night. Even though I was supposed to be at work at 7, I was up with him until 2:30 last night (and since this is the 4th day in the row like this, I didn't make it in until after 9). Our post-partum doula said she rarely sees a child as unwilling to nap as our kid. Lucky us. He's really cute when he calms down, though.

yes, I got the email. no need for a note. Poor Abe and poor mom and dad.

Nah, we're fine. He's just an expressive kid.

Our post-partum doula said she rarely sees a child as unwilling to nap as our kid. Lucky us. He's really cute when he calms down, though.

This is why your wife should be drinking. It will calm both of them down.

Listen to "Treadwell No More," which is from Richard Thompson's soundtrack to an upcoming Herzog film.

Check out this site, Hayden. It has more about the soundtrack & the film. The media section of the site is where I found the book-length study of RT's songs that I linked to a while back. There's also a bit about a new novel based on "Strange Affair," one of his great songs & Linda's best vocals. Great site all the way around for RT fans.

Check out this week's Ron Rosenbaum column, too. (I post this solely because I like to imagine Hayden's reaction when he gets to the Melville reference.) There's a review of Jonathan Lethem's new book, too, but you can find it yourself.

Since Joe didn't link, I will:

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Lethem's cominh to the first ever Author's festival in Halifax, conveniently scheduled during the Time of Hellish Deadlines pour moi. Just to make this post somewhat about music, One Ring Zero are also performing as part of the festival.