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Is it time for a TRIP HOP revival yet?

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Just wondering... Oh, and is the history of modern music an endless penduuum switching between lusher sounds and harder angular ones?

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Thursday, 15 June 2006 17:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

New Kingdom has been on my mind for a fair bit now.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

MORCHEEBA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― boonah (boonah), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

I listened to the first Moloko album the other day - it's meandering and silly, but holds up pretty well all the same.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

I read a nice piece on Depth Charge's Nine Deadly Venoms the other day, and thought I should probably dust it off for re-appraisal...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

no. the worst trax on the lindstrom album are those w/that trip hoppy chick voice

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

New Kingdom are trip hop?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

moloko to release 'best of' in coming months, with lots being released digitally only - were they trip hop ?

- ie chunk of remixes etc .. hang on here's the PR :

To coincide with the release of the fantastic CATALOGUE – BEST OF MOLOKO, Mark Brydon and Roisin Murphy have put together a collection of 3 outstanding remix compilations which will be available as digital only album collections on July 17th 2006.

Each bundle will consist of 2 albums worth of highly sought after Moloko sounds.

The first half will be the standard CD1 BEST OF; a selection of Moloko’s finest moments, celebrating their amazing career and featuring all the classic hits from their 4 inspirational studio albums.

The second will be a special 13-track collection, comprising LIVE TRACKS, NEW MIXES, B-SIDES and RARE MIXES of their exceptional work as well as a selection of PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED material, exclusive to the digital retailers.

TRACKLISTINGS
CD1 – Catalogue
1. Time Is Now
2. Sing It Back
3. Fun For Me
4. Familiar Feeling
5. Pure Pleasure Seeker
6. Cannot Contain This
7. Bankrupt Emotionally
8. Day For Night
9. Indigo
10. The Flipside
11. Where Is The What If The What Is In Why
12. Forever More
13. Statues

DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE 1 - CAT NO. 370 1475

1. Sing It Back (Mousse T's Feel Love Mix)

2. The Flipside (Herbert Surround Sound Mix)

3. Dominoid (Panty Sniffer Mix)

4. Indigo (Gus Gus Mix)

5. Lotus Eaters (Funk In Your Neighbourhood Mix)

6. Time Is Now (Can 7's Soulfood Mix)

7. Fun For Me (Plankton's Pondlife)

8. Pure Pleasure Seeker (Oscar G's Cube Libre Dub)

9. Forever More - (Francois Kervorkian Mix)

10. Familiar Feeling (Plankton's Country Slice Mix)

11. Sing It Back - (Can 7's 1930 Mix)

12. Party Wierdo (Wackdown Mix)

13. Where Is The What... (Wonderbook Mix)

DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE 2 - CAT No. 370 1535

1. I Want You (Live)
2. 100% (Live)
3. Blow By Blow (Live)
4. Come On (Live)
5. Being Is Bewildering (Live)
6. Pure Pleasure Seeker (Pleasure & Stripped Disco Mix)
7. Knee Deepen (Quartermaster Again Mix) *
8. Time Is Now (Fk Blissed Out Dub)
9. Familiar Feeling (Martin Buttrich Remix)
10. Forevermore (Pedal Freak Mix) *
11. Time Is Now (Donny One Leg’s Two Step) *
12. Lotus Eaters (Fila Brazillia Mix 1)
13. Sing It Back (Tee’s Freeze Mix)

DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE 3 - CAT No. 370 1575
1. Time Is Now (Dj Plankton Mix)
2. Sing It Back (Chez Maurice Mix) *
3. Fun For Me (Tadpole Dub)
4. Familiar Feeling (Doctor Rockitt Comes Close Mix)
5. Pure Pleasure Seeker (Pleasure For Life Uk Vocal)
6. Cannot Contain This (Slapper’s Delight Mix) *
7. Take My Hand Only used as a b side
8. Day For Night (Quarter Master Mix) Only on ABTTM
9. Indigo (Damn! Colostomy Jam!- DCJ All Seeing I Mix) 10. The Flipside (Swags Numbskull Vocal Mix) *
11. Where Is The What If The What Is In Why ? (Wondervox Mix)
12. Forever More (Fkek Vocal Mix)
13. Forevermore (Herbert’s Nobody Dub) Promo Vinyl

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

ps. New Kingdom aint really trip hop are they ..

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

if anything, New Kingdom are hick-hop, sportin' flannels and goin' on about wearin' "sideburns like a Kinn-tucky head-hunter" and all...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

the greatest trip-hop DJ in the WORLD is Farid from 18th Street Lounge in D.C. (he's secretly their top achievement and the only person that could still get me excited about that style)

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 16 June 2006 04:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

I miss Zero Seven.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 16 June 2006 04:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

they just released a new album


..and New Kingdom are trippy hip-hop - there is a difference

― grapple (grapple), Friday, 16 June 2006 04:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

Damn sarcasm function's acting up again...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

Maxinquaye is unimpeachable, but the rest of it?

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 16 June 2006 05:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's actually the 1st Twilight Singers album that made me think it might soon be time.

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Friday, 16 June 2006 06:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

trip hop suxx0rz man. the mid-90s equivalent of dub-techno.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

are mo'wax still around???

i remember one person actually telling me he listened to ambient hip-hop, as it was known in the days before Trip-hop.

― danny boy (danny boy), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

Maxinquaye is unimpeachable, but the rest of it?

Tricky's second album is still fresh, if such a murky record can be considered fresh. "Dummy" by Portishead still sounds good, and their second album was okay as well, IMO. Depth Charge seconded. Some of the Mo' Wax stuff was good- the first Headz compilation was about a 50/50 killer-filler ratio. There was an awful lot of crap released as a result of the trip hop/ Bristol sound hype, though.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

trip hop never went away, did it?

actually, shopping in london, it's like no genre goes away. i was in zara t'other day and it was all speed garridge.

xpost

There was an awful lot of crap released as a result of the trip hop/ BristolINSERT NAME OF GENRE HERE sound hype, though.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

ssssSSSHHH!

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

x-post

Very true, but (maybe?) particularly so for trip hop, since it was apparently pretty easy to get a record released featuring a lazy breakbeat with a female chanteuse/ horn sample/ blues sample over the top. It was also a bit too close to those Ibiza chill out compilation type release for comfort- a lot of it quickly shaded into that territory, much like contemporaneous drum 'n bass.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah, a lot of that -- and, i guess, hed kandi compilations -- it's like ye olde mood music, you listen to it differently, you don't follow artists or skip tracks. trip hop and the lighter end of d&b were/are kind of multi-purpose background material.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

since it was apparently pretty easy to get a record released featuring a lazy breakbeat with a female chanteuse/ horn sample/ blues sample over the top

not as easy/lazy as using that strawman!

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

haha. trip-hop basically turned into dido, didn't it? no real sonic difference between 'white flag' and, oh, pick any trip-hop also-ran from 1996.

the trip-hop revival is probably already on us even though no one's calling it that (watch for the "electronic soul" tag - the dani siciliano album last year was very trip-hop, also very good). and a lot of the stuff on border community veers close to tripping and hopping too.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

Fair point! Surely, though, a lot of trip hop did live up to that stereotype? And sold as a result? I'm thinking Zero Seven, Morcheeba, Baby Fox etc...

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

i own probably two hundred trip hop CDs. there's a HUGE amount of variety in those albums - everything from proto-DFA (DUH) to freaked-out japanese acid jazz to krautrocky spaced-out ambient hip hop (think req or skylab) to big beat etc etc

anyway if you ONLY want to think of triphop as morcheeba / portishead / sneaker pimps etc etc then NO, probably not time for a revival.

if you want to think of trip hop as the sum of downtempo electronica produced between ... 1985 or so and now, there's obviously a great deal of "search" along w/ the "destroy". and it's NEVER gone away ... hello four tet?

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

Hey, don't get me wrong, I like a lot of this stuff too, as I said up-thread. I agree that there was a lot of crossover and melding of genres, and a lot of it was very interesting as a result.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

anyway if you ONLY want to think of triphop as morcheeba / portishead / sneaker pimps etc etc

which itself proves just how massive the trip-hop umbrella is because all those bands have completely different sounds!

i mean, the mention of moloko on this thread is perplexing in itself, because i never saw how they fitted alongside portishead, tricky and so on: they had too much of a sense of humour for one thing. the róisín solo album is far more trip-hop than moloko ever were.

talking of tricky, the nearly god album is really a lost semi-classic.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

i don't think it's THAT big of a difference, at least not compared to the space between the breadth of acts on the greatest trip hop compilation of all time ... or was it this one??

i am just pissy because i just realized i could probably blog daily for about three years straight on all the good trip hop tracks i have in my apartment but i'll never get around to it.

anyway trip hop was SUPER important to me ... probably more than ANYTHING else, even detroit techno or deep house or jungle or whatever ... in high school i listened to lots of santana and jazz fusion and the melvins and also lots of hardcore and progressive house. and i had NO way of connecting the two worlds.

and then i got into trip hop. and it all opened up to me. and it got me into rap. and reggae.

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

if you want to think of trip hop as the sum of downtempo electronica produced between ... 1985 or so and now

i don't think ppl are bein that broad -- isn't 'trip hop' basically british downtempo, uh, post-wild bunch, sampler-based music (or something like that).

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

no real sonic difference between 'white flag' and, oh, pick any trip-hop also-ran from 1996.

hmm, Baby Fox maybe...but perceptions of trip-hop be nebulous as ever

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

trip-hop was super-important to me too - my teenage years were basically soundtracked by a) trip-hop (big players AND also-rans), b) angsty female singer-songwriters. i am grateful to all concerned - they ensured i was never a britpop kid and instilled a visceral loathing of all things indie and boys'n'guitar-based, ie my good taste.

i'd never have considered a lot of those acts on those compilations trip-hop (basement jaxx? properllerheads? les rythmes digitales?!) though - it is fair to say that my defns of the genre were not particularly rigorous or well-thought-out at the time.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

i mean, the mention of moloko on this thread is perplexing in itself, because i never saw how they fitted alongside portishead, tricky and so on

Moloko's early stuff (Dominoid, DYLMYTS etc.) had Roisin singing a LOT more like Beth Gibbons. So that combined with spooky analogue sounds seemed to validate the comparison.

Whereas Portishead and Tricky are usually only lumped together because they come from the same region of England...and Tricky sampled the same track as them for one hit.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

isn't 'trip hop' basically british downtempo

but bear in mind the term came from James Lavelle describing the artists on Mo Wax (many of whom were not British e.g. Shadow, Krush)

The Headz compilation on Mo Wax is still the real Trip-Hop deal.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

somewhat reductively i'd say that morcheeba, portishead and s pimps all came from v different backgrounds - r&b/soul, blues/jazz and er punk/indie respectively - and with very different aesthetic aims (peace'n'love hippie stuff; confessional introspection; bleakness of modern world).

oh yeah - i went to a gig by this act called bat for lashes the other week. not only are they totally trip-hop, but they are also getting the kind of press which indicates that big things await them. they're ok-ish i guess!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

Whereas Portishead and Tricky are usually only lumped together because they come from the same region of England...and Tricky sampled the same track as them for one hit.

'only' doing a lot of work.

-similar musical praxis
-similar stock of musical refs
-roots in same local scene

HOW DARE U LUMP THEM TOGETHER!

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

did lavelle really invent the term though?

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

iirc he coined it in the same way Gilles P coined 'Acid Jazz'

the Bristol lot hated the term

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

sneaker pimps were the soup dragons of trip hop.

xposts artists be hatin' labels shocker.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

re those Give Em Enough Dope comps vahid linked to. the second one i think of as Big Beat, and it's great. the first looks even more diverse and there's nothing on there i recognise as remotely trip-hoppy!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

lex is as usual on the crack about the mid-90s. plenty of people liked more than one genre of music. and you know, i'll take most britpop over fkn tori amos!

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

so steve, since i know you are the other HUGE fan of react's "dope classics" comp - one of the best electronica comps of ALL TIME, no doubt - would you say it's

a) trip hop
b) big beat
c) downtempo
d) early electronica
e) protobeardomicrohouse

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

f) nascent grime

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://www.discogs.com/release/210636

this one's got Ride on it FFS!

But seriiously, Four Tet isn't Trip Hop, is it?

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

i'll take most britpop over fkn tori amos!

completely wrong!

tori amos made a vaguely trip-hop album you know. it was really good.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

those triphoprisy sets are the absolute SHIT. although "vol 4" was the one that really cheese me off of this stuff - i remember thinking everything was total crap except jimi tenor, kid loops and monkey mafia - vols 1,2,3 will never leave my side.

also check arctic's "cream of trip hop" vols 1,2,3

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

re four tet, i don't think so. 'laptop idm'? trip hop was over by, what? '98 or earlier? did 'headz 2' and 'psyence fiction' kill it?

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

'laptop idm'?? yeah, you would really mistake a 4tet track for aphex or autechre and not howie b or palmskin productions, right?

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

indeed; but i'm trying to make the point that genres are not just about the sounds, and by the time 4tet came along no-one was talking about trip-hop. if he got lumped in at all, boards of canada were a ref point?

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

Skipping 45 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.
xpost to badderonixx-- if you take it as axiomatic that what wants to be "new" has to position itself or be positioned in contrast to what has come before, then it makes sense that successive ("successive") musics can be mapped to alternating binaries: lush/sparse, rounded/angular, apollonian/dionysian, thinking/feeling, etc etc. the trick of course is that the sufficiently clever can map any music to any quality.

this applies to...all art, all human endeavor maybe?

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

and New Kingdom are trippy hip-hop - there is a difference

Far enough, but the Star Trek sample cracks me up every time. I didn't even know there was a second album.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

I actually saw a chillout/electronic comp a short time ago that was called something like "Music For An Intense Dinner Party" or something, as far as I could tell from looking at it it wasn't tongue in cheek.

That said I have no problem with dinner party music. Not everyone chooses their social networks by shared musical tastes, so you need a shortlist of music that is unlikely to irritate people excessively in a social setting.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

xpost-- or sufficiently stupid, i suppose

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

"an intense dinner party"!

devoid of context that is a fucking great title for an album.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

and a great idea for a dinner party!

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

He's Hip, He's Cool, He's 45 and he presents "An Intense Dinner Party"

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

Hah - fantastic. I gotta get this.

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

Etymology lesson:

trip hop = 'trance hip hop' and was coined in the melody maker in a review of the chemical brothers (then the dust brothers), maybe of 'my mercury mouth' or one of the pre-name-change singles. ('93 maybe?) So it was originally used to describe what became big beat (which they had a hard time coming up with the name for), but then the usage slipped. I'm with Vahid, though. They're basically the same thing. The female singer thing is a ruse. It's just instrumental hip hop, innit?

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dinner parties. People would put Protection on and talk about fresh basil. It wasn't intense. I was there.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeh, chemical brothers was counted as trip hop before big beat got invented.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

it's not the same thing, just related. trip-hop = skunk, big beat = amyl and k.

along with Headz, Kruder & Dorfmeister's DJ Kicks mix is another major trip-hop touchstone though it touches on DnB (Aquasky) and does feature Hardfloor (but in 'trip-hop' mode).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Headz 1 is fantastic. I think Ninja Tunes stuff has aged less well. Although Stealth really was a fantastic club.

That thing about scratching being the 90s rockist sound of choice. Haha. THAT WAS ME.

God I feel old.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

Trip-hop kind of relied on the slowed-down hip-hop beat which sounded very tired indeed by 97-98. All this downtempo stuff still exists but the general move across dance music to more textured beats has had a knock-on effect here as well. The last Massive Attack record has basically microhouse/glitch crunchiness and a lot of Farbenesque sounds shoehorned in didn't it?

On the other end of the spectrum, it turned into Groove Armada.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

Also Border Community = trip-hop with a 4/4 kick, basically. Stick an etheral vocal on top of Sky Was Pink or Do You Need Help and tell me what you get.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

In addition to '100th Window', Spacek's a good example of someone who took trip-hop template but replaced sampled/live drums with electronic beats.

Groove Armada only have ONE trip-hoppish song tho!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

there's a downtempo mix of 'The Sky Is Pink' anyway isn't there? or was that the original?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

Any love for Lamb?

― Ned Beauman (NedBeauman), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

First album = three or four good tracks. She sings well on it.

Second album = rubbish. She doesn't sing very well on it.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

It was only good when it simmered with evil really, which only about 2% of it did. What about trip-crunk as a modern day update? Or does skrewed/chopped fit that bill?

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

Actually that DJ Shadow track with David Banner is a bit trip-crunk.

― Ned Beauman (NedBeauman), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

anyone have Slotek's 7 album? is that trip-hop? i dunno
that was pretty good

― Matthew OMalley (Matt-O), Friday, 16 June 2006 23:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

you need a shortlist of music that is unlikely to irritate people excessively in a social setting. otm.

Tricky
Steely Dan
Velvet Underground
Sade


and if you don't like Sade... pfff!

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 17 June 2006 05:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

My most consistent having-people-over CD for the past year has been Eskimo Recordings Volume III. Also Lhasa's The Living Road.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 17 June 2006 06:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

you need a shortlist of music that is unlikely to irritate people excessively in a social setting

About 80% of reggae. anyone who actively dislikes reggae is obviously just wrong.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

not that i'm a huge reggae expert if someone didn't like reggae i'd have to wonder what the hell they were doing in my house!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 June 2006 11:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

re: four tet dj kicks.
cabaret voltaire and mf doom? i'm there.

this is a very interesting thread.

― Emily B (Emily B), Saturday, 17 June 2006 14:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

VU 'unlikely to irritate people in a social setting'?

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― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Monday, 19 June 2006 10:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

this Four Tet DJ Kicks is actually quite amazingly poorly mixed. obviously with a tracklisting like that i wouldn't expect seamless but the segues are terrible for the most part. i'ts not even like an anti-mix-mash it just sounds amateurish. i could have done a much better job myself with similar material.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

I was listening to Tricky's "Broken Homes" today b/c I'm making a mix for a friend who likes Burial and wants to know what music it sounds like. What a great track. I want a whole album of tracks like "Broken Homes" and "Poems". Does this album exist and what is it?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

i wish!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

Seriously, I find it hard to think of similar stuff.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

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It scares me that I understand what this means.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

The first two Lamb album and the last one are all good. The third... is there.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

I love the first one. I think they were victims of their own success though maybe - it seemed like they kept wanting to rewrite "Gorecki" and forgot about "Godbless", "Gold" and "Cotton Wool".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

I don't think you can really say that "Ear Parcel", "Softly", "B-Line" or "Little Things" (to pick 4 awesome songs off the second album) were anywhere near the vein of "Gorecki".

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 14:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

No I meant the third/fourth album more (though I heard the former only twice and the latter only once I think). Fear of Fours is in the right vein I pretty good, but I feel like the group were already beginning to compartmentalise things, like "here is a wacky track with an odd time signature, now here is a soothing meditative track". On the big tracks on the debut it all comes together quite magically.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 19 June 2006 15:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

Well, the third album doesn't really gel at all; the fourth one does pretty much do what your talking about but in a much more restrained, introverted manner (the thing about "Gorecki" was that it really exploded out into a frenzy once the full force of the track kicked in, whereas most of the stuff on album #4 was really aiming for the tiny-voice-of-yr-subconscious vibe of "Feela").

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 June 2006 15:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

with this thread spinning around i saw this in the racks yesterday : http://www.joeybeats.com/irb.html anyone heard this ? the mp3 sounds lovely ..

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 06:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...
I can feel it getting closer...

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

It will be good, providing they pick out all the decent menacing/evil stuff not the dreck downtempo stuff that later mutated into chillout/dire chin stroking bollocks.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

Clear by Bomb the Bass is the only trip hop album I still listen to regularly. Sounds totally dated but never boring.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

Am I completely off base in thinking that TV On The Radio IS a trip-hop revival?

― Vornado (Vornado), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yes.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

5 years pass...

I'm really loving Yppah's album Eighty One:

― 圧迫系プレイ (Sanpaku), Thursday, 1 November 2012 21:27 (6 months ago) Permalink

for the first time in ages, i listened to skylab #2 today.

sounded absolutely fantastic.

make of that what you will.

― mark e, Thursday, 1 November 2012 21:35 (6 months ago) Permalink

it's an absolutely fantastic album, one of a kind unfortunately

"root lets you speak with the dead"

― the late great, Friday, 2 November 2012 19:12 (6 months ago) Permalink

I just wanna say that Moloko comp mentioned way upthread is one of the greatest things ever assembled

― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, 2 November 2012 19:14 (6 months ago) Permalink

No. Trip Hop has had it's time - Garage Hip - House is the new thing.

― Hinklepicker, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:11 (6 months ago) Permalink

Never heard skylab 2 but was into skylab one when i smoked too much weed in high school

― just sayin, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:20 (6 months ago) Permalink


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