when will the holy ghost trip-hop be alive again??

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Been listening to DJ Krush "zen", heard some new 45's by some friends and I'm thinking why is this stuff bein' dissed. No reasons. Ohhh...I get it! Were watching indie shit like Prefuse.

― little johnny at the hospital (cs appleby), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

yeh i was reminsicing about seing morcheeba and attica blues last night LOL

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link

i hope The Sandals reform!

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

You want to listen to the new Roots Manuva album...sounds very 1995 in places.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link

When we're sure Dido will never again record a note.

― BARMS, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:13 (eighteen years ago) link

you're gonna have to wait for this acid house revival to die down...give it 4 months

― b b, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

The trouble with trip-hop was/is that its sound was/is so easily hijacked.

Not unlike like the rest of electronic music circa the turn of our century that was (or can be) diluted through mass appeal.

― sneekycheeks (nader), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

trip it low:
http://www.infratunes.com/musique/mega-image/Diplo_Florida.jpg

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

That's not to say, however, that reading Marcello's Roots Manuva comment above doesn't make me all the more intrigued and likely to purchase Awfully Deep.

― sneekycheeks (nader), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"all the more intrigued by and likely to purchase"

― sneekycheeks (nader), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Marcello otm. I haven't put my finger on exactly how yet, but Awfully Deep makes me think of Maxinquaye a lot.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the answer to the thread question is: "When Portishead finally release their third album."

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Isn't it Rodney's 'soul-bearing' record?

x-men

― BARMS, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

the answer to the question is when you meet up with satan in hell

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

A SMOKING BONG LADEN WITH DARK AND PARANOID BEATS

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I recently listened to some Nightmares on Wax albums for the first time. Does this count? Their DJ Kicks reminded me a lot of Mark Farina's Mushroom Jazz mixes, but I don't know if that's really trip-hop.

Also, hearing "Rise" was very strange. I'm almost positive I've heard it like a thousand times years and years ago, but I can't place it. My guess is either it was on some generic trip-hop comp CD my brother bought and I borrowed, or it was played a lot on whatever live365 station I used to listen to.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

mo wax heads sampler in the record store I used to work at in the 90s. Ahh....the memories.

― wordyrappington (wordyrappington), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Isn't that "bong laden" quote reserved for No U Turn? smiley face.

― little johnny at the hospital (cs appleby), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I never want to hear any of this music again.

There's that trip-hoppish song (Who Pays The Bills) that almost ruins the Ada album. *shudder*

― just adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Adam, Never?

― little johnny at the hospital (cs appleby), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link

it is trip-hoppish!! good call adam

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

'Trip-Hop' is a terrible term to begin with, which makes it easily dissable. Maybe it sounded cool at the time, sort of like 'alternative rock', but it's certainly due for a comeback, under a different heading.

― Jena (JenaP), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Someone talk to me about trip-hop being dead, stagnant, out of fashion, played-out etc.

OK, since the topic interested me, I searched ILM and found that there is plenty of great discussion on this topic already in a more general sense (or as it applies to, for example, dnb). Still, any trip-hop specific comments? Was there a scene that birthed it or did it give birth to a scene? Can anyone pick a turning point where people/artists started to lose interest? Or is it not really dead at all -- am I being mislead by the fact that it is largely ignored or dismissed offhand in the music-related writing/criticism I read?

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

er, xpost

Jena's and sneeky's comments are a good start

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

btw Marcello..I'm lovin what I hear from Roots Manuva. I've been a smart sucker for that guy for a long time now.

― little johnny at the hospital (cs appleby), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

there is no better heading. except maybe....ILLBIENT

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Trip-hop was my Britpop when I was 15, so I don't think of it in a negative light at all: the big trip-hop acts just aren't as awful as the big Britpop ones in hindsight (ts: Portishead vs Oasis HAHAHAHA) and even the more embarrassing also-rans aren't that bad - I still maintain that Olive had two awesome singles. Er, who else was there? Lamb, Earthling, Nicolette, second Shara Nelson album, Morcheeba, Ragga & The Jack Magic Orchestra, Ingrid Schroeder, Coco & The Bean, I'm sure I'm forgetting loads.

I always thought of Laika as trip-hop since I got into them at the same time and enjoyed them for the same reasons.

Moloko got bracketed as trip-hop with their first album, wtf.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 17 March 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

top 10 trip hop albums that pwn the rest of your shitty cd collection

wagon christ - throbbing pouch
urban tribe - collapse of modern culture
la funk mob - the bad seeds 93-97
nightmares on wax - smoker's delight
sabres of paradise - haunted dancehall
skylab - #1
reflection - the errornormous world
depth charge - lust vol 1
fila brazillia - maim that tune
as one - planetary folklore

ok mind you i didn't even mention air, portishead, tricky, massive attack, compilations, mixes, etc etc

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

or are we talking about post-portishead downtempo music with a requisite female singer? because by and large a lot of that stuff does suck.

tho i have a soft spot for coco&the bean and i really like their compilation "blunted" that came out on shadow...

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Can anyone pick a turning point where people/artists started to lose interest? Or is it not really dead at all

well, honestly i think really the conditions of possibility weren't really there for the style post 9/11

but i think M.I.A. is bringing it back!

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link

vahid OTM up there. is blunted the all scottish acts one vahid?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 17 March 2005 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

M.I.A, hmmm. I completely missed the connection.

― when will the holy ghost trip-hop be alive again?? (cs appleby), Thursday, 17 March 2005 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link

i was being completely facetious in that post =(

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Heehee don't sweat it.
What's Urban Tribe??

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Thursday, 17 March 2005 08:03 (eighteen years ago) link

urban tribe may have been on mo wax but i don't really think its trip hop? its REALLY BENT detroit shit.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 17 March 2005 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link

also not sure that as one disc qualifies? or the sabres disc.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 17 March 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Haunted Dancehall qualifies even though Weatherall is a champion genre money jumper. That's a fat album.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Thursday, 17 March 2005 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link

oh for god's sake IT QUALIFIES

thank god i didn't go with my original plan of including boards of canada

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link

DOES NOT :P

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 17 March 2005 09:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i think i still owe you an idjut boys mix!

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 09:46 (eighteen years ago) link

thats right! but is it trip hop?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 17 March 2005 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link

it is trip-disco

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 17 March 2005 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link

good. its the hop that clunks.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 17 March 2005 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a track on music television that samples portishead, but the burning question is: AMYL HOUSE: WHITHER?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 17 March 2005 10:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Trip-Gabba

― wo ist meine koybords? (Lynskey), Thursday, 17 March 2005 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i was wondering what happened to Earthling after listening to 'Nefisa' again the other day. he was a good lyricist, maybe even better than Tricky but lacking the 'throat'...

it would've been great to hear original rhymes over tracks like Sabres 'Bubble & Slide', great track to mix stuff over

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i know it's not trip hop but it reminds me of metalheadz (and oh boy!) david holmes at times: horsepower productions "at the rescue." i don't know if i should get their first album as idon't know how it compares to that one.

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Thursday, 17 March 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link

oh there's a new earthling record out... i think... well, i have one in my itunes. didn't strike me as good as the other one...

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Thursday, 17 March 2005 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Skrunchfaceprojects.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Thursday, 17 March 2005 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link

eighteen years pass...

In the past 3-5 years I’ve noticed a surge in 90’s revival and trip hop influenced artists.

Billie Eilish, ASO, Tirzah, Bea1991, George Clanton, James K, Hatchie, Doss, Jorja Smith, Elaine Howley, Men I Trust, Nosaj Thing, Christine and the Queens…

Here’s a playlist with some selections (not everything is strictly triphop but most is):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/44oDEZiTjrIung29WSxRAn

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 16 November 2023 14:47 (three weeks ago) link

My son recommended Whatitdo Archive Group to me, who are maybe more aligned with lounge revival or soundtrack/library music but there's trip hop in there as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFc_jMlaeBY

― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 16 November 2023 15:30 (three weeks ago) link

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