A while back, thanks to some friends from another board (Rave Recordings), I came to discover some stuff in this unknown territory for me until then, and I really liked what I heard. After this I ended up getting some discs by Zero 7 (Simple Things & When It Falls), Conjure One (self titled), Balligomingo (Beneath the Surface) and Delerium (Karma, Poem & Chimera). All them awesome to me. :thmbsp:

Today I discovered another great group, called Lesiem. Got the cd Mystic Spirit Voices, and it's awesome!!! Kind of a mix of Gregorian chants with eletronica, with some brilliant guitar work that reminds Pink Floyd a lot!!! I need to get more of this Lesiem stuff. :thmbsp: :yes:

Who else into this kind of stuff?

Demetrio.

Massive Attack, known has the fathers of Trip-Hop.

Portishead.
Lamb.
Mandalay.
Tricky.
De-Phazz.
Craig Armstrong.
Anthea.
Pelican City.
Flunk.
Patrick Wolf.

Chill out. :thmbsp:
clint.

I'm slightly familar with some of the bands Clint mentioned. Ok, one of them. I do recall that I liked it a lot. Interesting. I might have to look into this...

Ed

(edit- is that an eddie edit?)

Ok, I just went to AMG all music and checked out a couple of things. Portishead is the one I knew. Listened to a little Massive Attack and Sneaker Pimps.

I like it. To be honest, while Massive Attack seems to be credited with creating the genre, I wasn't wild about what I heard there.

Reminds me of a techno version of "shoe gazer" music. I'm pretty into that. It's like My Bloody Valentine with a drum and bass beat.

Sorry,
i forgot a very important French band : Air. :thmbsp:

clint.

Reminds me of a techno version of "shoe gazer" music. I'm pretty into that. It's like My Bloody Valentine with a drum and bass beat.

:thmbsp: :thmbsp:

clint.

I'd probably put Morcheeba into the 'Trip Hop' catagory.

X

i occasionally enjoy listening to my older trip hop lp's, but as a genre, it is at least temporarily 'over'. it now awaits a ten-fifteen year period of rest before being rediscovered again in the future, kind of like 80's electro has been rediscovered in the last few years (ladytron, fischerspooner, etc) and lately, post punk (where do you start? uh, how about the bravery?).

some of my all time fave down tempo is by kruder and dorfmeister, tosca (a side project of kruder's, or is it dorfmeister's), and the never to be overlooked thievery corporation.

I found another band that sounds quiet good:

Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic. :thmbsp:

clint.

innaresting, clint, i just ordered that cd .....

Hey shrinkboy,

I knew it,that's why i put that post. :D

Vaya con Dios
clint.

Hmm, I missed this thread the first go around. I do enjoy listening to trip-hop quite often and for a brief spell a while back, it was my main genre. Other groups worthy of note for this genre are as follows:

Sneaker Pimps
Hooverphonic
Goldfrapp
Supreme Beings of Leisure
Mandalay
Alphawezen
Hector Zazou
Lunik
Thievery Corporation
Splashdown (maybe)
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (maybe)
Cocteau Twins
Deep Forest (maybe)
Era (maybe)
Enigma (should count)
Gotan Project
Jem
Tosca

Since you've already headed the Delerium route, which was my favorite group for a while, maybe your tastes will head in the same direction as mine to the Opera variant of trip-hop. To this very small genre, there are a few notable members. Emma Shapplin is on the very edge, but some of the remixes available are certainly trip-hop-esque. The Operatica series of collections certainly are trip-hop in style and Sasha Lazard has her moments as well.

Hope this helps in your search for music.
- JP

Muchas gracias,Charivari.

clint.

I have listen this weekend in a friend's house a beautiful sound from a new band : _Melampyre. :thmbsp:

Clint.

Hmm, I missed this thread the first go around. I do enjoy listening to trip-hop quite often and for a brief spell a while back, it was my main genre. Other groups worthy of note for this genre are as follows:

Hector Zazou

Hey JP, Zazou is a name you don't see too often mentioned in trip hop talks. Actually, it's a name you don't see mentioned very often in any music talks, except when I'm talking it seems, and you too I guess. But coincidentally, a few years ago I was putting togther a Trip Hop compilation just for fun and for a couple friends and wanted to make it a mix of both popular and somewhat obscure artists, so one of the tracks I used was "Pandas In Tandem" from the album Glyph by Hector Zazou and Harold Budd. Also coincidentally, right now I'm drinking some coffee and listening to Harold Budd's excellent last album, Avalon Sutra. That trip hop compilation went like this ...

1. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy from Blue Lines
2. Laika - Prarie Dog from Sounds of the Satellites
3. DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World from Entroducing
4. Tricky - Suffocated Love from Maxinquaye
5. Portishead - Roads from Dummy
6. Bjork - Hyper-Ballad from Post
7. One Dove - White Love from Morning Dove White
8. Kid Loco - Love Me Sweet from Grand Love Story
9. Hector Zazou / Harold Budd - Pandas In Tandem from Glyph
10. Ruby - Paraffin from Salt Peter
11. Skylab - Seashell from #1
12. Bowery Electric - Psalms of Survival from Lushlife
13. The Dandy Warhols - Sleep from Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
14. Beth Orton - Stars All Seem To Weep from Central Reservation
15. Cibo Matto - Sunday Part 1 & 2 from Stereo Type A

I just wish I knew what "trip-hop" or "shoe-gazer" means. "Chill-out" I think I understand, but do I really? I enjoy chilling out, so would I like trip hop or shoe-gazer music?

The only names I'm even familiar with from these lists are Beth Orton (whom I enjoy immensly) and Zero 7 (very limited exposure). And it seems I have a Rave Rec comp or three that has a Hooverphonic tune on them, but I'll have to check to be sure.

So much music, so little musical knowledge......

JDaniel

I just wish I knew what "trip-hop" or "shoe-gazer" means. "Chill-out" I think I understand, but do I really? I enjoy chilling out, so would I like trip hop or shoe-gazer music?

So much music, so little musical knowledge......

JDaniel

Hey,JDaniel
First let me say that you have an excellent taste in music.I know it from your music posts.
Trip-Hop is just a "minor" class of music compared to the kind of music you normaly listen to.Trip-hop is known for its moody, dark, yet lyrical sound.

The trip-hop sound relies on jazz samples, usually taken from old vinyl jazz records. This reliance on sampling has changed the way record labels deal with clearing samples for use in other people's tracks. Trip-hop tracks often sample Rhodes pianos, saxophones, trumpets, and flutes, and develops in parallel to hip hop, each inspiring the other.

Trip-hop production is historically lo-fi, relying on analog recording equipment and instrumentation for an ambience. Portishead, for example, record their material to old tape from real instruments, and then sample :naughty: their recordings rather than recording their instruments directly to a track. They also tend to put their drums through considerable compression.

Later, artists such as Glideascope have taken inspiration from many other sources including world and orchestral influences. :thmbsp:

Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound) is a term coined by United Kingdom dance magazine Mixmag, to describe a musical trend in the mid-1990s; trip hop is downtempo electronic music that grew out of England's hip hop and house scenes. Characterized by a reliance on breakbeats and a sample-heavy sound pioneered by Coldcut's remix of Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid in Full", trip hop gained notice via popular artists such as Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky, and rock-influenced sound groups such as Ruby, California's DJ Shadow, and the UK's Howie B. :thmbsp:

Enjoy
clint.

I forgot to mention Shoegazer music.

Shoegazer was a brief rock n roll movement out of northern England in the early 90s. Or maybe it started in 1988. I just really like the music and but i am not in any way a music historian, so please keep it mind.
The epicenter of the thundering wall-of-sound shoegazer was Manchester. Why? I think because that's were the Stone Roses are from. They were gods. They could do no wrong. They were the resurrection. I adored them. Then they released "Second Coming." :thumbsdn:
Some Shoegazer bands that matters :My Bloody Valentine, Curve and The Verve. :thmbsp:

Have fun.
clint