Essential Trip-Hop albums (hip-hop, psychedelic, rock, genre, Massive Attack)

Vulphus · 12-19-2007, 01:36 PM

Anything Portishead (already mentioned I know but it really is that important). Massive Attack....duhh. Maxinquaye....duhh. And certain bits of Aphex but really, Portishead is the place to start.

PsychosisD · 12-21-2007, 02:46 PM

DJ Shadow
DJ Kush
BassNectar
Nightmares on Wax
UNKLE

**jackhammer** · 12-21-2007, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by PsychosisD

DJ Shadow
DJ Kush
BassNectar
Nightmares on Wax
UNKLE

DJ SHADOW is unclassifiable.
Bass nectar-unknown to me.
Nightmares On Wax are NOT trip hop. Ambient jazz breaks.
UNKLE is hard assed electronica no matter how u listen to it.

PsychosisD · 12-22-2007, 11:19 AM

woah, got my ass kicked.
I disagree with DJ Shadow being unclassifiable tho, he's definitely trip hop to me. Down tempo groove with a heavy hip hop influence and lots of sampling.

You should check out BassNectar, although you'll probably find that they don't classify as TripHop either.

**Seltzer** · 12-22-2007, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Sneaker Pimps-Becoming X (quite heavy in parts though).
Tricky-Maxinquaye.
Nicorette-Eternal Premiere.
Lamb-Fear of Fours.

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

DJ SHADOW is unclassifiable.
Bass nectar-unknown to me.
Nightmares On Wax are NOT trip hop. Ambient jazz breaks.
UNKLE is hard assed electronica no matter how u listen to it.

UNKLE is coming to the Big Day Out so I might check them out.

Have you heard Ulver's Perdition City? It seems to be a mixture of electronica/trip-hop/whatever. I don't listen to enough of that style to know if it would be considered typical for the genre, but I like it. Funny that they used to be a black metal band.

**Urban Hatemonger** · 12-22-2007, 05:32 PM

UNKLE have never really been the same since DJ Shadow quit.

On the other hand he's never been as good since he left UNKLE either.

**jackhammer** · 12-22-2007, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Seltzer

UNKLE is coming to the Big Day Out so I might check them out.

Have you heard Ulver's Perdition City? It seems to be a mixture of electronica/trip-hop/whatever. I don't listen to enough of that style to know if it would be considered typical for the genre, but I like it. Funny that they used to be a black metal band.

Ulver have been popping up all over these forums. The only one I have is A QUICK FIX OF MELANCHOLY which did nothing for me, but I have heard that this band jump genres. However they have to be good at any particular genre they are doing and not genre hopping for the sake of it. i'm going to dig deeper with this band and try to get an overall picture of them.

**Seltzer** · 12-22-2007, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Ulver have been popping up all over these forums. The only one I have is A QUICK FIX OF MELANCHOLY which did nothing for me, but I have heard that this band jump genres. However they have to be good at any particular genre they are doing and not genre hopping for the sake of it. i'm going to dig deeper with this band and try to get an overall picture of them.

Yeah, they're constantly experimenting. Call Perdition City a blind recommendation since I don't know much about the genre - you could either love it or detest it. I haven't listened to A Quick Fix of Melancholy yet. I do prefer their black/folk metal stuff though. Nattens Madrigal was a landmark black metal album.

Frewen · 01-22-2008, 02:49 AM

^Yes! I love the rawness of Nattens Madrigal; the only album that compares (to me) is Marduk's Panzer Division. Ulver are generally awesome: when I first heard Blood Inside, I couldn't stop playing that CD repeatedly.

But on the topic of trip-top, do Red Snapper count? I've gone back through all my old CDs and found a lot of the Warp Records stuff I used to play all the time.

**jackhammer** · 01-22-2008, 02:11 PM

I have never heard Red Snapper. I'm intrigued.

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12-19-2007, 01:36 PM
Vulphus Groupie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 22	Anything Portishead (already mentioned I know but it really is that important). Massive Attack....duhh. Maxinquaye....duhh. And certain bits of Aphex but really, Portishead is the place to start.

12-21-2007, 02:46 PM
PsychosisD Groupie Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 8	DJ Shadow DJ Kush BassNectar Nightmares on Wax UNKLE

12-22-2007, 11:19 AM
PsychosisD Groupie Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 8	woah, got my ass kicked. I disagree with DJ Shadow being unclassifiable tho, he's definitely trip hop to me. Down tempo groove with a heavy hip hop influence and lots of sampling. You should check out BassNectar, although you'll probably find that they don't classify as TripHop either.

12-22-2007, 05:32 PM
Urban Hatemonger Groovy Hate F*ck Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Nuuk , Greenland Posts: 8,941	UNKLE have never really been the same since DJ Shadow quit. On the other hand he's never been as good since he left UNKLE either. __________________

01-22-2008, 02:49 AM
Frewen Justin Broadrick Fanatic Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Reading, UK Posts: 154	^Yes! I love the rawness of Nattens Madrigal; the only album that compares (to me) is Marduk's Panzer Division. Ulver are generally awesome: when I first heard Blood Inside, I couldn't stop playing that CD repeatedly. But on the topic of trip-top, do Red Snapper count? I've gone back through all my old CDs and found a lot of the Warp Records stuff I used to play all the time.

01-22-2008, 02:11 PM
jackhammer A Cabled Discount Join Date: May 2007 Location: U.K Posts: 3,872	I have never heard Red Snapper. I'm intrigued. __________________ My music collection.cough cough enjoy. Ha Ha charade you are. My dvd collection.