Definitely looking forward to checking out this thread some more. I only know a little trip-hop, but what I've heard I love!

Trip Hop is a hugely expansive genre and I'm definitely one for branching out so expect a few curveballs!

As for dubstep. It is definitely an offshoot from Trip hop and has it's roots in Bristol (apart an hour away from me) and the Wild Bunch collective.

nice, in that case i'm really hoping on some emperor penguin hehehe

Looking forward to it.

Well, I'm not very clear on my electronica subgenres at all... would, for example, Dirty Elegance's Finding Beauty In The Wretched fit in here at all, or ninja tunes stuff as instrumental trip hop? This is a genre I've always really wanted to learn more about but never have; I like hip hop, I like electronica, but the fusion of the two seems like it would be ungodly... Like hip hop and jazz for me. The problem is, Mezzanine's not bad but Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead I'm pretty much indifferent to. I don't like the addition of rock influences very much for some reason. The sound just doesn't interest me.

Personally I think dubstep's pretty separate...and already has a thread, right?

Others have mentioned downbeat and Ninja Tunes stuff...I consider some of that to be along the lines of what I consider trip-hop. Basically I'm thinking Prefuse 73 (who I really think was a big inspiration for the recently created "glitch-hop" genre), DJ Shadow, Odd Nosdam, Sixtoo, etc.

Here's his release info on discogs:
DJ Wally Discography at Discogs

As far as where to get some of his music for free...well I only managed to get two of his tracks on soulseek. But it just so happened that it was two of my favorites. If you'd like, I can up them for you. They're exceptional.

I have him as a friend on Myspace and have back/forth'd with him a little, and I'm pretty sure if I pressed him I could find out whether he's got any CD stock, or knows where to get it from, from 99' era, particularly Stoned Ranger. I've been wanting to get it back anyway, so I may do that. If that comes through, I'll up it for sure.

trip hop is terribly hard to define, but however you choose to define it, this should be good. been looking through your music collection, and i like what i see.

might check out Blue Foundation - Eyes On Fire on youtube. good stuff.

i have never heard of triphop before, im interested, very interested :D.

The only trip hop that I know of is Morcheeba and Portishead. I'm also looking forward to this compilation once it's put together.