Can somebody recommend some good trip hop to me?

pjoasisrule

I have some Massive Attack, some Sneaker Pimps, and Zero 7. Anything else up to the quality of these?

OneLove

In a word... no

I LOVE protection...what a wonderful piece of art.

I will dig through some of my old stuff and see if anything jumps out at me.

If you are looking for some more upbeat less hip hopish stuff, check out BT.

Igottago

Tricky - A Ruff Guide
DJ Shadow - Live..In tune and on time
Massive Attack - pretty much everything they've done
Burial - Burial
Burial - Untrue

The Burial albums are more recent and are great.

I've never heard any Zero 7, i'll check them out.

LONGRD

both the Handsome Boy Modeling School albums are amazing. I'm not sure if it's trip ho though. it's like collaboration alternative-hip hop.

pjoasisrule

LongRd. wrote:

both the Handsome Boy Modeling School albums are amazing. I'm not sure if it's trip ho though. it's like collaboration alternative-hip hop.

Nope not trip hop

elmer

Well really y'know "trip-hop" was just some Londonistic-tag created by journalists in the 90's for certain types of demograph to understand, as in music that fuses elements of hip-hop, dub, reggae, soul, industrial and techno. That's what I thought anyway, then dull bands like Morcheeba rode into town along with the Mezzanine album and created a blueprint that had its roots more in dinner-parties than hip-hop.

TRICKY - MAXINQUAYE. From the said Trip-hop-Triptych that also comprises Massive Attack and Portishead, this solid fuckin' masterpiece is the only album needed brother! You've maybe heard Adrian Thaws on the first two Massive Attack releases but he'd been stifled by compromise there, his genius emerging on Maxinquaye, his debut, and near creating a genre of his own. He can't really sing but the raspy voice conveys laid back and menacing at the same time like no other I've heard, balanced by the sexy-as-fuck coy soul of Martina Topley Bird over some kind of post-apocalyptic soundscape of tribal beats. I can't do it justice in description, to me it seemed at the time like it came from a future city that'd been carpet-bombed and these were its survivors, haunted by dark secrets and roaming the debris........ Don't get me wrong, it does have some relatively upbeat numbers too and sounds a bit similar to Massive Attack in a way, only with a darker, more foreboding atmostphere.

Black Steel:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wu8LpalUelY

Ponderosa:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ekpn4mmv9L0

Overcome:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6V26zxH_JMk

No one to me, not even the man himself, has touched this gorgeous, spooky spell again. Been listening to his latest release over the last couple of days so Maxinquaye has resurfaced again in my mind, probably level with Ten in the effect it had over me.

reeferchief

elmer wrote:

Well really y'know "trip-hop" was just some Londonistic-tag created by journalists in the 90's for certain types of demograph to understand, as in music that fuses elements of hip-hop, dub, reggae, soul, industrial and techno. That was what I thought anyway, then dull bands like Morcheeba rode into town and created a blueprint that had its roots more in dinner-parties than hip-hop.

TRICKY - MAXINQUAYE. From the said Trip-hop-Triptych that also comprises Massive Attack and Portishead, this solid fuckin' masterpiece is the only album needed brother! You've probably heard Adrian Thaws on the first two Massive Attack albums but he saved up his genius for this, his debut, creating a genre of his own. He can't really sing but his raspy voice conveys laid back and menacing at the same time like no other I've ever heard, this balanced by the sexy-as-fuck coy soul of Martina Topley Bird over some kind of post-apocalyptic soundscape of tribal beats. I can't do it justice in description, only, to me it seemed at the time like this came from a future city that'd been carpet-bombed and these were its survivors, haunted by dark secrets and roaming the debris........ Don't get me wrong, it does have some relatively upbeat numbers too and sounds a bit similar to Massive Attack in a way, only with a darker, foreboding atmostphere.

Black Steel:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wu8LpalUelY

Ponderosa:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ekpn4mmv9L0

Overcome:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6V26zxH_JMk

No one, to me, not even the man himself, touched this gorgeous, spooky spell again. Been listening to his latest release over the last couple of days so Maxinquaye has resurfaced again in my mind, probably level with Ten in the effect it had over me.

Bristols finest Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead, add Roni Size to that list as well although more rooted in Drum and Bass excellent music never the less.

caifan82

The Gathering (http://www.gathering.nl)

hoopinman

not really trip hop but 18th Street Lounge Music incorporates all the aspects of trip hop...its run by the Guys from Theivery Corporation...anything from their label is ok in my book

http://www.eslmusic.com/

mole1985

Portishead - Dummy

I think it's pretty essential.