Trip hop
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| - | "One influence came from [[Gary Clail]]'s [[Tackhead]] soundsystem. Clail often worked with former [[The Pop Group]] singer [[Mark Stewart (musician)|Mark Stewart]]. The latter experimented with his band Mark Stewart & the Maffia, which consisted of New York [[session musician]]s [[Skip McDonald]], [[Doug Wimbish]], and [[Keith LeBlanc]], who had been a part of the house band for the [[Sugar Hill Records (rap)|Sugarhill Records]] [[record label]]. Produced by [[Adrian Sherwood]], the music combined hip hop with experimental rock and dub and sounded like a premature version of what later became trip hop." --Sholem Stein | + | "One influence on [[trip hop]] came from a combination of the [[Tackhead]] sound system, [[On-U Sound Records]], [[Mark Stewart (musician)|Mark Stewart]] and [[Adrian Sherwood]] who combined [[hip hop]] with [[experimental rock]] and [[dub music]]." --Sholem Stein |
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| Deriving from later idioms of [[acid house]], the term was first used by the British music media to describe the more [[experimental music|experimental]] variant of [[breakbeat]] emerging from the [[Bristol Sound]] scene in the early 1990s, which contained influences of [[soul music|soul]], funk, and jazz. It was pioneered by acts like [[Massive Attack]], [[Tricky (musician)|Tricky]], and [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]]. Trip hop achieved commercial success in the 1990s, and has been described as "Europe's alternative choice in the second half of the '90s." | Deriving from later idioms of [[acid house]], the term was first used by the British music media to describe the more [[experimental music|experimental]] variant of [[breakbeat]] emerging from the [[Bristol Sound]] scene in the early 1990s, which contained influences of [[soul music|soul]], funk, and jazz. It was pioneered by acts like [[Massive Attack]], [[Tricky (musician)|Tricky]], and [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]]. Trip hop achieved commercial success in the 1990s, and has been described as "Europe's alternative choice in the second half of the '90s." | ||
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Trip hop (sometimes used synonymously with "downtempo") is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. It has been described as "a fusion of hip hop and electronica until neither genre is recognizable", and may incorporate a variety of styles, including funk, dub, soul, psychedelia, R&B, and house, as well as other forms of electronic music. Trip hop can be highly experimental.
Deriving from later idioms of acid house, the term was first used by the British music media to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat emerging from the Bristol Sound scene in the early 1990s, which contained influences of soul, funk, and jazz. It was pioneered by acts like Massive Attack, Tricky, and Portishead. Trip hop achieved commercial success in the 1990s, and has been described as "Europe's alternative choice in the second half of the '90s."
Common musical aesthetics include a bass-heavy drumbeat, often providing the slowed down breakbeat samples similar to standard 1990s hip hop beats, giving the genre a more psychedelic and mainstream feel.
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