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Trip-hop music is widely considered to be part of electronic music. However, unlike most sub-genres of electronic music, trip-hop has a mostly organic sound that rarely puts emphasis on electronic instruments. At first, bands like Portishead have been considered ‘alternative rock’ in the lack of a term like trip-hop; however, the message of most trip-hop music is different from the message of most rock music. Also, guitars aren’t used often and, when they are used, they are used in a moderate proportion, whilst drums and vocals are the main instruments. Trip-hop couldn’t be considered pop music, as most trip-hop music hasn’t reached enough popularity, while popular bands like Massive Attack aren’t associated with pop music.
Trip-hop is considered to be a very abused tag, used for artists that couldn’t be considered ‘trip-hop’. After the initial success generated by Portishead’s Dummy album, in the mid-/late ’90s discussion took place on the subject of so-called ‘trip-hop’ bands using the Portishead formula without presenting enough innovations to be considered not clones.
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| Saturday 11 October 2008 | ||
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Westheimer Block Party at 300-500 Block of Westheimer
Voxtrot, Alex C, Noon, Magnetic, Hero, Kam, The Mathletes, Awake |
300-500 Block of Westheimer Houston, United States |
8 people attended |
| Brazilian Girls |
The Note West Chester, PA, United States |
2 people attended |
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The Egg
Orchard Lounge |
Martyrs' Chicago, United States |
1 person attended |
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Westheimer Block Party at 300-500 Block of Westheimer
Voxtrot, Alex C, Noon, Magnetic, Kam, The Mathletes, Awake, Bear Claw |
300-500 Block of Westheimer Houston, United States |
3 people attended |
| Today (Sunday 12 October 2008) | ||
| Natalie Walker |
Comet Tavern Seattle, United States |
2 people attending |
| Tomorrow (Monday 13 October 2008) | ||
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Brazilian Girls
damn right |
Sonar Baltimore, United States |
1 person attending |
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Gaand wrote:
Exactly! Portishead>Radiohead [4]
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yuriesposito wrote:
portishead>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>radiohead
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he-war wrote:
BJORK! whatever. still love her tho, but she aint trip-hop
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coolcat77 wrote:
portishead>radiohead [2]
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Celeritas wrote:
If someone says 'only female vocals', they haven't listened to enough trip-hop. It's a huge genre.
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better-than-bad wrote:
Hey check it out *Better Than Bad*
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i0Nic wrote:
Oh and down-tempo for sure, definitely a slower beat. Music is more melodic and soulful than other forms of electronica I find.
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i0Nic wrote:
trip-hop is the type of music I listen to when I want to open my mind or just chill out to when I go to bed. A bit of massive attack or portishead is where it's at. I agree with others here that I would classify it as experimental electronica with a dash of jazz and hip-hop, and while I love the combo of trip-hop with female vocals, I don't think female vocals are necessary to be classified as trip-hop. No way.
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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
How can Vespertine or stuff like Hunter or the video version of All Is Full of Love not be trip-hop?... That being said, defining trip-hop is almost always subject to failure. Trip-hop is a mood or a movement rather than a genre. You feel something is trip-hop rather than defining it. So stop lumping it with hip-hop or acid jazz. It isn't hip-hop (where's the attitude, the message of hip-hop?)) and it isn't acid jazz either.
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Makkelijk wrote:
There's absolutely no reason to say trip hop has anything to do with female voices. I mean, massave attack doesn't use female voices very often and they kind of started it. When defining useless genres like triphop you can just say "it's kind of a merge between A and B" Where in this case A is hiphop and B is acid jazz. And since hiphop usually uses rap vocals and acid jazz uses female vocals often both of them work pretty well on triphop beats.
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Gaand wrote:
Trip Hop is the best genre of music. Trip Hop is dark version of electronic with hip hop beats and female voices.
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willarnett wrote:
Trip Hop is sex. Amazing. Tha end.
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emerica171 wrote:
no eumaios, just...no
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jackpatrick wrote:
bjork is has her fair sher of trip hop, keep in mind she has quite a range in her back catologue.
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Appers wrote:
I'm just sayin', trip-hop isn't just dark, downtempo electronica, it's dark, downtempo electronica which is heavily influenced by hip-hop.
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Appers wrote:
Anyone else think describing Bjork as trip-hop is ridiculous? Experimental electronica does not trip-hop make, like, at ALL. Bjork is about as far from hip-hop as it's possible to get. Going out with Tricky for 2 months doesn't make an artist change genres!
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ihavesoldout wrote:
Kan vi inte göra en grej på trip-hop?
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eumaios wrote:
portishead>radiohead
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Tipheret wrote:
This is the genre that haves most artists I am not sure if I like or not: sometimes I love the music and others I find that same music boring as hell. Oh so unsure...
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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
Just bumping my poetic definition of trip-hop: In fact, my real definition of trip-hop would be this: Trip-hop is the sound of a postmodern soul on an empty midnight street under the utopic rays of far stars... I haven't taken this from any book or anything like that, I thought about it last winter when listening to tracks like DJ Krush's Crimson.
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