Re: Trip hop, please stop

dj bambi (djbambi@hotmail.com)
Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:43:32 PDT

WARNING: "ME TOO" POST! Early La Funk Mob on Mo'Wax in 94, such
as La Doctoresse (which I actually have on a french white label from
'93 too), or some of the Chem (then Dust) Bros from back then,
and such stuff as the excellent Cloak&Dagger label used to define
the Tr*p-H*p term for me. But I just had to stop using it when
every CocteauTwin-like vocals with a drum machine would be labeled
trip-hop, from Portishead to White Dove or something like that via
many other stuff that have nothing to do with hip-hop in the first
place and don't sound too trippy (although they are probably good
"bad trip" material) to me.
"They" had ripped us of of our label, leaving us confused as to
what to call our music. The tr*p-h*p term was now associated with
something new. Some record labels even started denying the term,
for example React for their "Dope on Plastics vol. 1" mentioned
"don't call it trip-hop" on the sleeve, and I can understand why.

Ahhh, this subject will never get old :) I can remember the exact
same thread 2+ years ago.

And I would most definitely classify Tek9 as better trip-hop than
Portishead :)

peace,

dj bambi

>From: tim@vivid-edge.co.uk
>>When i hear the word Trip Hop used i automaticly think of Massive
>>Attack, Tricky and Portishead...guess i can blame the mainstream press
>>for that.
>funny, because when I hear the term trip hop, I always think of tracks
by
>Palmskin Productions, Le Funk Mob, DJ Shadow, Tranquility Base - Mo'Wax
>stuff. Spliff heavy nodding tunes.
>Tricky and Portishead were just extremely fashionable for a few weeks
in
>1995, a while after trip hop had come and gone - they caught a wave, a
mood
>at that time that - retro, dirty, nihilistic, morose, second-hand. A
>profitable meeting between grunge, soul, hip-hop and ganja.
>Thing is, I didn't like either of those first two albums, because at
the
>time I felt jungle offered more...but I'm still fascinated by the
artists
>mentioned in the first paragraph.
>Would anyone classify Tek 9 as trip hop (e.g. 'Phat like a bomb' from
'It's
>not what you think it is")? Some of their tracks have all the
necessary.

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