You’ll Learn

• How trip-hop emerged from Bristol’s multicultural underground and sound systems
• The role of landmark artists like Massive Attack, Portishead, and Tricky
• Key production practices: sampling, low-tempo beats, dub-inspired bass and mood

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https://youtu.be/4ay0HS8iWrI

Trip Hop 1993–1997 — the years that defined the sound.
Bristol roots, slow beats, cinematic moods, and albums that shaped trip-hop as a genre and a mindset. A deep dive into its formative era.

🔗 https://www.alltriphop.com/2026/01/trip-hop-19931997.html

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Up, Bustle And Out – One Colour Just Reflects Another (1996)
A Bristol classic where trip hop, downtempo, jazz and Latin influences merge into a cinematic, genre-free sound. Warm beats, live instrumentation and global rhythms define one of the most distinctive electronic albums of the 90s.
https://www.alltriphop.com/2025/12/up-bustle-and-out-one-colour-just.html

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Turns out there's some controversy over the #TripHop label.

The most prominent artists (Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky) have expressed their critical views of the name due to how it was sold by the press as a British "improvement" over American hip hop.

From: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/abs/just-dont-call-it-trip-hop-reconciling-the-bristol-sound-style-with-the-trip-hop-genre/B4944FEFB7C30977DA7CF0CB3AC07465

#GenreOfTheWeek is #BristolSound a.k.a. #TripHop

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