He has writing credits on Enjoy and Headphones - I never knew that
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I’d possibly include Yasmine Hamdan in the trip hop revival category.
Her latest album is brilliant.
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This is new to me and really good, thanks for sharing
The Saffron Bloom album from this year is decent
and a DJ Krush/Shadow classic:
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I may have been one of them. I loved it in the 90s but that stuff mostly hasn’t aged well for me. I think there was a ton of novelty at work propping up the initial wave.
Have recently been listening to Portishead’s S/T which I had always neglected, it’s brillaint. Trip-Hop was something I liked the idea of in the 90s but never really got into it at the time. Liked what I heard of Portishead but never purchased the albums at the time as the band’s ubiquity put me off, didn’t really get into them until Third.
Purchased Tricky’s PMT, Angels and Juxatpose and found them all patchy and more hit than miss and gave up on him. Liked the sound of Massive Attack but not the songs if that makes sense.
Really loved the song I heard on the 1998 Great Expectations trailer but didn’t find out who it was - Mono, until many years later online. They did one album - Formica Blues in 97.
I became aware of a certain degree of snootiness about the genre, not sure when, possibly online in the 00s. I was never quite certain who was in genre, the bands I’ve listed and Morcheeba I guess. I had heard of the likes of Nightmare on Wax and others but didn’t know they were Trip-Hop.
That’s a cracker of an album. There’s a bunch of remixes that came out on 10"s at the time which are great too. There was a couple of Propellerheads ones on there, and a lovely lush drum & bass remix of High Life too
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Egg Merto
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A delicious dish
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A few faves…
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CHOON!
I unabashedly love Trip Hop.
Lots of great recommendations here. Also wanted to share some love for Attica Blues.
And Japanese beat makers Silent Poets who were doing this so well in the late 90s.
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Also the swiftly defunct Tricky-adjacent band from Bristol, The Baby Namboos. Loved their one and only album.
This track gets me every time.
Also the one off album DJ Krush with a couple of other fellow Japanese artists called Ryu, which had this absolute gem on it.
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Adjacent to, but not quite in the same ballpark, was that whole Rae&Christian, K&D Sessions, Cinematic Orchestra stuff.
And this masterpiece, from Ninja Tunes’ Xen Cuts compilation
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Possibly slightly overlooked that the 2-Tone / Ska revivalist bands of the late 70’s / early 80’s, whilst striving to do something new on their 2nd albums, whilst also reflecting the mood of the U.K. at the time - stumbled into creating the roots of Trip-Hop?
Actually, having listened back this evening, I do think a lot of this stuff falls under the jazzier end of the trip-hop umbrella, even if it didn’t come from Bristol:
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