I was at university in Bristol, of all places, from 1991 and somehow I missed seeing any triphop live. I do, however, remember buying the first Portishead album from an indie record shop there and it changing my musical life. I’d never heard sounds quite like it.
That and Maxinquaye are all timers for me. Also Nearly God and Mezzanine. So so good.
Probably my biggest wish list band is Portishead. I had tickets for a Hammersmith show but I couldn’t go because of work, and somehow despite living ten minutes walk away at the time, I didn’t see them at ATP at Ally Pally. I saw their pre-recorded live version of Roads at the Palestine gig the other week and it was amazing. Might be the closest I ever get to see them live.
Can’t think of any other genre that has such a well-established pantheon. Blue Lines, Mezzanine, Dummy and Maxinquay, then everything else (unless we count Entroducing… too)
What do people make of late period Tricky? I’ve actually really enjoyed the last few records he and Marta have done: Fall to Pieces, Lonely Guest, When It’s Going Wrong and the new one Out The Way, think all of these have been around an 8/10 for me which would be a great strike rate for a new artist but think because it’s Tricky, it becomes, well, tricky, because it’s hard not to compare back to what came before.
Kruder & Dorfmeister stuff was called ‘downbeat’ at the time I remember, but as far as I can make out downbeat is basically trip hop but from Vienna. Think them and bands like Thievery Corporation and Cinematic Orchestra still would definitely appeal to people who like trip hop tho
That’s the Bristol sound for sure. Was lots of other stuff going on as well though.
Like people have said upthread, Leila’s Like Weather album, while nothing like as well known, deserves to be considered alongside those as an absolute classic
Currently listening to Walking Wounded by Everything But The Girl. I enjoy some of the sophisti-pop of their earlier stuff, but I enjoy the trip-hop elements on this one more.
it’s where you’re doing some standard human walking on two feet, when out of nowhere something catches one of your feet and you leap up off one foot and land back on that very same foot.
Massive Attack have announced new music next year… not sure if an album or not. They are describing it as a “cache of tracks recently recorded”. So sounds albumy.
One of my favourite groups in any genre, so moderately excited to say the least.
