Is it time for a TRIP HOP revival yet?

- ie chunk of remixes etc .. hang on here's the PR :

To coincide with the release of the fantastic CATALOGUE – BEST OF MOLOKO, Mark Brydon and Roisin Murphy have put together a collection of 3 outstanding remix compilations which will be available as digital only album collections on July 17th 2006.

Each bundle will consist of 2 albums worth of highly sought after Moloko sounds.

The first half will be the standard CD1 BEST OF; a selection of Moloko’s finest moments, celebrating their amazing career and featuring all the classic hits from their 4 inspirational studio albums.

The second will be a special 13-track collection, comprising LIVE TRACKS, NEW MIXES, B-SIDES and RARE MIXES of their exceptional work as well as a selection of PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED material, exclusive to the digital retailers.

TRACKLISTINGS
CD1 – Catalogue
1. Time Is Now
2. Sing It Back
3. Fun For Me
4. Familiar Feeling
5. Pure Pleasure Seeker
6. Cannot Contain This
7. Bankrupt Emotionally
8. Day For Night
9. Indigo
10. The Flipside
11. Where Is The What If The What Is In Why
12. Forever More
13. Statues

DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE 1 - CAT NO. 370 1475

1. Sing It Back (Mousse T's Feel Love Mix)

2. The Flipside (Herbert Surround Sound Mix)

3. Dominoid (Panty Sniffer Mix)

4. Indigo (Gus Gus Mix)

5. Lotus Eaters (Funk In Your Neighbourhood Mix)

6. Time Is Now (Can 7's Soulfood Mix)

7. Fun For Me (Plankton's Pondlife)

8. Pure Pleasure Seeker (Oscar G's Cube Libre Dub)

9. Forever More - (Francois Kervorkian Mix)

10. Familiar Feeling (Plankton's Country Slice Mix)

11. Sing It Back - (Can 7's 1930 Mix)

12. Party Wierdo (Wackdown Mix)

13. Where Is The What... (Wonderbook Mix)

DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE 2 - CAT No. 370 1535

1. I Want You (Live)
2. 100% (Live)
3. Blow By Blow (Live)
4. Come On (Live)
5. Being Is Bewildering (Live)
6. Pure Pleasure Seeker (Pleasure & Stripped Disco Mix)
7. Knee Deepen (Quartermaster Again Mix) *
8. Time Is Now (Fk Blissed Out Dub)
9. Familiar Feeling (Martin Buttrich Remix)
10. Forevermore (Pedal Freak Mix) *
11. Time Is Now (Donny One Leg’s Two Step) *
12. Lotus Eaters (Fila Brazillia Mix 1)
13. Sing It Back (Tee’s Freeze Mix)

DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE 3 - CAT No. 370 1575
1. Time Is Now (Dj Plankton Mix)
2. Sing It Back (Chez Maurice Mix) *
3. Fun For Me (Tadpole Dub)
4. Familiar Feeling (Doctor Rockitt Comes Close Mix)
5. Pure Pleasure Seeker (Pleasure For Life Uk Vocal)
6. Cannot Contain This (Slapper’s Delight Mix) *
7. Take My Hand Only used as a b side
8. Day For Night (Quarter Master Mix) Only on ABTTM
9. Indigo (Damn! Colostomy Jam!- DCJ All Seeing I Mix) 10. The Flipside (Swags Numbskull Vocal Mix) *
11. Where Is The What If The What Is In Why ? (Wondervox Mix)
12. Forever More (Fkek Vocal Mix)
13. Forevermore (Herbert’s Nobody Dub) Promo Vinyl

..and New Kingdom are trippy hip-hop - there is a difference

i remember one person actually telling me he listened to ambient hip-hop, as it was known in the days before Trip-hop.

Tricky's second album is still fresh, if such a murky record can be considered fresh. "Dummy" by Portishead still sounds good, and their second album was okay as well, IMO. Depth Charge seconded. Some of the Mo' Wax stuff was good- the first Headz compilation was about a 50/50 killer-filler ratio. There was an awful lot of crap released as a result of the trip hop/ Bristol sound hype, though.

actually, shopping in london, it's like no genre goes away. i was in zara t'other day and it was all speed garridge.

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There was an awful lot of crap released as a result of the trip hop/ BristolINSERT NAME OF GENRE HERE sound hype, though.

Very true, but (maybe?) particularly so for trip hop, since it was apparently pretty easy to get a record released featuring a lazy breakbeat with a female chanteuse/ horn sample/ blues sample over the top. It was also a bit too close to those Ibiza chill out compilation type release for comfort- a lot of it quickly shaded into that territory, much like contemporaneous drum 'n bass.

not as easy/lazy as using that strawman!

the trip-hop revival is probably already on us even though no one's calling it that (watch for the "electronic soul" tag - the dani siciliano album last year was very trip-hop, also very good). and a lot of the stuff on border community veers close to tripping and hopping too.

anyway if you ONLY want to think of triphop as morcheeba / portishead / sneaker pimps etc etc then NO, probably not time for a revival.

if you want to think of trip hop as the sum of downtempo electronica produced between ... 1985 or so and now, there's obviously a great deal of "search" along w/ the "destroy". and it's NEVER gone away ... hello four tet?

which itself proves just how massive the trip-hop umbrella is because all those bands have completely different sounds!

i mean, the mention of moloko on this thread is perplexing in itself, because i never saw how they fitted alongside portishead, tricky and so on: they had too much of a sense of humour for one thing. the róisín solo album is far more trip-hop than moloko ever were.

talking of tricky, the nearly god album is really a lost semi-classic.

i am just pissy because i just realized i could probably blog daily for about three years straight on all the good trip hop tracks i have in my apartment but i'll never get around to it.

anyway trip hop was SUPER important to me ... probably more than ANYTHING else, even detroit techno or deep house or jungle or whatever ... in high school i listened to lots of santana and jazz fusion and the melvins and also lots of hardcore and progressive house. and i had NO way of connecting the two worlds.

and then i got into trip hop. and it all opened up to me. and it got me into rap. and reggae.

i don't think ppl are bein that broad -- isn't 'trip hop' basically british downtempo, uh, post-wild bunch, sampler-based music (or something like that).

hmm, Baby Fox maybe...but perceptions of trip-hop be nebulous as ever

i'd never have considered a lot of those acts on those compilations trip-hop (basement jaxx? properllerheads? les rythmes digitales?!) though - it is fair to say that my defns of the genre were not particularly rigorous or well-thought-out at the time.

Moloko's early stuff (Dominoid, DYLMYTS etc.) had Roisin singing a LOT more like Beth Gibbons. So that combined with spooky analogue sounds seemed to validate the comparison.

Whereas Portishead and Tricky are usually only lumped together because they come from the same region of England...and Tricky sampled the same track as them for one hit.

but bear in mind the term came from James Lavelle describing the artists on Mo Wax (many of whom were not British e.g. Shadow, Krush)

The Headz compilation on Mo Wax is still the real Trip-Hop deal.

oh yeah - i went to a gig by this act called bat for lashes the other week. not only are they totally trip-hop, but they are also getting the kind of press which indicates that big things await them. they're ok-ish i guess!

'only' doing a lot of work.

-similar musical praxis
-similar stock of musical refs
-roots in same local scene

HOW DARE U LUMP THEM TOGETHER!

the Bristol lot hated the term

xposts artists be hatin' labels shocker.

a) trip hop
b) big beat
c) downtempo
d) early electronica
e) protobeardomicrohouse

this one's got Ride on it FFS!

But seriiously, Four Tet isn't Trip Hop, is it?

completely wrong!

tori amos made a vaguely trip-hop album you know. it was really good.

also check arctic's "cream of trip hop" vols 1,2,3

this is a very interesting thread.

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It scares me that I understand what this means.

I'm really loving Yppah's album Eighty One:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVo8Y9OmH_w

for the first time in ages, i listened to skylab #2 today.

sounded absolutely fantastic.

make of that what you will.

it's an absolutely fantastic album, one of a kind unfortunately

"root lets you speak with the dead"

I just wanna say that Moloko comp mentioned way upthread is one of the greatest things ever assembled

No. Trip Hop has had it's time - Garage Hip - House is the new thing.

Never heard skylab 2 but was into skylab one when i smoked too much weed in high school

Hey man, actually came here to mention those skylab and howie b albums...

They legitimate the whole trip-hop genre.

Most ppl think of massive attack, and portishead. Those are the more pop oriented side... I always think of cold cut and howie b as being the real triphop. I think if you understand those skylab albums then you'll see why this genre is pretty fucking cool.

i love trip hop

i have a pretty sick trip hop collection too

re skylab #2
there are actually 2 versions of the album.
for years i had been listening to the promo cd that i happened to find in a sales bin.
then after discussions with another skylab fan, strictly kev, it became apparent that this is not the normal edition.
so, i tracked down a copy of the cd edition, and it is different.
the tracklisting, and even some of the tracks.
basically, the promo cd edition is the vinyl version of the album.
strictly kev also sorted out me a fantastic mix of rare skylab material.

oh, and matty skylab has dipped into the world of mixtapes himself.
he put together a brilliant french psych mix (with lots of skylab-esque overdubs/tweaks) a few years ago and then sold it via his FB page.
the packaging was gorgeous.

http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/blog/wp-content/MattD3636x954.jpg

i don't really like skylab #2 ... too noisy, rather unchill ... the quiet parts are good though

what do you think of major force west?

I made a trip hop song today

what do you even call trip hops? songs? tracks?

that's part of the beauty of it, they're kind of both depending

what do you think of major force west?

i only have the original artform 2cd set, Love TKO, and the 93-97 compilation.

the tko album i find a bit too dreary at times, but a recent spin hit the spot more than before, so maybe i need to give it more time.

a lot of the stuff on the boxset consists of a beat and looped samples, but damn, it still hits the spot.

i love love love 'sax hoodlum' .. but thats not really trip hop.

The latest Acopia album is really hitting that sweet spot

A S.O. is pretty cool too

I guess this is a good thread to post this playlist

Modern Trip Hop 2013-2023:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/44oDEZiTjrIung29WSxRAn

xp was pretty disappointed with that ASO album tbh. Songwriting felt a bit lacking and aimless.

new chelsea wolfe songs gives me those olde tyme triphop vibes. in a gothier/industrial/ebm way. i was actually going to revive a trip hop thread the other day! must be a new day dawning. a new era of people lying down while making and listening to music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4KJRuADHQE

Can anybody ID the droney flute-y thing the DJ is talking over (starts at the 50 second mark)? I don’t think it’s from abstract hallucinating gases or even by vadim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtHV9hzKEt8

#bluntedbeats

the Pejzaż song on that trip hop Spotify playlist is so cool

Recommend last year's Natural Wonder Beauty Concept album to anyone who hasn't heard it. Definite trip hop mood, there's moments on there that sound like Lamb or someone, really good record

And cosign on the Acopia too

Really liking the Saffron Bloom album. Brooding, instrumental trip-hop

https://open.spotify.com/album/24TRwtQvlJdcCFzjZ4TM9z?si=uuvGtrNVQ_2z5g-GE85kmQ

The Logic1000 DJ Kicks album from earlier in the year is going to be featuring very highly on my EOY ballot. Amazing mix

https://logic1000.bandcamp.com/album/dj-kicks-logic1000

That’s is a dope mix thanks for the recommendation!

yeah Lukas tipped me to that on the chill out moodz thread. Really dope and inspiring.

The new Lucrecia Dalt album has an arty trip-hop feel to me.

https://lucreciadalt.bandcamp.com/album/a-danger-to-ourselves

I like this! (the Logic1000 DJ Kicks)

Don't feel like I have anything to add beyond astonishment at my oldness and out of touchness at continually finding new artists with millions of playcounts who seem to specifically up my alley, yet I've never even heard mentioned before

The silos, they are so very deep but extremely narrow

Really liking the Saffron Bloom album. Brooding, instrumental trip-hop

https://open.spotify.com/album/24TRwtQvlJdcCFzjZ4TM9z?si=uuvGtrNVQ_2z5g-GE85kmQ

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just listening to this now, very cool, kinda reminds me of bowery electric a litle?

Enjoying Eternal Game by Teleself. Quite blunted.

https://appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-16-eternal-game