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Smoky beats, instrumental hip-hop and chloroformed grooves: Born in the 90s, trip hop, remains one of the most fascinating urban soundtracks. Behind the stars of the genre are Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead and Morcheeba, among many other artists hiding in the background of this playlist, with which we invite you to (re)discover! Photo : Lamb
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Grantley Marshall, ComposerLyricist - Shara Nelson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tim Young, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Wil Malone, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Massive Attack, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel - Robert Del Naja, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Dollar, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Booga Bear, Producer, Executive Producer - Andrew Lee Isaac Vowles, ComposerLyricist - Jonathan Peter Sharp, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2006 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 2006 Virgin Records Limited
Geoff Barrow, Music Production, Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Adrian Utley, Guitar, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Beth Gibbons, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Portishead, Producer, MainArtist - Dave McDonald, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Solman, Hammond Organ, Rhodes , AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1994 Go! Discs Ltd.
Tricky, Producer, Vocals, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martina Topley-Bird, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Kevin Petrie, Producer - Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1993 Universal Music Operations Limited
Roya Arab, Author - ARCHIVE, Producer, Mixer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel - Darius Keeler, Composer - Rosko John, Author - Pete Barraclough, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Daniel Griffiths, ComposerLyricist - Jimmy Ruffin, ComposerLyricist - Neil McLellan, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julia Palmer, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Matheu Martin, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
D. Lee, French Horn - C. Hughes, Violin - Paul Godfrey, Composer, Beats and Scratches Beats - Ross Godfrey, Composer, Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesiser - D Pipkin., Keyboards - L Gordon, Bass Guitar - Morcheeba, Production, Performance, MainArtist - Skye Edwards, Composer, Vocals - Pete Norris, Production - S Wright, Viola - T. Grant, Cello - H. Ball, Violin - E. R. Singleton, Violin - P. Oxer, Violin - D. Emanuel, Violin - E. Pritchard, Cello - I. McLeod, Violin - R. Bridgmont, Cello - M Posner, Viola
© 1998 China Records Ltd ℗ 1998 China Records Ltd.
Adrian Utley, Bass Guitar, Bass - Stuart Gordon, Viola, Violin - Goldfrapp, Composer, MainArtist - Will Gregory, Producer, Arranger, Keyboards, Writer, Strings - Alison Goldfrapp, Producer, Keyboards, Vocals, Writer, Whistle - John Parish, Drums - Nick Batt, Programmer, Additional Programmer, Synth Bass, Synthesizer, Synthesiser - Chris Weston, Programmer, Additional Programmer
© 2000 Mute Records Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 2000 Mute Records Ltd., a BMG Company
Kruder.Dorfmeister, Main Artist, Composer - G-Stone Music
1996 !K7 Music 1996 !K7 Records
Grantley Marshall, ComposerLyricist - Elizabeth Fraser, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Vowles, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Massive Attack, Producer, MainArtist - Robert Del Naja, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Neil Davidge, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, Samples, AssociatedPerformer - Andy Gangadeen, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew Lee Isaac Vowles, ComposerLyricist - Lee Shepherd, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jan Kybert, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - P-Dub, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Angelo Bruschini, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Twig, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Grantley Evan Marshall, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer
(C) 1998 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 1998 Virgin Records Ltd ℗ 1998 Virgin Records Limited
Funki Porcini, MainArtist - Just Isn't Music, MusicPublisher
1995 Ninja Tune 1995 Ninja Tune
Peter Kruder, Composer - Peace Orchestra, MainArtist
1999 Peace Orchestra 1999 Peyo Musica
Tosca, Main Artist - Richard Dorfmeister; Rupert Huber, Composer - Edition G-Stone
2000 !K7 Records 2000 G-Stone Recordings
Goldfrapp, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - W. Gregory, Writer - Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp, Composer, Lyricist - A. Goldfrapp, Writer - Gregory, Goldfrapp, Composer
© 2000 Mute Records Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 2000 Mute Records Ltd., a BMG Company
Geoff Barrow, ComposerLyricist - Adrian Utley, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Isaac Hayes, ComposerLyricist - Beth Gibbons, ComposerLyricist - Portishead, Producer, MainArtist - Dave McDonald, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1994 Go! Discs Ltd.
Kid Loco, Performer - Kid Bravo, Composer
2009 Wagram Music 2009 Wagram Music
Thievery Corporation, MainArtist
(C) 2011 R.02 Records (P) 2011 R.02 Records
Dj Cam, Performer, Composer - Smooth 1, Composer
Laurent Daumail Productions Laurent Daumail Productions
Kieren Hebden, Composer - 00110100 01010100, MainArtist
2017 74 65 78 74 2017 74 65 78 74
9 Lazy 9, MainArtist - Just Isn't Music, MusicPublisher
1994 Ninja Tune 1997 Ninja Tune
Mark Saunders, Producer - Marcella Detroit, ComposerLyricist - Tricky, Producer, Vocals, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Siobhan Maire Deirdre Fahey, ComposerLyricist - Martina Topley-Bird, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1995 Universal Music Operations Limited
Andy Bradfield, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Hicks, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kevin Metcalfe, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ben Findlay, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Marco Migliari, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alpha, Producer, MainArtist - Jacquie Turner, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alex Scannell, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andy Jenks, ComposerLyricist - Corin Dingley, ComposerLyricist - Martin Barnard, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emma Jones, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Justin Griffith, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 1997 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 1997 Virgin Records Ltd ℗ 1997 Virgin Records Ltd./Melankolic
Unkle, Producer, MainArtist - Josh Davis, Composer - DJ SHADOW, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer - James Lavelle, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Temple, Author, Vocals, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Abbiss, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1998 Mowax Recordings/A&M Records Ltd.
Paul Godfrey, Composer, Beats and Scratches Beats - Ross Godfrey, Composer, Guitar, Keyboards - Morcheeba and Pete Norris, Producer - Morcheeba, Performed by, MainArtist - Skye, Vocals - Skye Edwards, Composer - Chris "Pitta" Harrison., Engineer
© 1996 China Records Ltd ℗ 1996 China Records Ltd
Grantley Marshall, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Vowles, ComposerLyricist - Shara Nelson, ComposerLyricist - NELLEE HOOPER, Producer - Billy Cobham, ComposerLyricist - Massive Attack, MainArtist - Robert Del Naja, ComposerLyricist - Booga Bear, Producer, Executive Producer - Massive Attack with Johnny Dollar, Producer
(C) 2006 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 2006 EMI Records Ltd ℗ 2006 Virgin Records Limited
David Holmes, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 Go Beat Ltd.
DJ Vadim, MainArtist - Just Isn't Music, MusicPublisher
1996 Ninja Tune 1996 Ninja Tune
Roya Arab, ComposerLyricist - ARCHIVE, MainArtist - Darius Keeler, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1996 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Herbalizer, Main Artist - J.Wherry / O.Teeba / J. Cuba, Composer - BCP - BMGUFA
1996 !K7 Music 1997 Ninja Tune
DJ Krush, Composer, Lyricist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 1998 Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
Nightmares On Wax, MainArtist
2014 Warp Records 2014 Warp Records
Murphy, Composer - Brydon, Composer - MARK BRYDEN, Writer - Moloko, Producer, MainArtist - M. BRYDON, Writer - R. MURPHY, Writer - ROISIN MURPHY, Composer, Vocals, Writer - Mark Brydon, Composer, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, Keyboards
© 1995 The Echo Label Limited, a BMG Company trading as ECHO ℗ 2006 The Echo Label Limited, a BMG Company trading as ECHO
Ali Staton, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Lamb, Producer, MainArtist - Andrew Barlow, ComposerLyricist - Lou Rhodes, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1996 Mercury Records Limited
Roya Arab, ComposerLyricist - ARCHIVE, MainArtist - Darius Keeler, ComposerLyricist - Rosko John, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1996 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Flying Lotus, MainArtist
2007 Warp Records 2007 Warp Records
Roya Arab, ComposerLyricist - ARCHIVE, MainArtist - Darius Keeler, ComposerLyricist - Rosko John, ComposerLyricist - D. Griffiths, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1996 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited
Josh Davis, ComposerLyricist - DJ SHADOW, Producer, Mixer, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Jeremy Storch, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1996 Mowax Recordings/A&M Records Ltd.
Grantley Marshall, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Vowles, ComposerLyricist - Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Massive Attack, MainArtist - Robert Del Naja, ComposerLyricist - Doc Savidge For Massive Attack Productions, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
(C) 1998 Virgin Records LtdThis label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.(C) 1998 Virgin Records Ltd ℗ 1997 Virgin Records Limited
Joy Malcolm, Lyricist - Klaus Waldeck, Composer - Klaus Waldeck, Arranger - Waldeck, Performer
(P)1998 Spray Records/BMG Ariola Austria GmbH
DJ Spooky, Artist, MainArtist - Paul D. Miller, Composer
1996 Asphodel 1996 Subliminal Kid Publishing (BMI)
Paul Godfrey, Composer - Ross Godfrey, Composer - Morcheeba and Pete Norris, Producer - Morcheeba, Performance, MainArtist - Skye Edwards, Composer - DJ First Rate., Scratching - Spikey T, Voices
© 1998 China Records Ltd ℗ 1998 China Records Ltd
Tricky, Producer, Vocals, Music Production, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Howie Bernstein, ComposerLyricist - Howie B., Producer - Martina Topley-Bird, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 Universal Music Operations Limited
Télépopmusik, Producer, MainArtist - Stephan Haeri, ComposerLyricist - Michael Giffts, Author - Christophe Hetier, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Fabrice Dumont, ComposerLyricist - Soda-Pop, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2001 Universal Music Publishing France
Geoff Barrow, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Adrian Utley, Producer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Beth Gibbons, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Portishead, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1994 Go! Discs Ltd.
Tosca, MainArtist - R. Dorfmeister, Composer - R. Huber, Composer
1997 Tosca Productions 1997 Tosca Music
Paul Godfrey, Composer, Beats and Scratches Beats - Ross Godfrey, Composer, Guitar, Keyboards - L Gordon, Bass - G Kyle, Backing Vocals - Pierre Le Rue, Fiddle - Morcheeba, Producer, Performance, MainArtist - Skye Edwards, Composer, Vocals - Pete Norris, Producer
© 1998 China Records Ltd ℗ 1998 China Records Ltd
London Funk Allstars, Primary
1995 Ninja Tune
Amon Tobin, Primary
2000 Ninja Tune
I:Cube, Orchestra, Performer - Nicolas Chaix, Composer
2015 My Classics 2015 Versatile Records
Emancipator, Producer, MainArtist - Douglas Appling, Composer
2013 Jakarta Records 2013 Loci Records under exclusive license to Jakarta Records
Kruder.Dorfmeister, Main Artist - Kruder, Dorfmeister, Composer - SMV Schacht Musikverlage GmbH & Co KG!K7 Publishing GmbH
1996 !K7 Music 1996 !K7 Records / G-Stone Recordings
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Smoky beats, instrumental hip-hop and chloroformed grooves: Born in the 90s, trip hop, remains one of the most fascinating urban soundtracks. Behind the stars of the genre are Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead and Morcheeba, among many other artists hiding in the background of this playlist, with which we invite you to (re)discover!
Photo : Lamb
Trip Hop in 10 Albums
by Marc Zisman
At the dawn of the ’90s, the trip hop wave overtook the UK with an electronica sound influenced by Jamaican music and hip hop beats. With their chloroformed rhythms and heavy ambience, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Morcheeba and several other outfits invented a kind of dark, futuristic and often cinematic soul music. Here’s a spotlight on 10 albums from a genre with blurred sonic borders but a definitive musical influence.
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing..... (1996)
As Endtroducing..... appeared in 1996, rap was exiting its golden age and beginning to reach the broader public. Meanwhile, with its obscure, murky samples, hip-hop beats and cinematic ambience, trip hop had upended the DJ/sampler approach. One imagines Josh Davies, a 24-year-old California DJ, as the offspring of these cultures, revolutionizing them by fusing an album exclusively using samples. Armed with MPC60 and two turntables, DJ Shadow unleashes a rich, exhilarating collage of every possible imaginable musical genre. Endtroducing... features Stanley Clarke next to the Beastie Boys, Metallica, Don Covay, Alan Parsons Project, Giorgio Moroder, T. Rex, The Isley Brothers, Meredith Monk, Funkadelic, David Axelrod and even Pink Floyd. But Shadow’s strength resides in the narrative power of his instrumental collages, because beyond the virtuosity of his golden fingers and the intelligence of his assemblages, the Californian is writing his own music and incidentally inventing a dazzlingly electronic instrumental hip-hop.
Archive – Londinium (1996)
After Massive Attack and then Portishead drew the blurry boundaries of trip hop, next came Archive… but that bronze medal couldn’t stop these Londoners from Clapham from equalling and especially standing out from their predecessors. With a less oppressive sound, Archive’s first album heralded a more climactic sound open to other genres. Underpinning the sensual, suave voice of Iranian singer Roya Arab and the MC flow of Rosko John, Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths weave a dreamy soul on Lexomil, leaning on cottony hip-hop beats. With Karl Hyde of Underworld on guitar on four tracks and Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine playing godfather in the shadows behind his mixing board, the “instrumentarium” brings a powerful humanity to the atmosphere of this splenetic sound (the guitar of Headspace). And when the rapping steps up (So Few Words, Darkroom) and the torpor subsides, Archive maintains its soul above all.
Morcheeba – Big Calm (1998)
It’s impossible to dig into the postmodern soul of Morcheeba without the mind’s eye witnessing a parade of images… Two years after Who Can You Trust?, the second album by the London outfit, released in March 1998, is bursting with discoveries. Morcheeba does everything possible to shake the trip hop label off its back, with the music of Big Calm scanning other sonic genre horizons, from pop (The Sea, Blindfold) to reggae (Friction) to folk (Over and Over). As sensual as ever, the voice of Skye Edwards dominates this classy and magical record from cover to cover. Behind her, the colossal work of Paul and Ross Godfrey impresses with its precision, subtle, lush groove and impeccable craftmanship. The two brothers may be fans of 2,569 styles, but here, everything is beautifully channelled; instead of musical mood pieces, songs are the priority, as if trip hop were growing into adulthood by shaking off some burdensome sonic codes. With a cover inspired by the très lounge Hi Fi Companion by Ray Conniff and his orchestra, Big Calm transforms the dancefloor into a cocooning No Man’s Land and turns trip hop’s neuroses into welcoming warmth. A musical magic trick!
Massive Attack – Mezzanine (1998)
Ten years after their appearance, Massive Attack remain untouchable thanks to their singular aesthetic and sound. Yet with their third album, released in April 1998, 3D, Daddy G and Mushroom proved that their trip hop hadn’t fully blossomed… The Bristol group’s enduringly mysterious soul only grows darker and more ominous. Courtesy of 3D, a venomous cold wave creeps through everything, from unsettling opener Angel on through. Ambient dread and anxiety are ratcheted up to 10 in the vulcanized Risingson, while even the electro-metalloid Dissolved Girl lowers oppressively despite the elfin vocals of Sarah Jay. In the menacing yet sublime Teardrop, it takes a full minute for the appearance of the ethereal Liz Fraser, borrowed from Cocteau Twins (she also sings in Black Milk and Group Four), to loosen the tension and offer a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel… but the omnipresent electronica cannot prevent Mezzanine from remaining resolutely organic. The enduringly fascinating album was recorded without Tricky, and Mushroom would eventually depart over artistic differences.
Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain (2000)
As the whistled intro of Lovely Head unfurls, you’d think you were listening to an unreleased Portishead track. However, riding ambience right out of an old ‘60s soundtrack and a suspended sensual voice, the debut Goldfrapp album is no Dummy clone. The musical DNA of London duo Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory was identifiably from elsewhere. Admittedly, the singer had been swimming in the waters of trip hop for some time (sharing the mic with Tricky in Pumpkin on his album Maxinquaye), but with Felt Mountain, the cinematic ambitions she shares and unfurls with her multi-instrumentalist partner are in an entirely different register. Released in September 2000, the album seems obsessed with the lyricism and mystery of old scores from the ‘60s and ‘70s by Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Henry Mancini, François de Roubaix, Krzysztof Komeda and others. Less electronic than the competition, Goldfrapp revels in luxury and lust. There’s nothing depressive about this trip hop soundscape, just an invitation to surrender to Alison Goldfrapp’s soprano and Will Gregory’s powerfully dramatic compositions. To watch the sonic cinema screened by Felt Mountain, just close your eyes...
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