Trip-hop might have been a term invented by a journalist, but it ended up being a handy umbrella for a lot of artists to thrive under, plus it gave a city a musical identity and a lot of music ...

Bass plays a vital role in a trip-hop track. Much like trip-hop beats (which we've covered here), using bassline loops is a perfectly valid approach, and memorable trip-hop tracks such as Portishead’s ...

Trip-hop is a style that’s highly dependent on its laid back feel and this is often achieved using slowed down sampled loops ...

Trip-hop defined both the 90s and a certain British city. It set the blueprint for today's down-tempo sounds, so here's how you too can get trippy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Trip-hop emerged during the early '90s. Born out of the underground electronic scene, this was the kind of music to stick on in the early hours, post rave. When your body could no longer dance, it was ...

Listen to songs from Portishead and Cibo Matto, plus inheritors like Fcukers and a.s.o. By David Renard Over the past couple of years, it’s started to feel like every out-of-favor electronic music ...

Trip hop died on April 29, 2008, in Portishead, North Somerset, England, after a long illness. The coroner listed the musical genre’s cause of death as acute gloom as well as a severe deficiency of ...