I am thinking of people who make music in the style of bands like Massive Attack and Portishead. Just curious as its not a style you see a lot of people making and would like to meet others that make it.

 

One of the best slow music, I've ever heard. I don't know how you categorize it but it's perfect:

Also read what some Trip-Hop lovers say about it:
The British music press really only call it this. Everywhere else it's just seen as another welcome addition to the post-hip hop, downtempo breakbeat movement. Everything ambienty and jazzy included. Only this is reeeeeeeaaaaaalllly slooooooooooowww, with female vocals that don't sing insomuch as they just droll around like they quaffed too many quaaludes. Bristol seems to churn out artists the way Seattle churns out grunge bands. I don't find it as fun as the others, though. Leave it to the brits to dullify yet another promising strain of music.

 

It's a shame that it's a dying genre. Some of the tracks are absolute classics that none of these "future" or "EDM" genre songs will ever touch (and that's not just the nostalgia in me talking)!

 

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On a side note, Massive attack's Robert Del Naja was just outed as Banksy??

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4628926/Banksy-FINALLY-unmasked.html

 

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They are one of my influences, with lots of other things. I agree, it's a genre that is being forgotten. That's one of my Eps with some trip-hop flavour:



Also very trip-hop influenced (among other genres), with a friend of mine:

https://thegravestonekickers.bandcamp.com/

 

I really like this one, and the lyrics!

 

First lesson in life, never, EVER, go to the Daily Heil website or link to it anywhere or believe a word it says!

Seen this since?

http://www.cetusnews.com/views/ByX4HwuqP6m-?cat=life&title=Sorry-Fans:-Banksy-Is-Not-Robert-Del-Naja-from-Massive-Attack,-Says-Source

Goldie simply referred to "Robert" in his interview and the media made the link to 3D just because Goldie and Del Naja were graffiti artists in the 1980s who knew each other and have since maintained a friendship. A somewhat logical link to make, but in reality it could be any "Robert" and I'm sure Goldie knows many. Goldie and 3D have dismissed it and even rang each other and "rolling around fucking pissing their pants" over it, as Goldie put it. This story is all bollocks because Banksy and 3D are most definitely different people as Banksy's real name is not even Robert, which is what makes this story even more funny!

 

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Here's one of my latest trip hop songs:

 

Archive Londinium probably one of the best trip-hop album ever

 

You mean you don't buy into all the DM articles about people's reddit posts?? Sorry had to drop this article in here since the name Massive Attack came up... I go now

 

Not personally but I am a fan even though I'm a hopeless lifer to metal and most of it's bastard offspring, I do not limit myself to just listening to such all the time.

I'll be checking out any/all recommended on this thread that I'm not aware of. I was a/am a huge fan of some electronic styles and especially areas where traditional musicianship is fused with synthesis, sampling and such which is a staple of electronic music obviously.
My personal favourite being Mick Harris whose main band/project Scorn, Which he "put to bed" in 2012 IIRC, After releasing a great EP.
If it happens that some have not heard the work of one of the numerous former member's of Napalm Death (Mick Harris was the second person to pick up the sticks to play behind the kit for Napalm Death in the mid 1980's IIRC), His take on electronic styles has seen a lot of experimentation, Personally I find the pinnacle releases of Scorn to be the last two full-length albums, Which are 'Stealth' from 2007 and 'Refuse; Start Fires' from 2010, It has that whole Birmingham thing going, Definitely the stuff which the black country breeds, To me it brings to mind an uneasy feeling of claustrophobia, Dark, Very bleak abandoned and delipidated buildings which we're once powerhouses of the booming industrial revolution period.
It isn't the haunting, beautiful style which Portishead deliver and I love but still his whole body of work is well worth checking out if you are a fan of/into British pioneers of electronic music, I'd definitely go as far to say that Mick was pivotal in the development of what went on to become the mainstream success (and done to death thing) that was/is dubstep, However do not let that take away from the great body of work he's delivered and likely will continue to do so.
Here are both aforementioned albums just on the chance that some may wish to checkout what I'm talking about;
Scorn - Stealth - 2007 on Ad Noiseam/Ohm Resistance:

Refuse; Start Fires - 2010 on Ohm Resistance: https://www.deejay.de/Scorn_Refuse_Start_Fires_16MOHMCD__70063
Refuse; Start Fires was/is masterpiece in using a great quality drummer (Ian 'Yan' Treacy' whose played for black country legends of DM 'Benediction' and in black country grind/Death and industrial somewhat super group 'Meathook Seed'), A drummer of great quality, Great sounding kit and so on with which to build the great his filthy, blackened electronics around or upon.
There are plenty of other very good albums he's released under the Scorn name, Well worth digging into.

Cheers for all the recommendations as I haven't found any trip hop to get into for a long time which is my own fault as I've clearly not searched hard enough, All the best to all as always

Dean

 

Yep. I have made 4 albums mainly inspired by Silent Hill, whom composer (Akira Yamaoka) got inspiration by Portishead, Massive Attack, etc. which also are my favorite bands.

Because of my inspiration you will hear a dark, melancholic, and eeir-ish triphop in my songs, with some ambient and industrial tracks too.

 

+1 for the Hikaru Utada name, I'm a long time fan of her. +1 more for the DJ Krush style trip hop You're dope friend!

 

My tastes are diverse (although I mostly like her unplugged versions haha), thanks mate!

 

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Some mixes from my playlist,

 

I bought my Logghi Barogghi CD in the nineties! Yes, Scorn is cool!

 

Couldn't access this one (it was posted at Reverbnation, but something is wrong over there). So I re-uploaded it, as it's the most trip-hop song I've ever made (a friend is in the violins):



This other one also, and pretty dark:



Guys, I'm getting a flashback reading this post: Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Unkle, Nearly God, Morcheeba, Scorn, everything so nineties!

@SAiNT: Yes! The Portishead live in Roseland is a must for trip-hop fans!!!!