What genre is trip hop?

What genre is trip hop?

Hip hop music
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Trip hop/Parent genres

What is trip hip-hop?

Definition of trip-hop : electronic dance music usually based on a slow hip-hop beat and incorporating hypnotic synthesized and prerecorded sounds.

What makes a song trip hop?

The musicology of Trip-Hop stems from the fusion of experimental breakbeat music, sped up from Hip-Hop breaks, a heavy bass thread with a simple yet driving groove, sample-based and live instrumentation, with melancholic melodies, ambient, downtempo energy, and ethereal vocals as the main elements.

Is trip-hop still popular?

Trip–hop is officially dead; its creators have either abandoned the sound, given up, or can no longer inspire similar feelings of genuine dread that carried the music through the ’90s.

What genre is Bjork?

Electronic dance music
Björk/Genres

Is DJ Shadow trip-hop?

It was pioneered by acts like Massive Attack, Tricky, and Portishead. The term was first coined in a 1994 Mixmag piece about American producer DJ Shadow. Trip hop achieved commercial success in the 1990s, and has been described as “Europe’s alternative choice in the second half of the ’90s”.

What genre is Wax Tailor?

Wax Tailor/Genres

What genre is Portishead?

trip-hop group
Portishead, British trip-hop group who popularized the genre in North America by fusing dance music conventions such as drum loops and samples with atmospheric cabaret-style vocals.