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From:
Philip Evans
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Date:
Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:21:20 -0700 (PDT)
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Re: (idm) + Tripin' on Trip-Hop +
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At 11:17 PM 10/20/96, Brock Suter wrote:
quoted 10 lines Pedro Cevallos wrote:>Pedro Cevallos wrote: >> >> To me Ninja Tune is not Trip Hop. To me trip hop is that formulaic DJ >> Icey-type shit that goes: >> >> 1-2-3-4-sample-5-6-7-8-sample-sample >> 1-2-3-4-sample-5-6-7-8-sample-sample >> ... > >Sorry Pedro, but I got to disagree with you on that one.
quoted 14 lines I'd call the stuff on Ninja Tune, trip-hop, as far as anything is...I'd>I'd call the stuff on Ninja Tune, trip-hop, as far as anything is...I'd >even say that hands down its some of the best trip-hop there is on the >planet. > >So, bottom line, if you like 'down-tempo breakbeat on a funked out, >smooth & jazzy tip' check out: > >Artist > > >Hope this helps, > >brock >
Trip Hop was a term invented by mainstream critics to describe any interesting funky break-beaty techno offshoot that they happen to like. Of course the musicians themselves will resent that label, since it lumps them into some random amorphous group that's defined by rock critics, for Christ's sake. For the sake of compartmentalization, I call it abstract hip-hop, which is what MoWax seems to have started calling *their* stuff. And yes, NinjaTunes puts out the best examples of that stuff, whatever you want to call it. -Phil [----------] [---] [-----] [-----] [-----] [----------] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [----------] [----------] [---] [---] [----------] [----------] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [---] [--------] [-----] [-----] [---] [-----] [----------] Home is where the stereo is!