what is trip hop?
2 Sep 2002 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimorene(i was curious.)
"Slow and crunching hip hop beats, no vocals, just strange swirling noises over the top. The Sonic faithful look utterly confused. It's like taking acid at a hip hop gig. Weird.
This is trip hop, a deft fusion of head-nodding beats, supa-phat bass and an obsessive attention to the kind of other-wordly sounds usually found on acid house records. It comes from the suburbs, not the streets, and with no vocals you don't need to be American to make it sound convincing. All you need are crazy beats and fucked up sounds and you've got the most exciting thing to happen to hip hop in a long time. Right now there are bedroom homeboys making innovative, tripped out hip hop that is nothing like the US blueprint of slamming beats and cunning rhymes. "
from mixmag online here.
"Slow and crunching hip hop beats, no vocals, just strange swirling noises over the top. The Sonic faithful look utterly confused. It's like taking acid at a hip hop gig. Weird.
This is trip hop, a deft fusion of head-nodding beats, supa-phat bass and an obsessive attention to the kind of other-wordly sounds usually found on acid house records. It comes from the suburbs, not the streets, and with no vocals you don't need to be American to make it sound convincing. All you need are crazy beats and fucked up sounds and you've got the most exciting thing to happen to hip hop in a long time. Right now there are bedroom homeboys making innovative, tripped out hip hop that is nothing like the US blueprint of slamming beats and cunning rhymes. "
from mixmag online here.
