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In a roundabout way, that was suuuuper helpful. http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-trip-hop-test-vol-1-mw0000628182 This was the album, it was looking at all the names I haven't thought about in forever (kids soundtrack! moorcheeba!) that got into the right part of my memory. Thanks and I highly recommend this album.

Yep, Massive Attack has the trifecta: Blue Lines, Protection, and Mezzanine. They are all are masterpieces which I have rarely seen rivaled (Mezzanine is the finest album ever crafted my mortals). joegard points out Thievery's The Richest Man in Babylon, however I would suggest that Radio Retaliation is the best album by Thievery to throw into the ring in contest against the likes of Massive Attack.

When I had a YouTube channel I used to edit videos for some Trip-Hop songs that, as you said, evoked imagery in my head. If you want to check them out, I've uploaded some of those videos to Vimeo :)

>Trip-Hop was coined by the English music press in an attempt to characterize a new style of downtempo, jazz-, funk-, and soul-inflected experimental breakbeat music which began to emerge around in 1993...

edit: On second thought, I think I like the simple english wiki's definition better:

>Trip-hop is a genre of downtempo music. It began as a mix of rock, jazz, dub, soul, and some other elements including psychedelic rock, ambient, progressive rock, acid jazz and alternative hip hop. It came from Bristol, England in the early 1990s; the group that started what has become to be called the Bristol sound was Massive Attack.

Glad to have made another fan! He has an incredibly unique sound.

Their ensemble is great - I think it was 5 or 6 of them up there. They have some of the best cohesion I've come across, with a very fluid live adaptation of the original tracks. I believe Douglas Appling (Emancipator) plays the majority of the instruments that you hear throughout, and just samples them appropriately on the studio tracks.

Cheers!

EDIT: I saw you mention you're in the UK. If you're near London, check out their ensemble while they're in town February 27th. You seriously won't regret it.

Well, Londonium for starters. Also check out Mezzanine, Blue Lines, and Protection by Massive Attack, Lamb's self-titled album, Portishead's Dummy and s-t, Animal Magic and Black Sands by Bonobo, Maxinquaye by Tricky, Lushlife and Beat by Bowery Electric, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing, Sneaker Pimp's Becoming X, and The Richest Man in Babylon by Thievery Corporation, to name a few.

yes I do!

and sorry for the self plug, but I've made a series of short trip hop mixes you might like - all up on mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/ADAPTED/

i tried to include the major players, plus some unexpected artists in there.

I love how they sampled the cure for this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoGxbrGqNL8

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/58188/Cibo-Matto-Sugar-Water-The-Cure-Pictures-of-You-(Extended-Dub-Mix)/

I find Songkick really useful for tracking shows. You can import all your last.fm and Spotify data and you'll get an email when they announce a date. You can also track cities, but not genres.

Here is my first recorded trip-hop/lounge/downtempo set with some electro-swing at the end.

This mix is also on mixcloud & hearthis

1. Thunderball - The Moon, The Sky
2. Tricky - Aftermath
3. Jenova 7 & Mr. Moods - Nightshade
4. Max Sedgley - Slowly (Full Length Version)
5. 9 Lazy 9 - Journeyman's Electric Lazyman
6. Jenova 7 & Mr. Moods - Sunrise in Paris
7. deeB - Khan
8. deeB - Yacht
9. Mr. Moods - Vibrate at Rhythms
10. 9 Lazy 9 - The Herb
11. Mr. Moods - On Dope
12. 9 Lazy 9 - Swingpool
13. DJ Krush - Ruff Neck Jam
14. Amon Tobin - Sordid

To better clarify what I'm talking about (I get 4 up votes and then 4 down votes) check this out:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mynoise.mynoise

There's more to a tone that just a tone.

I think it's lovely. I'm just a little disappointed because it's a sound that TC has been doing for years. Ever since "The Richest Man in Babylon," they've been repeating themselves .... a lot.

It doesn't mean I can't enjoy this album, though. It's good.

You should check out some of their other albums.

Bum Raps and Love Taps is another great one: http://www.amazon.com/Raps-Love-Taps-Elysian-Fields/dp/B001GU4MPM

I can kind of see the Sneaker Pimps comparison, I hadn't really considered it before.