Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A style of popular music typically having a slowed-down hip-hop beat and often incorporating elements of dub.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There are also plans to bring in Lamb, the electronic trip-hop musicians from Manchester.
Portugal's new tourism draws are Phantom Of The Opera and Evita 2011
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Pushed to wider awareness by David Byrne and his Luaka Bop world music label, the band's three releases cover trip-hop, dub, house and Latin-tinged electronica via Carol C's bilingual English and Spanish vocals.
Nightlife agenda -Fritz Hahn 2011
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There's something pleasing about the way it eschews all the standard baggage that comes with middle-of-the-road, Radio 2-playlisted artists: no gentle trip-hop breakbeats or cosseting synth washes, no hitmaking songwriters-for-hire buried in the credits, no post-Amy Winehouse retro soul or supper-club jazz scenery.
Rumer: seasons of my soul – review Alexis Petridis 2010
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The first backwards-tracked vocal on "Rain," a still-underrated classic whose revolutionary noise and beats paved the way for psychedelia and trip-hop, and helped invent MTV.
Scott Thill: John Lennon: Working Class Mythmaker Scott Thill 2010
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She set her early professional path working with trip-hop artist Tricky.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 202 Phil Ramone 2011
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We wondered? plucking several descriptions out of thin air charged with electric ions? whether we should proceed by labelling it folk noir, avant-acoustica, ballad oscuro, Nico in trip-hop hell, or susurrating 21st century shadowplay?
Matteah Baim (No 887) Paul Lester 2010
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The fact that it's trip-hop is mainly unexpected because its memory was bludgeoned into an unholy late-90s mess of Kosheen and Morcheeba, turning the genre's innovations into "chillout" music for the sort of dinner parties where discussion centred on what to do with that Jerusalem artichoke in your weekly organic veg box.
Yasmin, Emeli Sandé and Maverick Sabre are taking a trip back into trip-hop 2011
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Tricky, whose signature trip-hop sound has returned in a puff of smoke.
Yasmin, Emeli Sandé and Maverick Sabre are taking a trip back into trip-hop 2011
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Other trip-hop set texts influencing the charts include Tricky's Maxinquaye and Portishead's Dummy.
Yasmin, Emeli Sandé and Maverick Sabre are taking a trip back into trip-hop 2011
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The first backwards-tracked vocal on "Rain," a still-underrated classic whose revolutionary noise and beats paved the way for psychedelia and trip-hop, and helped invent MTV.
Scott Thill: John Lennon: Working Class Mythmaker Scott Thill 2010
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