From Irene McC Sent Wed, Feb 17th 1999, 10:13
On 17 Feb 99, Michael Upton wrote re: Re: (idm) This Sex Which Is Not One: > The trends can pretty much be directly applied to non-academic > stuff, eg idm, particularly trip-hop. What is this taboo with the word TR*P-H*P? Why has it become such a no-no, unhip, way uncool category? How, in fact, do 'we' define trip-hop? To me, it started with the first s/t Portishead album - or am I off beam here? I think I like trip hop! I know we all hate categorisation, but I would appreciate if you could post what *you* consider trip-hop, what its parameters or essential recognisable features are - then I can put it in a box, a mental compartment for easy access and reference and decide from there whether to asterisk it in future, or to write it out boldly. ;-) I *