Re: (idm) the music that dare not speak its name / What is Trip Hop?

From EvilIzzo
Sent Wed, Feb 17th 1999, 19:08

I used to think that Trip Hop was defined by the "U.S. Homegrown - Total Trip
Hop" series on Moonshine.  You know bands like "The Crystal Method" amd
"Fluke" but I was later corrected and told that Moonshine was wrong, and that
this was called "Big Beats"  (Which over the past 3 years he was proven
correcrt.  Big Beats has become a definite category of electronica) - and a
damn good one at that!

  So when I was corrected, I was told that the definitive "Trip Hop" CD was
ISDN by the Future Sound of London.  So I bought it.  Sounds like fragmented
ambience to me, but what do I know.

  Here in NYC, it seems that "Trip Hop" is the catch phrase used by casual
clubgoers that don't really listen to underground music and use it to sound
hip.  
So what is it anyway, and do we care here at the idm list?

------------------------Izzo cares......