August 21st, 2010 | by Cory Zechmann | published in electronic, hip-hop, trip hop | 1 comment
Air 2 A Bird’s first LP, Crow Hill, has an interesting theme to it. Along with their group/album name, their instrumentals center around birds.
trip hop
Dirty Vegas – Days Go By (MiMOSA Remix)
August 19th, 2010 | by Kyle Suss | published in electronica, remixes, trip hop | 2 comments
If you haven’t yet heard of MiMOSA, keep him on your radar because he is blowing up fast. His newest release, the Your Love EP, is a testament to his progression as an artist into a more mature sound than his earlier work.
July 19th, 2010 | by Taylor Fife | published in dreamwave/chillwave, electro pop, indie pop, trip hop | 4 comments
Baths’ first full-length, Cerulean, is creative electropop features the shuffling, ratcheting rhythms of other L.A. experimental electronica and dubstep artists like Flying Lotus and Shlomo. But instead of wobbling basslines and peculiar sounds, Baths layers poppy synth hooks, catchy vocals, and easy to digest samples over his broken beats.
March 29th, 2010 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in electronic, trip hop | 4 comments
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear/read the word “bonobo”? The endangered great ape found only in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Simon Green, a British musician, producer and DJ. If it was the great ape, perhaps you haven’t heard of Simon Green. Let me introduce him to you: under the moniker “Bonobo”, he uses a wide variety of samples combined with heavy, often complex basslines to create some of the most awesome downtempo trip-hop around.
February 13th, 2010 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in alternative, female vocalists, folktronica, trip hop | 1 comment
ased out of Helsinki, Finland, the five-piece group fuses alternative with trip hop, ultimately producing a pop sound reminiscent of Emiliana Torrini or a down-tempo Metric. The result is perfectly fitting for the terribly gloomy, winter weather that has gripped Washington, D.C. for the last few weeks. Ship of Light is their third release, following a reasonable amount of success with their sophomore release on Catskill, Ghost is Not Real.
Emancipator – Safe in the Steep Cliffs
February 1st, 2010 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in ambient, instrumental, house, trip hop | no comments
Chill out. Seriously. Put those legs up, get a cup of warm tea, and melt to the sounds of Emancipator’s new album, Safe in the Steep Cliffs. You will be greeted by “dense layers of choirs, horns, American folk instruments such as the banjo and mandolin, violin and some distinct Asian influences make for a playful but refined album built out of intricate tracks listeners can enjoy on as many levels as they want. Dance to it, chill out to it, immerse your mind in it. It really doesn’t matter.”
December 14th, 2009 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in instrumental, house, math-rock, trip hop | 1 comment
Formed in 2000, Toe is often lumped into the post-rock genre, though it is probably more appropriate to call them math-rock/instrumental (with occasional singing). While their sound is often melancholic and guitar-driven, the true beauty can be found in the frantically tight drumming of Kashikura Takashi, whose unpredictable beats seamlessly tie together the acoustically pleasing arrangements throughout this, their first release in three years.
Prefuse 73 – Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
December 1st, 2009 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in electronic, instrumental, house, trip hop | 1 comment
When I initially saw that this album had 29(!!) tracks, I was a little taken back. Turns out (unsurprisingly), that the majority of those tracks don’t pass the 1 minute length, with the whole work clocking in at just under 50 minutes. While that means that there is an intense amount of variety throughout this album, it all flows so smoothly that in many instances, the short bursts could be combined into one song.
Emiliana Torrini – Me and Armini
November 26th, 2009 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in alternative, female vocalists, folktronica, trip hop | 2 comments
An Icelandic female-vocalist doing something along the lines of a folk, downtempo Zero 7. You interested yet? Hell, just hit the play button to listen to Jungle Drum. Better yet, try out the second song I’ve got listed below, as that truly showcases the trip hop feel featured in much of this album. Me and Armini is Emilíana Torrini’s seventh full-length album, released in September 2008.
