Fab, You Weary? Take the Leap, Trip 29

Strange day indeed! Let's take a leap...

 

It turns out that the purveyors of my favorite Trip-hop of the 21st Century are ''acts we've known for all these year''. The Sneaker Pimps 2021 release shared earlier this month is a prime example. Every Morcheeba release since Skye re-appeared on that horizon. Even Portishead's long awaited Third. But in my opinion, the artist at the Trip-hop top is none other than Lonely Guest.

Who???

Lonely Guest!

Who the F??? is that, you might ask. 

The inadvertent progenitor of the genre. The author of a paean to his mother Maxine Quaye who is nearly God . It is but another nom de musique for Adrian Thaws, the Tricky one. 

When I first heard Lonely Guest's self-titled, I was blown away. This is a work of sheer genius. As I have listened to it many many times, I am certain it is one of the best Trip-hop album ever (right up there with Tricky's first) as well as one of the best albums of any genre I have ever heard. The things that M. Tricky does with sounds & words & beats & the human voice-as-musickal-instrument are nothing less than spectacular.

Like many other musicians, Tricky had been expecting to be on the road throughout 2020 (promoting his Fall to Pieces release). But as we all know, the Covid lockdowns put the kybosh to those plans. He then started to collaborate with other artists, realizing they could work together without physically BEING together. Thus Lonely Guests, the "self-titled" album released in 2021 on Tricky's label False Idols featuring collaborations with Marta Zlakowska, Joe Talbot, Oh Land, Murkage Dave, Lee Perry, Rina Mushonga, Kway, Paul Smith, & Breanna Barbara.

Listen to this with a clear & open mind & please let me know what you think. This whole Trip-hop magilla has led to this climactic moment. Play it Loud! Hit atmosphere! 

 

Lonely Guest - Lonely Guest, False Idols, 2021.

Lonely Guest featuring Marta
Pre War Tension featuring Joe Talbot, Marta, & Tricky
Under featuring Oh Land
Pay My Taxes featuring Murkage Dave
Atmosphere featuring Lee Scratch Perry,Marta, & Tricky
Move Me featuring Marta
Pipe Dreams featuring Rina Mushonga
On a Move featuring Kway
Christmas Trees featuring Paul Smith
Big Bang Blue featuring Breanna Barbara

Enjoy the best Trip,
NØ

Fab, Trip 28

All of you familiar with this mess know my love of Dub. So, applying the Theory of Half Dub with the other half made up of portions of hip-hop, soul, breakbeat...whatever gets thrown into the mix sounds like it oughta come out with some sweet Trip-hop to my feeble reckoning. Give it a ear, what do you hear???

 

Half Dub Theory came together as a band in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2006. The band is made up of: Marina Skalozub - vocals; Max Kubbe - guitars, vocals; & Andrey Bolshakov - synthesizers, samplers, turntables. Their music combines Dub, soul, jungle, hip-hop, indie rock, & glitch. They have drawn comparisons with the original Bristol sound. They have toured extensively & shared stages with Massive Attack & Robin Guthrie to name-drop a couple...

Half Dub Theory - Value, 2015
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Clockwise
Secretly
Cannon
Leave
Move
Cut Loose
Iron
Praise
Name
Shadows
Move (part two)

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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Don't get me wrong here, but our next artist gets it Rong all the time, yet she get's it oh so rite, right?.. 

 

FiFi Rong is a Chinese-British vocalist, songwriter, & producer. Her musical vision was forged in the crucible of her journey from China to the UK alone at age 16. Upon arrival in the UK, she set about exploring the potentials she was forced to repress growing up in China. It was only after she met her childhood musical hero Tricky, who saw FiFi's potential & encouraged her to pursue it, that she began to truly gain confidence in her own work. Her music deftly highlights the duality that merges Eastern roots with Western experience.

FiFi uniquely weaves emotional intimacy & vulnerability into her distinctive sonic vision. She manages to effortlessly blend Trip-hop with elements of alt. pop, R&B, electronica, IDM, avant-garde, & UK Bass, enveloping her unmistakable vocals in this mesmerising tapestry.

Her impressive collaborations include renowned artists such as Skepta, with her vocals gracing his hugely successful UK No. 2 & Mercury Prize-winning album, Konnichiwa. She has also worked with Tricky, Yello (on their chart-topping albums Point & Toy), Phaeleh, & the late Lee 'Scratch' Perry.

Here are a couple early ones, Fifi's debut full-length & an EP from the following year.

 

Fifi Rong - Wrong, FiFi Rong self-released, 2013.
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Addicted to Water    
Only if I Knew    
56 Weeks    
Wrong    
I Need the World to End    
That Night
Twisted    
Time    
Cliff    
For You    
Freedom    
Hurt outa Sudden    
Dreamy Eyes    
Ever Rising Sun

 

 

 

 

Fifi Rong - Next Pursuit EP, FiFi Rong self-released, 2014.

Next Pursuit featuring Sadsic
Intimacy    
Breathless featuring OP9
Wishes' Fault     
Cold in You
Equality featuring Sadsic

 

 

 

 

Addendum: 

 

As a favor to a loyal visitor & contributor to this blog, I am adding a coupla tunes to this post. I wanted him to know that Nothin' was Rong (pun intended). Here is a post-CoTR Telstar single & an Telstar Ep from Monk & Canatella so that this Triphopuary has an M/C.

 

Monk & Canatella - Son 4.5.98, Telstar STAS3025, 1998.

Son 4.5.98
The Bearded One
Darkus Unplug Yourself

 

 

 

 

Monk & Canatella - Enter the Monk EP, Telstar CDSTAS3039, 1999.

Enter the Monk (radio mix)
Monday    
My Style    
Duty Free    
Enter the Monk (original mix)

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

Fab, Trip 26

For those who have stayed the course this month, thanks for bearing with another of my obsessions. Trying to ramp things up to a big climax. Heading forward in time to the newest era of Trip-hop...today's Trip-hop. Give this Belle a wring. 

 

Anomie Belle is the performing name of Toby Campbell of Seattle, Washington, a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, producer, & political artivist who uses her artistic talents to fight against injustice & oppression by any medium necessary. She began writing & recording her own music as a child, developing a uniquely personal eclectic avant-garde musical style.

She has collaborated with many noted musicians, both Bonobo & Tricky in the Trip-hop vein. Her music is a mix of electronic & organic instrumentation, fiercely sensual vocals with thickly layered, ethereal soundscapes.

Her artivism has been described as "beautiful desocialization". Her songs are critical of blind adherence to consumerism. They're smoky & sultry yet champion individuality & critical thinking.

Toby sez:
     "I grew up in your prototypical American suburb. The manicured lawns, strip mall parking lots, chain stores, and massive expanses of cement and housing developments depressed me. I chose the moniker Anomie Belle to speak to the decadent alienation of the American dream. Growing up, music became my outlet. Bored by video games and dollhouses, I plunked away on my parent's piano for hours at a time, teaching myself to play blues riffs and writing little pop songs."  

 

Anomie Belle - The Crush, Anomie Belle self-released, 2011.
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Electric Lullaby   
Inky Drips
Machine
It's a Crush   
Mosquito in the Closet   
Bodies Offering   
Picture Perfect
Lost Horizon
Privilege
On TV   
Lavender Days   
Phantom

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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Last October I shared Statik Sound Systems - Tempesta. Got some good response to that so thought I'd share another of their releases here. This is a little less breakbeat & a bit more Trip-hop. While Tempesta was on Cup of Tea Records, by the time of this release CoTR had ceased operation. Statik Sound System had moved on to Remote Records for this one. 

 

Statik Sound System - My Ooh-Zik, Remote Records REMCD001, 2001.
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Hazey Funk
Wrap
Set Me Free
Sublime    
Wired
Hazey Dub
Just a Thing    
Deep in the Wired    
My Voice

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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Apologies to all. Purple Penguin - De-Tuned has been re-uploaded because of duplicate track 9 & 10. For those who don't want to download the entire album, the track 10 "So High" can be downloaded from link in comments. 

 

 

Just another Cup of Tea...Cup of Tea Records release, that is. 

 

Just a couple of Bristol boys, hip-hop/breaks producers get together & make a Purple Penguin. Scott Hendy & Ben Dubuisson produced some of the finest Cup of Tea sounds out there.

This is a smooth combination of Dub & Trip-hop with some sharp musical & rhythmic production: lots of slowed jazz riffs; well chosen B-movie samples; ethnic chants; & crisp beats. 

 

Purple Penguin - De-Tuned, Cup of Tea Records COTCD 004, 1996.
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Tombstone
Only   
Mountain
Tribhuwan
No Action
New Harlem   
Mute Noise
Razor
Passion (Dadomo remix)
So High
Pressue (remix)
Memphis
End Theme

 

 

 

 

Purple Penguin - Question, Cup of Tea Records COTCD019, 1998.

Intro, Opening Question
B-Drum
Melody
Return
Descendent
Non Deadly
Raw Deal
Apollo
Indoctrination
Western Interlude   
Diamond
Dust
Closing Question

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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Going back to the heyday of mid-90s Trip-hop, we have Baby Fox: Alex Gray, Christine Leach, Dwight Clarke. Christine & Dwight both sing & wrote the lyrics, with Christine doing the lead vocals. Dwight also played keyboards. Alex's forte was sampling/sequencing/mixing.

Baby Fox took elements of Dub & blues to create an off-beat, slightly eerie atmosphere. Not being on one of the genres "respected" labels or from Bristol, the group fought an uphill battle for recognition. They created capable groove-oriented dance music. The beats, the rhythms, the personality, the samples were all great but they proved to not be groundbreaking or breathtaking enough. They released only two full-length offerings before disbanding. This is their swan-song. 

 

Baby Fox - Dum Dum Baby, Roadrunner Records RR 8733-2, 1998.
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Dum Dum Baby
Heaven's Gate    
The Rookery Part 1
The Rookery Part 2
Nearly Beautiful
Zodiac    
Bad Girl Love    
Bluebird
Fury to Forgiveness    
Rainy London Sunday
Hallow'een    
Still Point    
That's the Way it Is
The Line's Cleared    
Naked Hour

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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Maybe it's something in the water??? 

 

Another Trip-hop duo from Toronto. 

Sissy come on strong with a fearless, uncompromising sound that combines the exquisite disquiet of singer Johanne Williams' vocals with the discordantly melodic, electronic landscapes that producer & multi-instrumentalist David Trusz creates. 

The group utilizes old-school Moogs, Oberheims, tape-delay machines, & band-pass filters as anti-digital calling cards, yet Trusz's deployment of ominous booms, echoes, & superlow (20?) beats-per-minute rhythm tracks along with Williams' breathy yet vaguely threatening scatty vocals are what set Sissy apart from the pack. This one is defintely top notch. 

 

Sissy - March of the Humans, Four O’Clock Sun Recordings FOSR0001, 2012.

Home
Long Distance
Acid Cake
Fool Around
On My Own
All a Waste
Imminent Rampage
Other Ways
All of Me
Expiry Date
Stay

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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I am so glad to welcome back this band. It's been nearly twenty years since their last release. Back in August 2018 I shared an in-depth post of the Sneaker Pimps. 

 

Their SP4 demos from 2004 was originally given to a record label, only to be refused, thus making it unreleased. It's initial name was Recall, but was later retitled simply SP(Sneaker Pimps)4. This rejected fourth album was released on the Sneaker Pimps website, back when it was functioning. There was a surreptitiously leaked seven track that popped up on a music player in a bar in Russia sometime around 2005-2006 that was after years verified as a legit Sneaker Pimps recording, which keyboardist Liam Howe confirmed as The Magnificent Seven.

Then low & behold, in 2021 an all new Sneaker Pimps - Squaring the Circle was released. Here it is in all its glory, confirming once more that the great Trip-hop acts can still get it done the right way.

I can't really say enough about this fantastic disc. With incredibly precise instrumentation & inspired lyrics from Liam Howe & Chris Corner, this release is on par with Becoming X, Splinter, or Bloodsport. The Pimps have not missed a beat. Corner's vocals are sounding stronger than even "Loretta Young Silks" & teamed with new vocalist Simonne Jones, they are nothing less than perfection. I feel that "Stripes" may be the best song the band has ever done, but listen for yourself & decide. I'll stop blathering now. 

 

Sneaker Pimps - Squaring the Circle, Unfail Productions, 2021.
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Fighter    
Child in the Dark    
Alibis    
So Far Gone    
Immaculate Hearts    
No Show    
The Tranquillity Trap    
SOS    
Stripes    
The Paper Room    
Black Rain    
Love Me Stupid
Lifeline    
Pink Noise    
Come Like the Cure    
Squaring the Circle

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

Album Hot Flash

While I've been doing this Trip-hop thing, I've been listening to that band from Liverpool on heavy rotation lately. 

You know them, right...The Beatowls. 

 

Violette Records sez:
     "Beatowls’ hall of mirrors reflects the DIY approach of Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland, warps The XX’s millenial longing onto Portishead’s sense of the sinister & distorts Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood’s trippy idealism with the skewed romanticism & foreboding of Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch, Broadcast & Warp Records.

     The band push boundaries with their creative exploration, reflecting the hustle & bustle of Liverpool’s urban-industrial mood & the introspective serenity of life."

Their 2023 Marma album is the best thing I've heard in a while. Here's a tune from that release. All I can recommend is check it out, buy it, support this great new band. 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

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Bet you didn't know Doris Day did Trip-hop. Well, now you know... 

 

This Doris Day is a band from Linköping, Sweden, formed in 1989. It is the brainchild of Markus Gylling along with friends Lisa Carlioth, Brigid Raine, & Mike Barrett. Around this same time they had been making alternative soundtracks or, as they called them, "romantic interpretations" of some of their favorite 50s American movies. Lisa, already a promising singer, was used on some tracks, while the boys sang or toasted on others. The project went through numerous stops & starts until the autumn of 1996 when they released their debut full-length album Live in Poland. 

 

Doris Day - Live in Poland, Some Pearls PEACD01, 1996.
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I Wait in Warsaw (intro)    
To Ulrike M.    
Stranger    
Postcard from Rome    
This Girl I Had    
To Janusz    
The Cryer    
Scubadivers    
Quiet Withdrawal    
Mama's Motel (outro)

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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Sola Rosa is the on-going, ever-evolving project of Andrew Spraggon, Aotearoa New Zealand's foremost, critically acclaimed & successful beat-maker, songwriter / producer.

After six years in the band Cicada, Andrew wanted to explore other avenues in his own music journey. He decided to embarked on a new musical project. In 1998, Spraggon took a trip to Mexico, a country that had always held great fascination for him. The trip not only influenced his music, but also his decision about what to call his new project. He put together the Spanish words for rose-colored sun Sol & Rosa, then added the 'a' to make Sola as it flowed better off the tongue.

His version of Trip-hop is a quiet blend of New Zealand & Mexican influences that make it ideally unique.

About his music, Andrew sez:
     "In the 80s I grew up with synth pop, then a lot of post-punk. Things took a turn in the 90s when my influences changed and I started to dig artists like Funkadelic, James Brown and Public Enemy. Shortly after this I discovered labels such as Ninja Tune, Mo' Wax, Guidance and a series of compilations called Dope On Plastic. I was also heavily influenced by producers like David Holmes, DJ Shadow and Howie B." 

 

Sola Rosa - Haunted Out-takes, Festival Mushroom Records, 2003.
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Awish    
Ready Now    
Easy / Uneasy    
Scratch Apprentice    
No More Rain    
Terrorgosa    
Go Underground    
Sleepwalker    
Sugarlines
Deep Water
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Haunted Out-take

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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Steve Cobby is The Solid Doctor. Like DJ Shadow who started off this journey, the Solid Doctor is one of the progenitors of Trip-hop. He formed the seminal Hull-based Trip-hop label Pork Recordings with his friend & fellow Hullster Dave Pork in 1991. 

 

Cobby now mainly releases under the names Fila Brazillia & Heights of Abraham, but early on he released numerous singles as The Solid Doctor. His blending of Dub, funk, hip-hop, & house drew critical attention & paved the way for such labels as Mo'Wax & Cup of Tea. The Solid Doctor's material finds a comfortable spot between the dancefloor & the Hi-Fi.

In 1995 Cobby released a two CD collection of his many singles. The Doctor sure knows his meds. He puts the Trip into the hip. 

 

Solid Doctor - How about Some Ether (Collected Works 93-95) 2xCD,
Pork Recordings, PORK 25, 1995.
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Cracked Emerald CD1 -   
U-Turn   
Short Wave   
Holy Roller
Spicey Pipe   
Anomie
Lights on the Vibe   
O Say Krevlon   
Pickyparkdickbods   
The Room is Breathing
Dusk   
When I'm Dead
Bye Bye   
I Love Life 

 

 

Sapphire CD2 -
Armed to the Teeth   
Jet Smooth   
Ether   
Invisible Sunlit Snow   
Cerulean Reverie   
Mixamatosis
Land of Dope & Tory
Ninety One Campion   
Tomato   
Slipping into Another Dimension   
A Moving Family of Suns

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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By the mid 00s numerous UK bands had rekindled an interest in Trip-hop. One of the purest was Second Person.  Like the band Mudville who recorded in the same time period, many of these second wave of Trip-hop bands were clumped under the label post-Trip hop.

 

Julia Johnson (keyboards & vocals) met Mark Maclaine (bass & programming) in 2002. They worked together on music & soon hooked up with Alvaro Lopez (drums & programming) to fill out the group. Their debut album Chromatography was released in 2004. It sold out of its initial white-label run in United Kingdom, USA, & Australia primarily through word of mouth. 

 

Second Person - Chromatography, Second Person 001, 2004.
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Too Cold to Snow   
Demons in the Scenery   
No Window   
I Spy   
Wreckage   
Demons Die   
Word for Word   
Nerve   
My Baby Only Cares for Me   
Senseless Sentences   
Divine   
Lucky Breaks   
Grace   
Harry: Walkies

 

 

 

 

The band released their second, The Elements EP in 2007 with the help of veteran producer/engineer Tony Platt (Bob Marley, Iron Maiden, & the second largest selling album of all time: AC/DC's Back in Black). Second Person were the first British band to have raised the $50,000 target on Sellaband which allowed fans to invest directly in bands online.

 

Second Person - The Elements EP, Sellaband, 2007.

Wood   
Fire   
Earth   
Metal   
Water

 

 

 

 

The band announced their split in April 2011 as they released of their third & final offering, Come to Dust. By this point they had perfected the true Trip-hop sound. Their best album by far & away. Songs like "The Alphabet Song" are sublime. Gone fishing, I guess, come to dust.

 

Second Person - Come to Dust, Second Person, 2011.

Gone Fishing
The Alphabet Song
Another Girlfriend
Paper Umbrella
Unretractable Facts
Play Fair
The Wishbone
Story with Only Two Characters
Spilt Milk
Moth to a Candle Flame
Four Leaf Clover
Shadow of a Doubt
Giant Steps (bonus track)

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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NajwaJean is the Spanish duo of Spanish/Jordanian singer Najwa Nimri & multi-instrumentalist  Carlos Jean. They formed in 1996 & released their first album No Blood in 1998. This debut album was a commercial success, showcasing their ability to incorporate elements of Trip-hop with their own personal style.

NajwaJean - No Blood, Subterfuge Records, 1998.
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Dead for You
Mind Your Head
I Have Not Blood
The Wild Bunch
Behind the Child
Like Those Roses
Smile
Take a Break
Crying
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

Ten years later, still making wonderful music...

 

NajwaJean - Till it Breaks, Capitol Records, 2008.

Illness
For Me Tonight
Crime
Death Warm
I Wish the Cat Could Talk
Hookers
Gold Note
Frontier
Don't Try
Singing
Drive Me
Wanna Be

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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Simon Green is from Brighton, England. He records under the name Bonobo. Although usually regarded as a Trip-hop artist, I think his musical influences are more alternative rock & world music. Beginning with the release of his second full-length Dial 'M' for Monkey (June 2003) he has been aligned with the Ninja Tune label. Ninja Tune was at the forefront of the original Bristol Trip-hop sound.

Bonobo is based out of Los Angeles these day. The set I am sharing here is a live one from his tour in support of The North Borders with a selection of songs off of Days to Come, Black Sands, & The North Borders. Bonobo tours with a full band & various vocalist. I feel this is his closest to the true heart of Trip-hop.

Bonobo - The North Borders Tour Live, Ninja Tune ZENCD202, 2014.
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Cirrus
Stay the Same featuring Andreya Triana
Heaven for the Sinner featuring Szjerdene
Prelude
Kiara
Ten Tigers
Kong
Ketto
Emkay
Towers featuring Szjerdene
Recurring
We Could Forever
Transits featuring Szjerdene
Know You
Pieces featuring Cornelia

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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A Valentine’s day offering of sweet shadows...

Two Philadelphia-based brothers Travis & Steven Fogelman had a dream. Their dream was to create the perfect Trip-hop band. The only thing was that they needed a singer. So they put an ad on an online musician's board looking one.

At the same time Natalie Walker was attending a small college in Indianapolis. She had been in a funk/folk trio in high school but now her bandmates had gone their separate ways (Jeremy to Berklee School of Music in Boston & Kyle to University of Indiana). Natalie was studying humanities & looking for an outlet for her talent when she came across an ad for "singer wanted". 

 

She contacted Travis Fogelman. He & Steve showed her a sample of a song they were working on. Natalie loved it & within a few short days "Sad & Lonely" was written, completed, & recorded. & the rest is Daughter Darling.

Well, not exactly. It took over a year for Travis to talk Natalie into uprooting her life & moving to Philadelphia to take a chance on their musical future. But since this is a Valentine love story, well, everything worked out great & Daughter Darling was formed.

In 2002 they released their debut album.

 

Daughter Darling - Sweet Shasows, Plain Jane Records, 2002.
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Broken Bridge   
Shattered   
Let Me Speak   
Absconding   
Mermaid   
Sad & Lonely   
Things Untold   
Voodoo Games   
You Won't See Me   
Sweet Shadows   
Dust in the Wind (Kansas cover)

Sweet Shadow turned out to be Daughter Darling's only release, but Natalie has gone on to a solo career with numerous full-length, EPs, & singles. She also formed & is vocalist for the Brooklyn downtempo group Mouchette who's latest release was 2020s Late Bloomer.

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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Perfume Tree were originally a group of disc jockeys from Vancouver, Canada working out of the University of British Columbia's campus radio station, CITR. Their live shows were a blending of Throbbing Gristle's style industrial music, Dub, & hip hop. The core trio of Pete Lutwyche - samples, guitar, beats; Jane Tilley - vocals, guitar; & Bruce Turpin - mix, samples got together in 1991, taking the name Perfume Tree. Their blend of industrial, hip-hop, & Dub with female vocalist was a near perfect duplicate of the basic template of UK Trip-hop. 

 

Perfume Tree - Feeler, World Domination Recordings WDM 10074-2, 1998.
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Can't You?
Both Oceans
Flooded   
A Million Things   
Too Early, Too Late
Warm Sun Fingers   
Instantaneous   
Been There   
Home

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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Rapidly rising among the stars of Trip-hop, releasing two good albums, & then living up to their unfortunately chosen name & taking a Swandive...the Swiss Trip-hop band. 

 

Swandive was founded in 1995 by Marco Neeser (Sky Antinori), Lorenz Haas, & Ann Kathrin Lüthi. In 1999, Ivan Engler & Ali Salvioni joined the band. In their short life-span they were highly successful in their native Switzerland & toured extensively in Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, & Austria, sharing headlining billing with the likes of Olive & Faithless. However, citing clashing creative differences, they parted ways in 2002. They performed their final live show at Xtra Limmathaus, Zurich on Feb. 02, 2002.

On Intuition, Swandive are Ann Kathrin Lüthi, Lorenz Haas & Marco Neeser. 

 

Swandive - Intuition, Earforce EF 294-2, 1997.
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Left
Solitary Swimming   
Demunication   
Inner Man
Nutopian Days   
If I Scream   
The Game   
Losing My Religion   
Bathroom Pain   
Finally   
As You Are   
Innocent   
Exit 101

 

 

 

 

On Anyone on the Air?, Swandive are Ann Kathrin Lüthi, Marco Neeser, Lorenz Haas, & Ali Salvioni. 

 

Swandive - Anyone on the Air?, Earforce EF 302-2, 2000.

Fall   
On the Air   
Thorn   
Killer   
Too Far   
Oblivion   
Today   
A Kind of Escape, Part I   
A Kind of Escape, Part II   
Bipol   
Gold   
Venus   
Perfect   
Being in Two Places at the Same Time   
Narvik - Kirkenes

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ

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Finally we get to our first entry in the third wave of Trip-hop. Starting in the early 10s until the present, this wave of Trip-hop utilizes many of the more modern studio techniques to add the hip-hop stylings to the sound. I am least familiar with this era Trip-hop.

 

Ramon Arnella is a Barcelona based recording artist & producer who goes by the stage name Plastic Teardrops. His music is heavily influenced by Massive Attack & Portishead through his fusion of Trip-hop & Downtempo.

This is Plastic Teardrop's first release. Ramon mixes acoustic instruments with digital effects in a perfect ratio.

 

Plastic Teardrops - Close to the Ground, self-released, 2019.
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Falling Together   
Just Drive   
Save The World    
There Is No Escape   
The Only One
Next Level
Won't Give Up
Without You
To Survive
You Saved Me

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ