Episode 067｜What Is Trip-Hop? Echoes of Bristol and Urban Melancholy

Overview

Explore how trip-hop — the atmospheric downtempo sound born in Bristol, England — evolved from underground experimentation into a globally influential musical language. Emerging in the late 1980s and early 1990s from the city’s multicultural club and sound system culture, trip-hop fused hip-hop, dub, soul, jazz, and electronic textures into a uniquely introspective sonic form. This episode traces the sound’s origins, pioneers, stylistic hallmarks, and lasting influence on electronic and alternative music.

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