trip-hop
noun
: electronic dance music usually based on a slow hip-hop beat and incorporating hypnotic synthesized and prerecorded sounds
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Karen y Los Remedios became a captivating revelation in Latin indie with their 2023 nine-track debut album Silencio, a darkly poetic blend of eerie cumbia rhythms and subtle trip-hop influences.
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Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2025
Essential Portishead Album Dummy (1994) is the quintessential trip-hop masterpiece.
—Darryn King, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
Her eclectic compositions—one of which features a very modern dose of Auto-Tune—evoke film noir, trip-hop, and Lovers Deluxe-era Sade.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 8 Dec. 2024
On their debut full-length, Latin Mafia — comprised of siblings Mike (producer), Emilio (singer) and Milton (singer) De La Rosa — excavates its roots while experimenting with indie rock, grunge, and ethereal trip-hop, all meshed with thrilling unpredictability.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2024
Her spectral trip-hop incantations are a departure from the maximalist, four-on-the-floor Brat bops ripping through the internet.
—Suzy Exposito, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
The serpentine trip-hop track lives somewhere in the haze between haunting and euphoric, with a warmth and sensuality that permeate the spectral space beneath pinku’s soft, siren-like voice.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
Its blend of drum and bass, trip-hop and other electronic music genres found a fan base in different parts of the world.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
Her work over the years has ranged from pop, folk-rock, trip-hop, electronica and reggaeton to cumbia, ranchera, mariachi, bolero and banda.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
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Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2025
Essential Portishead Album Dummy (1994) is the quintessential trip-hop masterpiece.
—Darryn King, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
Her eclectic compositions—one of which features a very modern dose of Auto-Tune—evoke film noir, trip-hop, and Lovers Deluxe-era Sade.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 8 Dec. 2024
On their debut full-length, Latin Mafia — comprised of siblings Mike (producer), Emilio (singer) and Milton (singer) De La Rosa — excavates its roots while experimenting with indie rock, grunge, and ethereal trip-hop, all meshed with thrilling unpredictability.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2024
Her spectral trip-hop incantations are a departure from the maximalist, four-on-the-floor Brat bops ripping through the internet.
—Suzy Exposito, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
The serpentine trip-hop track lives somewhere in the haze between haunting and euphoric, with a warmth and sensuality that permeate the spectral space beneath pinku’s soft, siren-like voice.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
Its blend of drum and bass, trip-hop and other electronic music genres found a fan base in different parts of the world.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
Her work over the years has ranged from pop, folk-rock, trip-hop, electronica and reggaeton to cumbia, ranchera, mariachi, bolero and banda.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
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“Trip-hop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trip-hop. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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