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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Synth-pop, trip-hop, R&B and djent are all ingredients to this LP, however, the brooding djent guitars and intricate progressive metal drumming are the most consistent elements that crop up throughout this album.
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Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Despite threats of looming rain, trip-hop heads, ambient angels, indie fans, and ravers spent four days bringing the energy to three venues across the Mexican capital.
—E.r. Pulgar, Pitchfork, 6 May 2025
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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.
—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
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Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Despite threats of looming rain, trip-hop heads, ambient angels, indie fans, and ravers spent four days bringing the energy to three venues across the Mexican capital.
—E.r. Pulgar, Pitchfork, 6 May 2025
Explore Mexican Institute of Sound See latest videos, charts and news
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.
—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
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