Yeah, I've heard of Portishead. Any album specifically?
Both are good, but if you don't have any yet, start with Dummy.
Trip-hop's a pretty broad genre though. You might need to experiment a bit and see where your tastes lie other than MA, Portishead and Tricky.
Lamb's self titled's pretty good. Has a lot of drum 'n bass in it.
Goldfrapp's album
Felt Mountain is fantastic, but the stuff they did after tha album is wildly different.
Felt Mountain has a definite Bond quality about it, and it's melancholic as hell!!!
UNKLE's
Psyence Fiction is also worth a try, since it's pretty varied in what it's trying to do. It's got a sort of...all star team in James Lavelle, DJ Shadow, Thom Yorke, and more.
Kruder and Dorfmeister. Weed smokers de-luxe. There's a great doubl album called
The K & D Sessions I can recommend. Of course, if you say that fast, it sounds like "The Candy Sessions".
Zero 7 and
Air are both really good too. Although not strictly trip hop, they often find themselves lumped in there for good measure.
Air has a great deal of breezy, 70's french pop in it as well as influences of pioneering forms of 70 electronica. Nice.
Zero 7 is really nice downtempo stuff with loooovely instrumentation. They always use at least 3 vocalists per album so you do't get tired of any one voice. One of the vocalists has a strange voice though.
Thievery Corporation. Bunch of weed smokers, bless them, mixing dub, aid jazz, indian and brazilian styles in with trip hop.
Morcheeba's
Who Can You Trust is also quite ok. Not jaw-droppingly brilliant, but it's nice enough. Standard, pretty trip hop that isn't challenging or particularly dark in any way, but it is chilled out, well done and nice to have on. Can't couch for the other albums as I heard a single of a later one that sucked ass so I didn't follow up on these guys.
Broadcast. Fucking fantastic. Electronica with heavy influences of The United States of America and early Pink Floyd (in oher words, 60's psychedelia), John Barry, Ennio Morricone, 60's acid french pop (if you know what I mean)....I highly recommend
The Noise Made By People, Work and Non-Work....hell, it's all very good. But it's not trip hop....just thought I'd throw it in here, since if you're going down this road, you might as well discover this now. hahahaha. And then if you like this, then
Pram and
Stereolab are definitely for you.
Some also like
The Sneaker Pimps and
Hooverphonic. Try them out as well, if you're curious. I used to have a Sneaker Pimps record, but sold it as I lost interest pretty quickly. But that's just me. Ditto with Hooverphonic.
I have more up my sleeve. Much, much more, but I think this will do for now, before I get to the lounge and exotica influenced stuff.
