Recommend me some Electronica/TripHop

[YogSothoth]

Can somebody recommend me some electronica/trip-hop ? Something along the lines of the Sneaker Pimps and Portishead. I like to try and figure out the basslines and they're fun to play along with.

[Fishbrain]

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[velvetkevorkian]

Massive Attack, especially the album Mezzanine.

[SurrenderMonkey]

Massive Attack - Mezzanine. One of my favorite album of all time. It's just a jewel. Blue Lines and 100th window very good too. Protection is sligthly behind. The Protection Remix is awesome though. More of a dub vibe.
Solaris - Original Soundtrack. Tripy ambient.
Biosphere - Microgravity. Space ambient. Bit like Blade Runner / Solaris.
Bjork - Post. Probably the most accessible. Verspertine being my fave, but it's 'weird'
Tricky - Maxinquaye. A reference in the genre. It's got some stuff with basslines too.
Blade Runner - OST. Another reference in the genre.
Tricky - Product Of The Environment. Very weird spoken words + music. Famous English gansters re-telling their lives with ambient background.
Yann Tiersen - Le Phare. Weird mix of pop, classical, ambient. Same guy who did the Amelie Poulain OST.
Cinematic Orchestra - Remixes. Mix of trip hop, jazz and ambient. Very good. Remixes being my favorite.

mind you, there aren't many interesting basslines there Cinematic Orchestra being the most interesting, it's got lots of jazz influence. You can always improvise on top though. It's all good for tripy bass lines. Tricky has a more conventional format, and some cool basslines in there too.

[peteroberts]

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[Matt Till]

cLOUDDEAD is pretty good in this respect. Massive attack is the big one in this genre. I gotta check out SurrenderMonkey's list, sounds interesting.

Plaid, Autechre, Boards of Canada

I don't know, I don't know the genre(s) too well.

[Christopher]

Brazilian Girls. It's great stuff for bass players.

[SurrenderMonkey]

Originally Posted by Matt Till

cLOUDDEAD is pretty good in this respect. Massive attack is the big one in this genre. I gotta check out SurrenderMonkey's list, sounds interesting.

Plaid, Autechre, Boards of Canada

I don't know, I don't know the genre(s) too well.

Boards Of Canada, missed them

You can probably get samples from amazon. I also forgot, check out Aphex Twin ambient stuff.

[Baryonyx]

Originally Posted by SurrenderMonkey

Boards Of Canada, missed them

You can probably get samples from amazon. I also forgot, check out Aphex Twin ambient stuff.

Listening to the new Aphex Twin Ambient Works collection, there only seems to be one brilliant track, and thats Heliopsphan. Mind you, it is a stormer!

[Freaky Fender]

Dude

Boards of Canada-Music Has The Right To Children

That's really all you need.

Portishead pretty much wrote the book on triphop but they arn't electronica.

[SurrenderMonkey]

Originally Posted by Chris2112

Listening to the new Aphex Twin Ambient Works collection, there only seems to be one brilliant track, and thats Heliopsphan. Mind you, it is a stormer!

Yeah, I didn't point to one album in particular, I think the collections are a bit weak tbh, but he has some awesome ambient stuff. Some of it is, meh... It's just would not be my pick. There are some glaring misses in the Selected Ambient Work II, and lots of fillers.

I think the 85-92 collection is all right, if a bit too much DnB.

Oh, also Goldfrapp - Supernature. Not exactly trip-hop ambient, more like trip-pop. But definitely good to jam with. But this is sort of veering away from the original request

[SFjonstarr]

+1 on the Massive Attack. Awesome Basslines. Also I would try to check out DJ Shadow's Endtroducing and The Private Press. And perhaps the U.N.K.L.E. Psyence Fiction album. And maybe Lovage's "Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By."

[SFjonstarr]

Oh, and try to check out Kid Koala and pretty much anyone on the Ninja Tunes label.

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Originally Posted by SurrenderMonkey

Bjork - Post. Probably the most accessible. Verspertine being my fave, but it's 'weird'

Vespertine is also my favorite- it sounds weird if you're listening to it in the background, but if you immerse yourself in listening to it it's just magical. Homogenous is my second favorite of hers.

Mezzanine is also fantastic- I had to buy a second copy when my friend ran off to North Dakota with mine

[bryan bailey]

Fischerspooner
Dust Brothers (ala Fight Club Soundtrack)

[Baryonyx]

Originally Posted by bryan bailey

Fischerspooner

+1 to that!

Nothing like tearing around on Gran Turismo 4 listening to the Emerge remix!

While I'm hear, I suppose I'll name drop The Faint for being awesome!

[m.oreilly]

++1 BoC, massive attach, et al. (also have been enjoying "a guy called gerald", and "rea and christian", more downtempo, but some nice grooves. "tosca", "kruder and dorfmeister" too)

[gkbass13]

massive attackanddjshadow are awesome. nothing tops portishead for me though. check out the portishead live in NYC cd-one of my all time favorite discs.

[m.oreilly]

Originally Posted by gkbass13

...check out the portishead live in NYC cd-one of my all time favorite discs.

yep, very cool

[YogSothoth]

Thanks all, that outta be enough to keep me interested for a long time.