Trip hop

Trip hop
Stylistic oreegins	House, electronica, R&B, dub, jazz, alternative hip hop, alternative dance, ambient, downtempo, chilloot, lounge, psychedelic rock, neo-psychedelia, alternative rock
Cultural oreegins	Early 1990s Bristol, Unitit Kinrick
Teepical instruments	Keybuirds (especially Rhodes), synthesizer, samplers, brass, turntables, strings, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, saxophone, flute
Subgenres
Illbient – Post-trip hop
Regional scenes
Bristol
Ither topics
Bristol unnergrund scene – Industrial hip-hop – Breakbeat – Nu jazz

Trip hop is a genre o electronic muisic that oreeginatit in the early 1990s in the Unitit Kinrick, especially Bristol. Derivin frae "post"-acid house, the term wis first uised bi the Breetish muisic media an press as a wey tae describe the mair experimental variant o breakbeat which conteenit influences o soul, funk an jazz. It haes been describit as "Europe's alternative choice in the seicont hauf o the '90s", an "a fusion o hip hop an electronica till neither genre is recognisable." Trip hop muisic fuses several styles an haes hintle in common wi ither genres; it haes several qualities seemilar tae ambient muisic an its drum-based breakdouns share characteristics wi hip hop. It conteens elements o R&B, dub an house an aw, as well as ither electronic muisic. Trip hop can be heichly experimental in natur.

See an aw

• Chill-oot muisic
• Leet o electronic muisic genres

Freemit airtins

• "Trip Hop Radio" Internet radio Archived 2013-06-18 at the Wayback Machine
• "Trip-Hop" Allmusic guide essay bi Sean Cooper
• "World of Trip Hop" Webpage Archived 2020-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Triptica - An internet Radio dedicated to Trip Hop Archived 2013-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
• NPR's history of trip hop