Trip Hop happened when Hip Hop got tired, moved to UK, closed the curtains, and started staring at the ceiling with an infinite cigarette. It walks slowly because it has seen things. Take Hip Hop drums, slow them until they confess, pour dub over the wounds, add soul vocals from someone who has stopped hoping, look at someone in the corner with unrecognizable eyes and there you are. Sexy before advertising found it, gloomy before playlists made gloom trendy, and cinematic before every sad car commercial tried to steal your belongings. Style for people who want to feel mysterious but are mostly just dehydrated.
1 
modulor mix
air
2 
overcome
tricky
3 
wayform one (so hard)
elegia
4 
operation mind control
skull vs ice
5 
air haze
richard file & ils
6 
all i need (extended version)
air
7 
flying away
smoke city
8 
another mother
the herbaliser
9 
one cup too many
3 bag brew
10 
sandman
deeskee
11 
34 ibiza spliff
aphex twin
12 
blue lights & blunts (instrumental)
l.
13 
arizona
2 player
14 
happy cycling
boards of canada
15 
oirectine
boards of canada
16 
turtle soup (wagon christ mix)
dj food
17 
monocline revised
dan piu
18 
smokin' japanese babe
far-out son of lung
19 
coffee talk
jazzanova
20 
teardrop
massive attack
21 
sour times
portishead
22 
secret
skull valley
23 
what is fight club?
the dust brothers
24 
heaven (you have to be seen in hell to see heaven mix)
the golden palominos
25 
brand new day
the mighty bop
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