The OFFICIAL Trip Hop Thread

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Originally Posted by Jester

Okay, why should DJ Shadow be labeled trip hop?

Because genres evolve. And what Jackhammer said above.

Originally Posted by SATCHMO

I went through my itunes yesterday and simplified my genre classification system by taking all electronic music that isn't hip hop and labeling it "BEATS". The genre snobbery is really giving me a migraine.

I keep my electronic stuff categorized VERY simply...

Electronic - All electronic music that's not that danceable, like IDM for example. Head music.
Electronica/Dance (one of the default tags) - The more accessible, popular, and dancey stuff (includes house, breaks, DnB, etc basically anything you could dance to)
Trip-Hop - Basically everything described in this thread...from Massive Attack to DJ Shadow and Prefuse 73 (though I'm reconsidering the stuff like Prefuse...with the increased popularity of the term "glitch hop" I may have to create a new tag for that style)
Hip-Hop - Instrumental hip-hop (basically electronic beats) that doesn't quite fit under the trip-hop umbrella (I use the "Hip-Hop/Rap" tag for vocal hip-hop)