Trip hop

Trip-hop is a genre of downtempo music. It began as a mix of rock, jazz, dub, soul, and some other elements including psychedelic rock, ambient, progressive rock, acid jazz and alternative hip hop. It came from Bristol, England in the early 1990s; the group that started what has become to be called the Bristol sound was Massive Attack.

Trip hop
Stylistic origins	Hip hop, electronica, downtempo, jazz, dub, psychedelic rock, alternative rock
Cultural origins	Early 1990s Bristol, United Kingdom
Typical instruments	Keyboards (especially Rhodes), turntables, samplers, brass, strings, guitar, bass, drums, percussion
Subgenres
Illbient – Post-trip-hop (complete list)
Fusion genres
Trip rock
Regional scenes
Bristol
Other topics
Bristol underground scene – Industrial hip-hop – Breakbeat – Nu jazz

Trip Hop Media

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  Massive Attack, a British trip hop group that helped bring the genre to mainstream success in the 1990s

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  Tricky, a major trip hop artist

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  Björk, an artist who has often incorporated trip hop in her music