When the excitement over Detox started up again last year, Dr. Dre even teased his next, next album — an instrumental project called The Planets, with songs inspired by the “personalities of each ...

Trip-hop defined both the 90s and a certain British city. It set the blueprint for today's down-tempo sounds, so here's how you too can get trippy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Paranoia can change an artist. We see it in musicians who vanish for years at a time, unwilling to write the follow-up record their fans want. We see it with image-conscious experimental producers who ...

Bass plays a vital role in a trip-hop track. Much like trip-hop beats (which we've covered here), using bassline loops is a ...

Trip-hop is a style that’s highly dependent on its laid back feel and this is often achieved using slowed down sampled loops and breaks. Building your track from loops is definitely a valid approach, ...

Listen to songs from Portishead and Cibo Matto, plus inheritors like Fcukers and a.s.o. By David Renard Over the past couple of years, it’s started to feel like every out-of-favor electronic music ...