The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

jamieanderson1968 said:
It’s not bad, but also not earth shattering. My wife calls it hip restaurant music.

Definitely more on the poppy end of the trip-hop / illbient spectrum. You won’t confuse it with Massive Attack or Portishead
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Looking over trip hop albums lists, I often wonder how often albums (like this) that are hard to pin down to a genre get labeled as Trip Hop. Like I get why endtroducing ends up on these lists, but it is pure hip hop through and through and more an influence on Trip Hop than an actual Trip Hop album.
 
MyWifeHatesTrain said:
Looking over trip hop albums lists, I often wonder how often albums (like this) that are hard to pin down to a genre get labeled as Trip Hop. Like I get why endtroducing ends up on these lists, but it is pure hip hop through and through and more an influence on Trip Hop than an actual Trip Hop album.
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Fully agree. Trip-hop can be a big MISC category.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Fully agree. Trip-hop can be a big MISC category.
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Electronic music was one of the tough genres from me to wrap my head around when I was first getting into music. Rock, Jazz, Pop, Country, etc. were all varied but I would get the gist but Electronic seemed too varied to make much sense. Like MTV was pushing Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk and Portishead and Electric music but when I would tag along with my raver friends to a party this was completely different from the house music that would play there. Electronic music as a genre almost feels like a “catch all” for band with electronic elements but that doesn’t fit neatly with another genre.
 
dbarila said:
I don't think I've ever heard 2 Trip Hop bands that sound even close to the same.
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I can draw lines from Massive Attack to Portishead to morcheeba though. There are a few songs here that connect, but some of this is ambient, some is big beat, some is straight up Techno. There was even one piece that edged on house. It’s fine to have elements of other things going on but this is a little too eclectic and it’s not like he is using those other sounds to supplement a broader Trip Hop sound. It plays like a Mixmag sampler from 97. He seems like an all arounder not a specialist. I actually bet when he DJed back in the day it was a lot of fun because it wasn’t just the one thing (which is what is great about a Chrmical brothers DJ set)
 
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