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Using Trip-Hop in your Project
Trip-Hop provides the soundtrack to countless hit movies from the 90s onwards.
It's a sound that you might not know by name, but you know it when you hear it.
It's in everything from teen movies to action blockbusters and most things in between.
Whatever category your film/video falls into, our collection of royalty-free music has got you covered.
What is Trip-Hop
Trip-Hop, in the most basic sense, is a blend of Hip-Hop and electronic music.
Both of those genres have lots of sub-genres, so it has a wide range of influences.
The band Massive Attack is often credited for creating Trip-Hop.
In the late 1980s, Massive Attack (formerly known as The Wild Bunch) was taking Bristol (UK) by storm with a new kind of groove.
The college town of Bristol isn't known for spawning many musical styles, but it does have a reputation for its love of the arts.
One of the most interesting things about Trip-Hop is that it is heavily influenced by cinema.
Trip-Hop has a real ambient quality to it; it's the kind of music you can lose yourself in, and that led creators to experiment with sounds and texture typically used to create an atmosphere in films.
In many ways, Trip-Hop and film are a perfect match.
If you take elements from Hip-Hop, Electronica, Jazz, Funk, and movie soundtracks, you'd have the elements of Trip-Hop.
But, with such vast and diverse influences, Trip-Hop is an expansive style in its own right.
The Art of Sampling
Despite its vast appeal, the art of sampling wasn't always widely available.
In the very early days of sampling, a unit like the Fairlight CMI would cost around $18,000.
By today's standards, the Fairlight CMI is very primitive, but at the time, sampling at 24kHz was revolutionary.
Manufacturers like Akai Professional made sampling affordable with their S950 and MPC units.
Sampling is something that is common in most styles of music these days, but Hip-Hop made it most popular.
Hip-Hop was the genre that turned sampling into a way to recycle ideas and place them in an entirely new context.
Producers like Dr Dre and J Dilla were central to the whole sampling movement.
With Trip-Hop being so heavily rooted in Hip-Hop, it's no surprise that sampling plays a considerable part in Trip-Hop production.
The great thing about sampling in Trip-Hop is that the samples come from so many places.
Trip-Hop producers take samples from George Clinton to Mozart and surround them with an ambient groove.
When to use Trip-Hop
Trip-Hop has a lot of motion from the groove; the drums tend to be relatively busy.
So, that kind of rhythm makes it great for action scenes, chase scenes, and anything with a lot of momentum.
However, when you go into melody and harmony, Trip-Hop is also very chilled-out.
As we have said, it's all about ambiance and losing yourself in the moment.
So, it would be fair to say that Trip-Hop can just as easily be used in more thought-provoking scenes, too.
Check out the best Trip-Hop albums of all-time to get a feel for the music.
What we are saying is that Trip-Hop is a genre where you have almost free-range to use it as you like.
One common use is after a scene of conflict when the hero is walking off into the unknown.
Trip-Hop is the perfect blend of emotion, calm, and cool for that scenario.
If you feel like Trip-Hop connects to your scene, your character, or your audience, then use it, but not before you test it out with our video preview tool.