Trip rock

Trip rock
Stylistic origins	Trip hop Experimental rock Alternative rock Psychedelic rock
Cultural origins	Late 1990s Bristol, United Kingdom
Typical instruments	Electric guitar – Bass – Drums - Turntables - Keyboard - Rhodes - Sampler
Mainstream popularity	Some bands were commercially successful
Regional scenes
Bristol
Other topics
Bristol underground scene - Industrial hip-hop - Breakbeat - Nu jazz

Trip rock is a term used to describe a type of music characterized by a fusion of trip hop and rock genres, principally alternative rock. It may also have connections with new forms of psychedelic rock or progressive music, or even post-rock. Rock/pop bands like Gorillaz often mixed various styles of pop, rock, hip hop and electronics, while other bands are trip hop bands that incorporate elements like guitar chords and a more rock-oriented songwriting.

"Trip rock" was also used by Dutch band The Gathering for describing their music since 1999, but as a "trippy" music with strong emotionality and melancholic mood, rather than rock influenced by trip hop.

History

With their album Blue Lines, Massive Attack are credited with creating the sub-genre trip hop or Bristol Sound which features a more meditational sound than hip-hop which they are associated with. A later album Mezzanine features "eerie atmospherics, fuzz-tone guitars, and a wealth of effects" on many tracks. They called their new approach to their rock music trip rock. Other trip hop bands, like Portishead, often used principally typical rock instruments to recreate their sounds.

Trip rock has also been used to describe groups like Unkle who are a collaboration of musicians featuring trip-hop DJ's including James Lavelle and also a leader in the development of U.S. trip-hop DJ Shadow and rock musicians from various genres. Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack also featured in the later works by the collaboration.

Notable artists

• The Gathering
• UNKLE
• DJ Shadow
• Portishead
• Gorillaz
• Collide
• manBREAK
• Space monkeys
• Archive
• Beast
• Anomie Belle
• Peeping Tom
• Araless
• Madshroom MC
• Tricky
• Colin Zeal
• Sneaker Pimps
• Paatos
• Massive Attack

See also

• Trip hop
• Ambient music
• Alternative rock
• Neo-prog or New Prog
• Post rock
• Acid jazz
• Psychedelic rock