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The Lockdown Playlist
IN THIS PHOTO: Tricky and Martina Topley-Bird in 1994 (the 1995 debut album from Tricky, Maxinquaye, is seen as a classic Trip-Hop record)/PHOTO CREDIT: Steve Double/Retna UK
Great Trip-Hop Cuts
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BECAUSE Massive Attack’s Blue Lines…
turned thirty on 8th April, I wanted to make this Lockdown Playlist a collection of Trip-Hop cuts. That album, to many, is a Trip-Hop classic. Whether you see the album as Trip-Hop or British Hip-Hop, it is a sound and scene that produced some incredible albums. I think that Blue Lines still sound amazing after three decades – even if people at the time wondered whether that sound would endure and be remembered down the line. The early-1990s was a great time for genres like Trip-Hop, Dance and Electronica. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of Blue Lines and bring in some other terrific Trip-Hop gems, this Lockdown Playlist combines some amazing…
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TRACKS from that incredible world.