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trip-hop

trip-hop is the alternative form of trip hop.

Meaning of trip hop

Noun

trip hop (uncountable)

  1. A genre of slow electronica combining elements of hip hop with melodic, often psychedelic, sounds and impressionistic lyrics.
    • Trip-hop, on the other hand, takes the opposite approach. The genre can be described as a slower and dub-influenced reworking of African American hip-hop, aptly described by writer Phil Johnson as “dubbed-up hip-hop derived music...beats whose customary urgency is deconstructed into dreamy, erotic...2013, Michael Veal, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 235

Questions about trip-hop

What is trip-hop the alternative form of?
Trip-hop is the alternative form of trip hop.

Words near trip-hop in the dictionary

  1. trip wires
  2. trip working
  3. trip workings
  4. trip-hammer
  5. trip-hammers
  6. trip-hop
  7. trip-sit
  8. trip-sitter
  9. trip-sitting
  10. trip-switch
  11. trip-switches

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