This month marked the thirtieth anniversary of Massive Attack’s “Unfinished Sympathy,” not that anyone was keeping track. The song remains, for me at least, the high-water mark of what came to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trip-hop might have been a term invented by a journalist, but it ended up being a handy umbrella for a lot of artists to thrive ...

‘People said: “Nobody’s going to listen to instrumental trip-hop.” But I was thinking of huge soundscapes, like the ones by Pink Floyd or Beethoven’ By 1991, sampling had entered a golden era with De ...