The Pearls of Trip-Hop Top 100

Submitted by SNegrea on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 11:48
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  1. 21 Hertz - Ocean of Time (2005)
  2. 8mm - Opener EP (2004)
  3. Abricot - A Drop of Yellow Demo (2005)
  4. Aloan - Palmyr (2002)
  5. Amstrong - Sprinkler (1999)
  6. Amstrong - Hot Water Music (2001)
  7. Antennasia - Cinemice (2005)
  8. Antenne - #1 (2000)
  9. Antenne - #2 (2002)
  10. Antenne - #3 (2008)
  11. Anti Atlas - Future Nostalgia (2003)
  12. Artefact - Precious Things (2001)
  13. Astaire - Don't Whisper Lies EP (2004)
  14. Bergman - Inner (2000)
  15. Bergman - Lust (2004)
  16. Björk - Vespertine (2001)
  17. Blue Foundation - Blue Foundation (2001)
  18. Bowery Electric - Beat (1996)
  19. Bowery Electric - Lushlife (2000)
  20. Bows - Blush (1999)
  21. Canidas - Golden (2001)
  22. Coldfinger - Lefthand (2000)
  23. Crustation - Bloom (1997)
  24. Cuba - Leap of Faith (1999)
  25. DJ Krush - Kakusei (1998)
  26. Dreamfield - Take Me With You (2001)
  27. Earthling - Radar (1995)
  28. Earthling - Humandust (2004)
  29. Echostar - Sola (2003)
  30. Elsiane - Hybrid (2007)
  31. Funki Porcini - Fast Asleep (2002)
  32. Genesis P-Orridge & Astrid Monroe - When I Was Young (2004)
  33. Glideascope - With Strings Attached EP (2003)
  34. The Grassy Knoll - III (1998)
  35. Halou - We Only Love You (1998)
  36. Halou - Wiser (2001)
  37. Harland - Phoelar (2001)
  38. Heed - Postdynamic Tide (1999)
  39. Heed - Breakeven 2200 (2000)
  40. Hooverphonic - A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular (1996)
  41. Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998)
  42. Hooverphonic - The Magnificent Tree (2000)
  43. Jute - A Violent Narcotic (2002)
  44. Karmacoda - Reco mended (2001)
  45. Karmacoda - Evidence (2003)
  46. Krom - This (2000)
  47. Leaf - Made Into Itself (2005)
  48. Lo-Fi - Nano (2003)
  49. Lost Balance - Air Control (2001)
  50. Lost Balance - Alone in Multitudes (2004)
  51. Lotus - Float (2002)
  52. Low in the Sky - Dear Birds (2005)
  53. Mandalay - Empathy (1998)
  54. Mandalay - Instinct (2000)
  55. Market - Market (2008)
  56. Mensch - Goddess EP (2003)
  57. Mensch - Miqano EP (2003)
  58. Microbunny - Microbunny (2002)
  59. Microbunny - Dead Stars (2004)
  60. Ming - Red (2001)
  61. Mono - Formica Blues (1997)
  62. My Scarlet Life - Buzzbomb (1998)
  63. My Scarlet Life - InfraRed (1999)
  64. Passion Flower - Shine in Your Own Light (2000)
  65. Pelican City - Rhode Island (2000)
  66. Perfume Tree - Dust (1992)
  67. Perfume Tree - The Sun's Running Out (1994)
  68. Perfume Tree - A Lifetime Away (1995)
  69. Pomegranate - This Illusion Sound (2000)
  70. Pomegranate - On Black Peak (2003)
  71. Puracane - Things You Should Leave Alone (2000)
  72. R/R Coseboom - Beneath Trembling Lanterns (2006)
  73. Saltillo - Ganglion (2006)
  74. Sankt Otten - Eine Kleine Traurigkeit (2000)
  75. Sankt Otten - Wir koennen ja Freunde bleiben (2006)
  76. Scarlet Life - Sugar, Spice, Saccharin & Cyanide (2001)
  77. Sestatee - Bohomasys EP (2005)
  78. Slim - 0097 (1997)
  79. Smoke City - Flying Away (1997)
  80. Somnambul - Somnambul (2002)
  81. Spherical - Bloominous (2003)
  82. The Starseeds - Parallel Life (1997)
  83. The Starseeds - There Is Enough for Everyone (2000)
  84. Stervhïa - Non Muntër (2007)
  85. Sunday Munich - Pneuma (1998)
  86. Sunday Munich - Vinculum (2000)
  87. Sutrastore - Love Evolution 1.0 EP (2005)
  88. Sutrastore - Open Doorway Demo (2008)
  89. Swandive - Intuition (1997)
  90. Swandive - Anyone on the Air? (2000)
  91. Teresa 11 - Smoky Heaven (2004)
  92. Thorn Apple - Crystalline (2001)
  93. Tokyo Shapiro - Plause EP (2004)
  94. U-topia - U-topia (1999)
  95. Úztari - Mañana Gris (2003)
  96. Vacabou - Twelve Songs Inside (2007)
  97. VA - Broken Nightlights (2006)
  98. VA - She: A Female Trip-Hop Experience (2001)
  99. Velure - Care for Fading Embers (2005)
  100. Watch the Men Fall - L'Éternité et un jour (2007)
Author Comments: 

This is a reply to "The Official Trip Hop Classics Top 100" list, but in terms of albums and EPs/(maxi)singles, not just songs (plus, I haven't picked the obvious picks: Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky... although I still picked Hooverphonic. And there are also 2 excellent trip-hop compilations). I have a different definition of trip-hop, dealing more with a mixture between (mostly) female vocals, a certain style of drumming that suggests more or less heaviness and atmospheric samples, than with those minces that are considered by some trip-hop, but which could might as well fit into downtempo/big beat/acid jazz/nu-jazz/instrumental hip-hop and so on. See websites like Tripofagia, done by trip-hop enthusiasts... Truth to be told, some of the following artists aren't pure (well, I guess pure trip-hop exists only in our minds), for instance, Amstrong's "Sprinkler" has an obvious industrial influence, but that influence manages to enhance the specific percussion, albums with a slight dream pop/shoegaze feel have improved atmospherics, and so on...