Trip-Hop is a type of British/European dance music. Its name comes from 'Trip＋Hip Hop'='Trip-Hop'. Because it originated from Bristol, England, it was first called 'Bristol Hip-Hop'. Because of the Hip-Hop (in fact, a lot of music is based on Hip-Hop... I don’t know what Hip-Hop is. If you look at hip-hop dancers, most of them use Hip-Hop music to dance) and rhythm. Slow it down (sometimes very slowly), add some psychedelic flavor, such as a very gloomy, fat Bass, slight but psychedelic synthetic sound effects, or some samples of records. Sometimes even the noise of the record may be "deliberately "Take a sample. The so-called 'Trip' refers to the psychedelic, dense drug "trip". Therefore, Trip-Hop is a slow psychedelic, jazz-like, hazy break beat with a bit of Hip Hop rhythm. music. Although it belongs to the dance music category, its psychedelic and confusing characteristics have made it far away from the clear rhythm characteristics of ordinary dance music.

Representative figures of foreign Trip-Hop:

Ortishead, Tricky, Massive Attack, the recognized iron triangle in Trip-Hop.

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New Age Music Style

I have divided the styles and genres of New Age music into one category: one is the direct category (such as Contemporary Instrumental, etc.), and the other is the side branch. Category (such as Adult Alternative, etc., please note that the relationship between the side branches here and New Age Music may be included or included), and the third category is known to everyone on earth (such as Natural, Healing, etc.). I will say more about the first two categories. I will just click on what you already know. There is nothing more to say.

(1) Direct category

Contemporary Instrumental

Contemporary Instrumental music contains the aesthetics of Progressive Electronic music in New Age music. But it comes more from a wide range of emotions and fashions. Radical electronic music emphasizes luxurious, delicate and grand compositions, while Contemporary Instrumental is much freer, so that its compositions are concise and quiet, and obvious personal solos are also added to enhance its melodic audibility. When Contemporary Instrumental wants to create a soft and comfortable atmosphere, musicians will use a large number of acoustic instruments. The recordings of pianist George Winston in the early 1980s established the direction of this music's development.

Not all such music artists believe in New Age philosophy, even though their music is often inspired by similar emotions; moreover, Contemporary Instrumental can range from pop, rock, jazz, folk, classical and Drawing elements from world music and other music. After the 1980s and 1990s, this music further intersected with other music types, making some musicians not limited to Contemporary Instrumental.

Neo-Classical

This kind of music has two points: first, it is influenced by classical music; second, it does not use the usual classical music interpretation method. Many contemporary instrumentalists were born playing classical music, but these people do not agree with the rules and regulations in classical music. Instead, they break these constraints and find new ways. Some directly use the works of their predecessors and reinterpret them according to their own ideas. , this is neoclassical. In addition to the influence from classical music, neoclassical music also has many elements taken from Baroque, Romanticism and Impressionism.

Ethnic Fusion

Do not confuse Ethnic Fusion here with World Fusion (the fusion of jazz music and world music) and Worldbeat (world music with elements of Western pop music) . Ethnic Fusion is generally based on the sound and philosophy of New Age music. It integrates traditional ethnic music into contemporary electronic music in order to find a harmony and balance between the Western emphasis on technology and the culture of nature and nation.

Jazz musicians Tony Scott and Don Cherry may have been the first to synthesize world music into a Western musical genre; Jon Hassell's famous music broadened the scope of these Ethnic Fusion experiments and thus gave rise to the genre in the 1970s , and later collaborated with Ambient pioneer Brian Eno in the early 1980s. Gradually, this musical genre has become a way for many contemporary adventurous instrumentalists to broaden their musical horizons by borrowing fresh rhythms and non-Western instruments, while others are exploring unique ethnic music. Add elements of contemporary instrumental music or new age music. Artists of the latter include Clannad (Celtic folk music), Ottmar Liebert (flamenco), Kitaro (Japanese traditional music) and R. Carlos Nakai (native American flute music). In the early 1990s, Enigma, Dead Can Dance and Deep Forest introduced club dance rhythms and mixing techniques to this music, whose applications ranged from European medieval music to sampled African indigenous music. But even so, this music is rarely likely to have a bigger market breakthrough.

Meditation

Meditation (can be regarded as an advanced way of napping). Today, when New Age is popular, meditation has become an important way of practice for New Agers, and music to match this method has also been produced. There is a lot of music in New Age music that is specially made for meditation activities (sometimes it is not suitable to be listened to as music). This kind of music generally has no obvious rhythm, and the music is smooth and smooth, allowing the listener to relax physically and mentally. Sometimes musicians will also use some natural sound effects to enhance the rendering of the artistic conception.

Solo Instrumental

This kind of music is usually created by musicians inspired by folk music, and its interpretation is usually pure instruments, such as piano, guitar, Celtic harp Pure musical instruments, and even cast dulcimers. This music directly contributed to the successful new age music labels such as Windham Hill and Narada, which in turn steered this music in an impressionistic direction in their development. Many works in this music are quite innovative and very touching. It was only later that some second-rate music opportunists got in, resulting in this music becoming known as "auditory wallpaper". Of course, some outstanding music artists are still showing people the true nature of this music. .

Techno-Tribal

Techno-Tribal is a unique variant of Ethnic Fusion. This is especially seen in the works of some radical electronic acoustic musicians, who creatively integrate the most primitive musical expressions of mankind with today's technological means (especially electronic music technology). Specifically, they combine African, Australian, and North-South music. The tribal music rhythms of the Americas are reimagined with masterful electronic music. Creating this kind of music requires a high degree of skill and musical perception, and if the musician can successfully combine the two, the result will be a very good work, and conversely, it will be the basis for this music. A parody of those cultures that existed in the past.

(2) Alternative type

Adult Alternative

This style covers a wider range. It is used when people do not want to listen to ordinary pop music but do not want to listen to it. Produced in a context that deviates from the mainstream. This style of music is mostly influenced by Pop, Rock and Jazz Fusion. Most of the time, it is mainly instrumental music. Good musicians can create beautiful melodies, colorful instrument sounds and energetic rhythms, deviating from the mainstream. Without breaking away from the mainstream, of course, there are some works that are just cliche pop music.

Note: Adult Alternative is a broad term and does not only refer to New Age Music

Ambient

No need to say more about this! Everyone must know it.

Chamber Jazz

The external manifestation of this kind of music is in the form of a small performance group based on acoustic instrumental music. There are two important factors in this kind of music: first, improvisation The creation is more inclined to the jazz style at this time; the second is the ethnic music (Ethnic) element, so it also absorbs traditional music from cultures around the world. The creation of this kind of music tends towards neoclassical musical aesthetics and is influenced by Impressionism.

Electro-Acoustic

This style of music often represents the development of music technology itself, but unlike general sampling and the use of synthesizers to reproduce the original sound, this music The composer's aim is to mutate the original sound, sometimes even reaching an imperceptible state. True artists of this type never use preset sounds on modern synthesizers, but instead create their own unique sounds.

In the avant-garde realm of this type of music, the electronic component plays a more important role in the overall concept of the work, while acoustic instruments are also used to add a new listening perspective to the author's technique. Finally, this kind of music has two sides: good works can give you a new world of listening, thinking and perception, while bad works will indulge in technology and ignore the emotional expression of music.

(3) Everyone on earth knows

Healing

Just take it literally. This kind of New Age music allows the listener to listen to the music while listening to it. Achieving a therapy-like effect, the structure and sounds of this music are largely taken from Contemporary Instrumental.

Nature

No need to say more! Incorporating natural sounds into Contemporary Instrumental music brings art and nature together.

Self-Help

This kind of music is also based on Contemporary Instrumental, and may be Contemporary Instrumental at the same time. Self-Help highlights the purpose of this music-to allow the listener to Listen to soft music to relax.

Relaxation

Understanding is the same as Self-Help

Spiritual

Understanding is the same as Healing

That’s all I know