What is trip-hop?

Trip-hop is the slow end of what Proper plays. It came out of Bristol in the late ’80s and early ’90s: downtempo, atmospheric, hip-hop beats slowed to a crawl and soaked in dub and electronica. Think Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, the sound of that city.

The tempo sits well below drum & bass, around 80 to 130 BPM. The name was coined by Andy Pemberton in Mixmag in June 1994, in a feature that pointed to DJ Shadow’s “In/Flux” as the record defining the sound. Many of the artists tagged with it never liked the label. It’s the mood music in the drum & bass family, and Proper keeps it in the range.