ARTICLE ARCHIVES

APRIL 2007

ISSUE 151

TRIP HOP The story Words: Chris Sharp

'TripHop': as an example of journalistic shorthand, it feels like a casual pun, a throwaway spurt of second-rate insight. But however approximately, this dumb little phrase has somehow managed to define a genre, and as soon as that happens an inevitable slew of misbegotten chancers is just a stack of major-label cash away. That the perpetrator deserves to be burned alive on a pyre of Ingrid Schroeder records is beyond doubt, as is the fact that one of the effects of the term was to drive a wedge between DJ Shadow's then-revolutionary brand of instrumental HipHop and the street culture that effectively gave birth to it.
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Von Südenfed

Mark E Smith and Mouse On Mars's new project is not so much a collaboration as a shotgun wedding marrying digital mayhem with cantankerous interventions. By David Stubbs read more

Primer: Dubstep

Derek Walmsley provides a user's guide to the sub-bass pressure of the UK's latest dancefloor mutation, with Burial, Kode9, Skream, Loefah, Digital Mystikz, DJ Hatcha and more read more

MARCH 2007

ISSUE 151

SOMETHING FOR NOTHING

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THIS, THAT, & MORE

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THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A TITLE

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FEBruary 2007

ISSUE 151

Something More

'TripHop': as an example of journalistic shorthand, it feels like a casual pun, a throwaway spurt of second-rate insight. But however approximately, this dumb little phrase has somehow managed to define a genre, and as soon as that happens an inevitable slew of misbegotten chancers is just a stack of major-label cash away. That the perpetrator deserves to be burned alive on a pyre of Ingrid Schroeder records is beyond doubt, as is the fact that one of the effects of the term was to drive a wedge between DJ Shadow's then-revolutionary brand of instrumental HipHop and the street culture that effectively gave birth to it.
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ELECTRO IN YOUR FACE

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UMDIDDIDUM

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JANUARY 2007

ISSUE 151

THESE TITLES KEEP GOING AND GOING!

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THATS IT I QUIT!

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FOR REAL THIS TIME

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