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Monday Music: Trip-hop, a genre that transcends decades

By: Nejdana Houshyar, Staff Writer Trip-hop is a musical genre that blends hip-hop with electronica, often taking influences from jazz, techno, and blues. The vocals are soft and sensual while the ambience is moody, funky, and feels like a gritty, sexy 1990s film. Trip-hop fuses with a plethora of other genres, such as dream-pop, shoegaze, and alternative, making it a highly abstract genre. The 1990s are marked as the pinnacle of trip-hop, with popular band Massive Attack being considered the “genesis point of the trip-hop movement,” according to Insomniac. The genre slowly trickled out of the mainstream once the world…

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