Hooverphonic - The President of the LSD Golf Club

Hooverphonic are a Belgian rock/pop group, formed in 1995. Though early on categorized as a trip hop group, they quickly expanded their sound to the point where they could no longer be described as a lone genre, but rather encompass alternative, electronica, electropop, rock, and mixture of others.

The President of the LSD Golf Club is the sixth studio album album of this band. The album has quite a different feel from previous Hooverphonic albums. The album was recorded with live musicians and made use of the mellotron, an electronic keyboard popularised by The Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever. The sound of the album harks back to the psychedelic era of music but clearly retains a sense of modernity. Songs such as Expedition Impossible are also have more of a traditional rock sound, compared to the sound of earlier Hooverphonic work.

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Hooverphonic - Expedition Impossible

Massive Attack - Heligoland

The pioneering force behind the rise of trip-hop, Massive Attack were among the most innovative and influential groups of their generation; their hypnotic sound — a darkly sensual and cinematic fusion of hip-hop rhythms, soulful melodies, dub grooves, and choice samples — set the pace for much of the dance music to emerge throughout the 1990s, paving the way for such acclaimed artists as Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Morcheeba, UNKLE and Tricky, himself a Massive Attack alumnus.

Heligoland is the fifth regular studio album, entitled after the German archipelago of the same name. It had been officially released in February 2010 – seven years after the release of their previous non-soundtrack, standalone studio album, 100th Window.

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Massive Attack - Psyche

Airlock - Drystar

Airlock is a Belgium based Trip-hop musical group formed November 1997 notable for their ambient music on several popular TV series. The band members were Renaud Charlier, Ernst W. Meinrath and Pierre Mussche.

In 1998, Musicom, began crafting tracks of cool electronic ambience mixed with orchestral hip-hop, as soundtracks for adverts and underground films. Scottish born Esra Tasasiz joined Musicom and the four decided to work together on recording a short piece of music. It was during these sessions that it soon became obvious that their creative output worked outside the confines of cinematography and Airlock were formed. 

The production of the first album ‘Drystar’ stretched over a period of two-and-a-half-years. 

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Airlock - Alpha 

The Chemical Brothers - Further

Further is the seventh studio album by The Chemical Brothers, released on 14 June 2010. The album title and release date were announced on band's official website on 30 March 2010. All 8 tracks from the album are accompanied by corresponding films, made specifically to match them, by Adam Smith and Marcus Lyal.

"Further" is the first Chemical Brothers album to not feature any vocal collaborations. Tom Rowlands sings on the tracks that do feature vocals. Stephanie Dosen also provided vocals for certain tracks

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The chemical Brothers - K+D+B 

8mm - Opener

8mm is a trip-hop flavored pop-rock band from Los Angeles, California, United States. It consists of the married couple Juliette & Sean Beavan, and Jon Nicholson.

Opener is the debut album of 8mm, this second album was songs to Love and Die by... released in 2006, for download click here

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8mm - Save yourself by Jazz8311

Sneaker Pimps - Splinter

Splinter is the second full studio album from Sneaker Pimps. Released in 1999, Splinter is the first release from the band without Kelli Dayton singing lead vocals; she was replaced by founding band member Chris Corner.

The sound of the album was a great change from their first album. Most notably it was a darker sound which favored acoustic guitars and dark lyrics.

Many fans consider the album to widely underrated with poor sales and very little media or critical attention.

The cover of the album features the back of Chris' head. He had previously not felt up to the responsibility of being a 'front man' but has since gone on to embrace this through IAMX.

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Waldeck - Ballroom Stories

Sometimes described as trip-hop Waldeck's songs have a very calm and laidback theme. They often consist of mellow vocals sung either by Joy Malcolm or Brian Amos (although sometimes they consist of only Waldeck's instrumentals). While some people have mixed feelings towards the male-female vocal fluctuations, others feel that they offer versatility in the sound while still maintaining the unique style of his music.

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Róisín Murphy - Live London Sessions

 

Róisín Murphy is originally from Arklow, Ireland gained fame with Mark Brydon as the lead vocalist for UK electronic duo Moloko.

After three additional albums and a remix project with Brydon, Murphy recorded her first official solo material in 2004, who had previously done remixes for Moloko. She released her debut album, Ruby Blue, in June 2005 in the UK on Echo Records. “Ruby Blue” produced two singles “If We’re In Love” and “Sow Into You”

This album is a live session recorded by Itunes in London on 2008, that's a great live session with 4 acoustic songs.   

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8mm - Songs to Love and Die by...

 
8mm is a trip-hop influenced pop-rock band from Los Angeles. 8mm was started by Sean Beavan and his wife Juliette Beavan. The band currently consists of Sean Beavan, Juliette Beavan, and Jon Nicholson, Juliette being the frontwoman.

8mm has toured internationally in countries such as the United Kingdom and Chile, as well as across the US and in parts of Canada. They released two albums. Their debut, appropriately titled Opener, their second Songs to Love and Die By.

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Portishead - Discography

La banda fue formada en 1991 por el teclista Geoff Barrow y la cantante Beth Gibbons que tomaron el nombre de la localidad natal de Barrow, situada a 15 km al oeste de Bristol.

la discográfica Go! Beat que editó su primer álbum Dummy en 1994, con la colaboración del guitarrista Adrian Utley. A pesar de la nula campaña de publicidad de la banda, el álbum fue un éxito en Estados Unidos y Europa, los sencillos "Glory Box" y "Sour Times" alcanzaron la cabeza de las listas de éxitos.

Su segundo álbum Portishead, salió a la venta en 1997 e incluyó el sencillo "All Mine". Además, grabaron un concierto con acompañamiento de orquesta en Roseland, Nueva York, donde fueron interpretadas sus canciones más famosas. Éste, salió a la venta en 1998 con un DVD del concierto.

El 24 de enero de 2008 Portishead anunció la salida de un nuevo disco, titulado Third, programado para el 14 de abril del mismo año.

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Propellerheads - Decks and Drums and Rock and Roll

Alex Gifford y Will White forman "Propellerheads", nombre que significa en la jerga californiana, "nerds informáticos". El grupo de Bath (Inglaterra) se dio a conocer en 1997 gracias a la utilización de su canción "Dive!" en un anuncio por parte de Adidas. Posteriormente, lanzaron al mercado en 1998 su disco Decksandrumsandrockandroll, con canciones tan conocidas como "History Repeating", "Take California", "On her Majesty´s Secret Service" o "Spybreak" (canción que aparece en la película Matrix) .

Su música electrónica entra en el ámbito del "Big Beat", estilo que iniciaron grupos como The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim...

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Archive - Controlling Crowds

Released: 27 Mar 2009 

13 tracks (65:56)

Controlling Crowds is the 8th studio album released by Archive, being released in Europe on March 29th 2009. The album was played in its entirety through Myspace. Rosko John, who did the rap vocals on the first album Londinuim, appears on tracks Quiet Time, Bastardised Ink and Razed To The Ground, and Graham Preskett, who already worked with Archive on the Michel vaillant soundtrack, collaborates once again with Archive in Controlling Crowds. 

The main theme of the album is the human obsession of domination, and control, hence the name “Controlling Crowds”. 

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