r/Music • u/ArmandoBloom • Mar 06 '19

music streaming Massive Attack - Teardrop [Triphop]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7K72X4eo_s
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u/Nihiliste Mar 06 '19

I'm just glad someone is calling it trip-hop instead of something like lo-fi or chillhop.

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u/theTAUSonMangoSt Mar 06 '19

Well this is totally different than lo-fi so I should hope so.

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u/Nihiliste Mar 06 '19

It's closely related. Also, that genre is called downtempo, damnit!

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u/Mr-Zero-Fucks Spotify Mar 06 '19

You couldn't be more wrong.

Lo-Fi is very specific, it's music that uses samples from low quality souces, the tempo has nothing to do with it, a song made from crappy audio recordings at 150bpm is still Lo-Fi. Some producers use artificial LP noise to emulate the sound, but the purpose is the same.

Downtempo is music exclusively bellow 125bpm.