0 a type of popular dance music that has a slow beat, and is intended to create a relaxed mood. It is a mixture of hip-hop and reggae.
Several former members of shoegazing bands later moved towards post-rock and the more electronica-based trip hop.
They are often touted as a precursor to acid jazz, ambient and trip hop having performed similar sounding music before those genres emerged.
Musical genres used by the band include drum and bass, deep house, trip hop, and breakbeat.
Their personal style contains elements of many other genres such as bossa nova, rock, lounge, trip-hop.
The band's sound is a blend of several musical genres, including rock, surf, reggae, dub and trip hop.
Trip hop is also known for its melancholy.
Instead of gangsta rap with its hard-hitting lyrics, trip hop offers a more aural atmospherics with instrumental hip hop, turntable scratching, and breakbeat rhythms.
However, some criticism has been aimed at the repetitive nature of the band and the trip hop genre in general.
