Mixmag -> Trip Hop: "This feature first appeared in Mixmag June 1994"

TRIP HOP

It's insane, scary, trippy, very dope and the most exciting thing to happen to hip hop for years. Dr Dre on magic mushrooms? Sven Vath doing jeep beats? You're getting there.
Andy Pemberton digs the new breed.

'IT'S so fucking excellent at the moment, ' enthuses Mark, that guru of all things techno from Happy Daze Records on the Isle Of Wight. 'That stuff is just wicked. La Funk Mob, RPM, it's excellent.'
He's not talking about the latest 'Technoid Implosions Volume 12' LP, or the new 'Die Pantaloons Trancenfurher' 10 inch cyberdisc. He's talking about a new kind of hip hop record.
It would be unheard of for technoboffs to enthuse about hip hop just six months ago. The beats were far too slow, and the rhymes just got in the way for dancefloor fun or bedroom appreciation. Hip hop was out there on its own, a whole culture and musical genre best left to low riding Americans obsessed with guns and girls with big bottoms. But now all that is changing. London's bastion of techno Fat Cat Records is selling these new hip hop records like hot cross buns, sussed trance and techno-heads like Mark Daze and Andy Weatherall are sitting up and paying attention, and house producers like Slo Moshun, whose 'Bells Of New York' slowed right down to a hip hop break, are realising there's more to life than four to the floor beat fascism.

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