Listening Guide: Trip-Hop
Andy Thomas
May 1, 2025
Explore trip-hop from its early days to the current renaissance centering on a new generation of artists mining the genre’s laidback beats.
Andy Thomas
Andy Thomas is a music, culture and lifestyle writer and researcher based in London. His work appears in Wax Poetics, Straight No Chaser, Bandcamp Daily, RBMA, Jocks & Nerds, and many other outlets.
Listening Guide: Early Broken Beat
Andy Thomas
January 3, 2025
Broken beat was created by a community of producers with roots in London’s various club scenes. Here are some of the genre’s foundational records.