Dizzy Winter (2007)
17 videos • 61 views • by Villeroy from Trip Hop X One of the earliest compilations I had put on TPB back in the day. I wrote then the following words as a description (I do not understand everything anymore, so relax): ”I want to express my feelings of melancholy, dizziness, sadness, a sort of euforia, feelings that have been lurking throughtout my brain lately. It's winter, it's snow outside, it's warm inside and Christmas is just around the corner, but I don't feel like I belong to this story-like scenery. I've been trying to look for more than two minutes at the lights from the Christmas tree without feeling bored or irritated - but I've failed miserably. These days I've been trying to find some inspiration - although there were few moments in the past few weeks when I could make stories about how abysal fish are playing golf with the ghost of the writer I've "stoled" my surname from (I'm talking about my pseudonym...), now I can't say one single thing about the can of spray in front of me that doesn't sound rubbish... I want to express those feelings. But I don't have a guitar, I don't have any instrument in fact, and even if I had, it would really suck if I hadn't played them before. For several months I've been planning to do some mixes after I acculumate more knowledge about trip-hop and the wonderful artists and bands within it because, hey, what use does my wisdom have if I don't share it with others? Besides that, I've seen many people who don't have the time or the patience (or both) to look deep outside Massive Attack and Portishead. I feel pity for them because there are lots of superb trip-hop music besides the aforementioned bands that everyone knows about - and there's enough for everyone. From more accesible bands that could have easily penetrated the mainstream like Sutrastore, Ming or Krom to more sophisticated, profound artists like Antenne or Rippleheart. Therefor, I decided to do mixes... Actually, the idea of this playlist came out of nowhere. I was listening a bit bored to my MP3 player this morning when I suddenly had the idea of how a playlist for a mix could look like... In a few minutes, I've managed to dig from my mind enough familiar songs and put them in my playlist in a satisfying order. Overall, the process didn't last too long - after a few minutes, I already had 16 songs. After lunch, I've done some changes after which the playlist has come to its final form - 17 songs that can somehow express those feelings - a lot better than I could have. Some might complain about the fact that I put so many Antenne songs or the fact that I put few songs that could be tagged as "ambient" or "jazz" rather than "trip-hop" or the fact that I haven't put too many artists that are still unknown even by experienced trip-hoppers - the truth is that trip-hop was never pure (after all, it's all influenced by several genres), plus, I wanted the songs to fit in the concept really well. From the dizziness of the first few songs, throughout the occasional moments of revelation on Michi, Krom and Leaf, to the tired atmosphere of the last few songs, the feelings change, but the order comes in naturally, which is the thing I want the most from my playlists. There is a song from a jazz band (Food), there are several songs that are (heavily) influenced by IDM and/or ambient (especially the last song), there are several interludes that otherwise would have been left unnoticed, but overall I wanted the songs to be jigsaws that fit well in the puzzle - because this mix is a puzzle. I hope you'll enjoy the results of my work because, more than anything, I wanted my mix to be not just a compilation where the songs are thrown in just for the sake of making a compilation. For the next mixes, I will include more tunes from bands that wait to be discovered, but for now, I've wanted to do a decent selection of songs that could fit in the bill. There will be more mixes and, hopefully, more people will hear about these gorgeous artists that end up in obscurity because trip-hop isn't commercial and because there aren't many people who listen to this kind of stuff and there are even fewer people who don't limit themselves to MA and Portishead.”