Acoustic Lounge Jazz Trip Hop by the Acoustic Lounge Freaks.  Horizontal Label, London, 2019.

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At This Time Of Day

FM Nine

A Trip Hop Jazz album from the Acoustic Lounge Freaks.  Released in 2019 on the Horizontal Label, London

Contemplating Jazz

Waves

Belong

Friends

A River

What A Life

A Trip Hop Jazz EP by the Acoustic Lounge Freaks.  Released in 2018 on the Horizontal Label, London

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Mantra

The post Trip Hop Horizontal Label and the Acoustic Lounge Freaks are founded by guitarist and producer Nicholas Chamberlain-Hunt, and co-led by Christine Ann Leach.  

Nicholas Chamberlain Hunt played bass with cult electronic band Neu Electrikk on the Some Bizarre label with fellow artists Soft Cell, The The and Depeche Mode.  He worked as a studio sound engineer, a resident live engineer at the 101 Club and the Mean Fiddler. He toured America and Europe in Baby Fox as their dubman and front of house engineer.  In 1999 Nicholas started the " Horizontal" label creating the Horizontal Label sound and catalogue.
Singer Christine Ann Leach started her recording career as vocalist for jazz nubiles Spring at the age of 15 with Niall MacColl. She collaborated  with producer William Orbit on his label, [Guerrilla Records] primarily on the “Strange Cargo” series of ambient albums. Her own band Baby Fox (Dwight Clarke and Alex Gray, Road Runner Records) made a name for  themselves with two singles of the week in the NME and a couple highly rated Trip Hop albums. Christine co-wrote “Ray of Light” and performed the song with William Orbit at the Astoria and Phoenix Festival before Madonna used it on her “Ray of Light” album.

What is Trip Hop (post Trip Hop)?
  Originated in the 1990s in the uk.   The term first appeared in the press in June 1994 by Andy Pemberton writing at the time for the magazine “Mixmag”.  It is a fusion of Hip Hop and Electronica incorporating a number of styles,  it can be highly experimental, dubby, jazzy, spoken word, bizarre noises, slow beats that give the listener the impression  they are on a musical trip.  Often featuring melancholic vocals, more often female than male with old school scratching, slow heavy drum sounds, swathes of ambient sounds and manipulated samples.  
As a 30 year old experimental genre it’s tentacles have now stretched across a vast swathe of the world’s musical landscape but remaining at it’s heart pumps recognisable elements of hip hop, down tempo  beats,  scratching, ambience.  

Most notable Trip Hop (or post trip hop) bands include Massive Attack, Portishead, Baby Fox, Morcheeba, Lamb, Sneaker Pimps to name a few.

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