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Trip hop is a music genre that refers to a musical trend that began in the mid 1990s of downtempo electronic music and grew out of England's hip hop and house scenes, including the Bristol underground scene. It has been described as Europe's alternative of choice in the second half of the '90s , and a one up fusion of Hip Hop and Electronica until neither genre is recognizable. It is thus categorized as a fairly experimental genre, and sometimes with elements of Dance music. The style is

Chris Hintzen is a music producer and artist, who has been based out of Toronto and Brampton, Canada. Hintzen releases music under various monkiers, most notably Crunk Chris, CRUNK23 (with Noah23), D.Engine Ear and Heatbag. Chris Hintzen was born in Toronto, Canada and grew up in various parts of Toronto, Brampton, Freeport (Bahamas), Miami (Florida) and Vancouver (BC). His father is Guyanese and his mother is Ukrainian/Polish descent. At an early age his parents encouraged him to play piano,

Chris Hintzen is a music producer and artist, who has been based out of Toronto and Brampton, Canada. Hintzen releases music under various monkiers, most notably Crunk Chris, CRUNK23 (with Noah23), D.Engine Ear and Heatbag. Chris Hintzen was born in Toronto, Canada and grew up in various parts of Toronto, Brampton, Freeport (Bahamas), Miami (Florida) and Vancouver (BC). His father is Guyanese and his mother is Ukrainian/Polish descent. At an early age his parents encouraged him to play piano,

Jazz is a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music. Its West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note. However, Art Blakey has been quoted as saying, No

The X Ecutioners is a group of hip hop DJs / turntablists from New York. Formed as a DJ crew in the early nineties and originally including 11 members, under the name X Men, which was chosen partly because of their rivalry between Super DJ Clark Kent's crew of DJs, known as the Supermen, and partly after the Marvel Comics characters, but had to change their name due to trademark infringement. After the group's name changed, the crew was later reduced to members Rob Swift, Roc Raida, Total

Synthpop is a genre of music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It originated as part of the New Wave movement of the late 1970s and to mid 1980s, and it has continued to exist and develop ever since. It has seen a rise in popularity in the late 2000/early 2010s. While most current popular music in the industrialized world is realized via electronic instruments, synthpop has its own stylistic tendencies which differentiate it from other music produced by the same means

Joshua Paul Davis (born June 29, 1972) better known as DJ Shadow is an American music producer, DJ and songwriter. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental hip hop and first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut album Endtroducing .., which was constructed almost entirely from samples. He has an exceptionally large record collection, with over 60,000 records. DJ Shadow began his music career as a disc jockey for the University of California

Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise) were an avant garde synthpop group formed in 1983 by engineer/producer Gary Langan, programmer JJ Jeczalik, along with arranger Anne Dudley, producer Trevor Horn and music journalist Paul Morley. The group's mostly instrumental compositions were novel melodic sound collages based on digital sampler technology, which was new at the time. Inspired by turn of the century revolutions in music, the Art of Noise were initially packaged as a faceless anti or non

His Band and the Street Choir (also referred to as Street Choir) is the fourth solo album by Northern Irish singer songwriter Van Morrison. It was released on 15 November 1970 by Warner Bros. Records. Originally titled Virgo's Fool, Street Choir was renamed by Warner Bros. without Morrison's consent. Recording began in April 1970 with a demo session in a small church in Woodstock, New York. Morrison entered the A&R; Studios on 46th Street in New York City the following June to produce His Band