ProbableNamed from the place
Bristol sound
noun · first attested 1990s
Journalists coined trip hop for it; the musicians preferred the city's name.
The slow, dub-inflected style of British dance music associated with Bristol acts in the 1990s.
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Bristol sound
Massive Attack, Portishead, and Tricky emerged from overlapping Bristol crews around the turn of the 1990s, and the music press labeled the result the Bristol sound. Several of the artists rejected both the trip hop tag and the idea that there was a single scene at all.
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