Post 8: Vicente presents Hooverphonic

My favorite kind of music is trip-hop. I actually listen to many kind of music so it’s hard to decide which one is my favorite, but I’m going to talk about trip-hop, because it’s what I’m listening recently. Trip-hop is catalogued as an electronic kind of music, but I think it’s more like a mix between hip-hop and electronic, but no one of them is really recognizable. Trip hop was born in 1990 and I describe it as a really slow kind of music and usually accompanied with soft voices (although men usually sing as ‘rapping’). But actually, trip hop music is very experimental and that’s what I like about it ¡There are many weird things in every song!

One of my favorite bands of this genre is Hooverphonic. Hooverphonic’s most famous song is ‘mad about you’. I came to know this band when I was in secondary school, when a really good friend introduces me to this kind of music, but actually I never really listened until I enter into university (I don’t know why, just happened).

Also I like Massive Attack, well-know because one of their songs appears in the opening of House M.D. (a medical TV show) and Portishead, which is maybe the most important band of this genre. Anyone who says they like Portishead must know ‘glory box’. In fact, Hooverphonic mixes their song ‘mad about you’ with Portishead’s ‘glory box’ in their concerts as a tribute