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The Daily OrangeTrip hop revival
After years of obscurity, genre makes full-fledged return to the spotlight
By Dan Kaplan
Posted: 9/23/08, 12:39 AM EST Section: Decibel
Portishead released its third studio album, appropriately titled "Third," in April. The album debuted in the top ten on both sides of the Atlantic, marking the band's first Top 10 album on the Billboard 200. It has sold nearly a million copies worldwide.
Gorillaz
Though Gorillaz sometimes sport more of an alternative rock sound, the group's foundations are all trip-hop.
Gorillaz emerged as a virtual band of cartoon characters in 2001, the result of a collaboration between Blur vocalist Damon Albarn, producer Dan the Automator and "Tank Girl" comic artist Jamie Hewlett.
Singles like "19-2000" and the smash hit "Clint Eastwood" propelled the band's self-titled debut album to sales of over seven million copies worldwide.
The album's follow up, "Demon Days," earned the band a Grammy Award for the song "Feel Good, Inc." Gorillaz is featured in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band.
In November 2007, the band released "D-Sides," its second compilation of b-sides and remixes (the first being called "G-Sides"). Despite the lack of a proper single or promotion, the album still charted on the Billboard 200.
sdkaplan@syr.edu
Gorillaz
Though Gorillaz sometimes sport more of an alternative rock sound, the group's foundations are all trip-hop.
Gorillaz emerged as a virtual band of cartoon characters in 2001, the result of a collaboration between Blur vocalist Damon Albarn, producer Dan the Automator and "Tank Girl" comic artist Jamie Hewlett.
Singles like "19-2000" and the smash hit "Clint Eastwood" propelled the band's self-titled debut album to sales of over seven million copies worldwide.
The album's follow up, "Demon Days," earned the band a Grammy Award for the song "Feel Good, Inc." Gorillaz is featured in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band.
In November 2007, the band released "D-Sides," its second compilation of b-sides and remixes (the first being called "G-Sides"). Despite the lack of a proper single or promotion, the album still charted on the Billboard 200.
sdkaplan@syr.edu
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