‘In Flux’ by DJ Shadow back in the first half of the nineties was probably the record to get the trip hop thing off the ground, even though there had been tracks before coming out of Bristol, courtesy of Massive Attack and The Wild Bunch. I can’t remember exactly when the Mixmag article appeared which coined the genre, but it was 1994 maybe? Anyway, DJ Shadow and his cross-pollinated approach was pretty much out there as much as anything else ever. And when this appeared it was a ridiculously influential record. Nowhere mores than in Paris, where I was living at the time. This is another record I bought at the Bastille branch of Rough Trade where, as well as aficionados of house and techno hanging out, you also had the beat scientists like DJ Cam, etc. Anyways, I just thought of this track and I’m glad I did. Strap yourself in and put the headphones on.
