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This EP was a more challenging listen but also brilliant. The track that isn’t on Youtube is Red Light Green Light which was a screaming cacophony by the time it reached its climax, but was maybe the second best Skylab track of all after Seashell.
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Didn’t one of the Depth Charge covers have an image of a lady who had been ‘enjoying herself’ and they’d made the fingers glow in the dark. If I’ve made that up I’m sick in the head!
Attica Blues were fantastic. That first album on Mo’Wax, a lost classic. And the second, major label album. had some great moments too (and that King Britt remix is still an all time favourite, I have a feeling I already mentioned it here somewhere before. And of course, Tony and Charlie went on to do great things post AB.
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strong!
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Except for the obvious Trip Hop suspects, I loved the Cup of Tea label.
Here are a few highlights
https://youtu.be/3nJaFXtN7Ro
This one still sounds lush
Best song about gardening ever
And this was huge for me too
And this compilation is amazing. One of the best things to come out of that entire era
There were so many good records on Cup of Tea, these are just the very best (for me)
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That cup of tea comp was very nice indeed
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Man, wish I’d kept all my Mo’ Wax. Remember that Le Funk Mob ‘Motor bass gets phunked up’ Ritchie Hawtin mix was it? Superb
Always thought Tricky and Martina Topley-Bird on vocals was next level. Aftermath is still amazing
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The Hawtin mix of La Funk Mob is just killer.
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This thread has had me going down a mid 90’s worm hole. Neither exactly Trip Hop but I’ve re-visited Red Snapper Reeled and Skinned and Ballistic Brothers London Hooligan Soul this morning and its been great
The imaginary scent of squidgy Black and Skunk No. 1 in the air 
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Aye, that Hawtin remix was great but an odd one to mix as i recall. you had to account for the extra 4 bars at the start (was it 4?) so the beats dropped properly, and if you didn’t it sort of deflated the impact of the song a shade, but also it was so bassy that you heard it coming a mile off if you tried to slowly bring it into the mix. I remember auditioning different tracks in the mix with it, so i could try to make it sound impactful if i ever played it in a club. I don’t think i ever got the chance in the end anyway.
I genuinely don’t think i ever heard it being played by a dj who wasn’t just self congratulating himself for being able to play it in a club.
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I always associate this track with the TH scene, Gilles P played it a lot at that time I seem to remember.
Proto Trip Hop
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Red Snapper! And the Aloof. Dean Thatcher. Richard Thair.
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Their last couple of albums were like a descent into hell. So bleak, quite enjoyed them tho 
Yes. Can’t remember which one but its on a 10 inch (fnar)
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incredible track, I first heard it on (I think) a DJ Shadow mix, maybe it was DJ Krush? Both assosiated with Trip Hop anyway.
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One Mo Wax record I did manage to keep is DJ Shadow Lost and Found S.F.L with DJ Krush Kemuri on the flip
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I’ve been looking for my copy of that for a week or two but seem to have misfiled it somewhere.
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The trip hop sound got me interested in more slow electronic sounds with artists like Danny Rose and Danny Breaks etc. A more stripped down and less lush sound(slightly)
This thread inspired me to dig out a Major Force West comp, not played it in years. Still sounding decent.