February Leftovers

While preparing & serving the Trip-hop feast last month, I ended up with a refrigerator full of Trip-hop leftovers. If I don't use them up now, I'm afraid they might spoil. So time to crack out the Tupperware & dig into the remains.

One more from Tricky. Not really worried about this one ever going bad, it's just so tastee.

 

Tricky - False Idols, False Idols K7308CD, 2013.
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Somebody's Sins
Nothing Matters
Valentine
Bonnie & Clyde
Parenthesis
Nothing's Changed
If Only I Knew
Is That Your Life
Tribal Drums
We Don't Die
Chinese Interlude
Does It
I'm Ready
Hey Love
Passion of the Christ

 

 

 

 

Next up is an artist who worked with Tricky several times in the past (including "If Only I Knew" above), Ms. Fifi Rong. 

 

Fifi Rong - There is a Funeral in My Heart, for Every Man I Loved, Fifi self-released, 2022.

Out of Clock
Only Man
Love Yourself First
Another Me
Distance
Beg for More
I Refused to Break Down
Alchemist
I’m Enough
Dream On
Stay Away
Another Me (acapella)

 

 

 

 

This one missed the February line-up as I ddn't really come across it until after the set was...well...set.

 

 

a.s.o. - a.s.o., Low Flying Records LLR LP 001, 2023.

Side 1 -
Go On    
My Baby's Got it Out for Me
Rain Down    
LITD Pt. 1    
Love in the Darkness    
Cold Feeling

Side 2 -
True    
Falling Under    
Thinking    
Understand    
Somebody

More coming next post,
NØ

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Don't get me wrong here, but our next artist gets it Rong all the time, yet she get's it oh so rite, right?.. 

 

FiFi Rong is a Chinese-British vocalist, songwriter, & producer. Her musical vision was forged in the crucible of her journey from China to the UK alone at age 16. Upon arrival in the UK, she set about exploring the potentials she was forced to repress growing up in China. It was only after she met her childhood musical hero Tricky, who saw FiFi's potential & encouraged her to pursue it, that she began to truly gain confidence in her own work. Her music deftly highlights the duality that merges Eastern roots with Western experience.

FiFi uniquely weaves emotional intimacy & vulnerability into her distinctive sonic vision. She manages to effortlessly blend Trip-hop with elements of alt. pop, R&B, electronica, IDM, avant-garde, & UK Bass, enveloping her unmistakable vocals in this mesmerising tapestry.

Her impressive collaborations include renowned artists such as Skepta, with her vocals gracing his hugely successful UK No. 2 & Mercury Prize-winning album, Konnichiwa. She has also worked with Tricky, Yello (on their chart-topping albums Point & Toy), Phaeleh, & the late Lee 'Scratch' Perry.

Here are a couple early ones, Fifi's debut full-length & an EP from the following year.

 

Fifi Rong - Wrong, FiFi Rong self-released, 2013.
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Addicted to Water    
Only if I Knew    
56 Weeks    
Wrong    
I Need the World to End    
That Night
Twisted    
Time    
Cliff    
For You    
Freedom    
Hurt outa Sudden    
Dreamy Eyes    
Ever Rising Sun

 

 

 

 

Fifi Rong - Next Pursuit EP, FiFi Rong self-released, 2014.

Next Pursuit featuring Sadsic
Intimacy    
Breathless featuring OP9
Wishes' Fault     
Cold in You
Equality featuring Sadsic

 

 

 

 

Addendum: 

 

As a favor to a loyal visitor & contributor to this blog, I am adding a coupla tunes to this post. I wanted him to know that Nothin' was Rong (pun intended). Here is a post-CoTR Telstar single & an Telstar Ep from Monk & Canatella so that this Triphopuary has an M/C.

 

Monk & Canatella - Son 4.5.98, Telstar STAS3025, 1998.

Son 4.5.98
The Bearded One
Darkus Unplug Yourself

 

 

 

 

Monk & Canatella - Enter the Monk EP, Telstar CDSTAS3039, 1999.

Enter the Monk (radio mix)
Monday    
My Style    
Duty Free    
Enter the Monk (original mix)

Enjoy the Trip,
NØ