Instrumental Hip-Hop

Originating Location: US and UK

Originating Era: 1990s

Key Artists

 * Coldcut
 * DJ Shadow
 * MF Doom
 * Caribou
 * Boom Bip

Key Albums

 * DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
 * Coldcut - Let Us Play

Genre Description
Instrumental Hip-Hop is, oddly enough, Hip Hop minus the Rap. It's very similar to and often rolled up in various electronica-genres, including Trip-Hop and Industrial. DJ Shadow is considered one of the first to make Instrumental Hip-Hop into a genre by itself, though some music that has come before fits the bill as well.

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