Portishead
Portishead are a down-tempo, experimental / trip-hop band compromised of Geoff Barrow (Percussion, DJ, Keyboards), Beth Gibbons (Vocals) and Adrian Utley (Guitar, Bass, Keyboards). The name Portishead comes from a nearby town in Somerset
the bands début album "Dummy" was very well received internationally and essentially spawned the mainstream popularity of trip-hop as a genre in 1994 along with fellow Bristol based band Massive Attack who Geoff Barrow had worked with previously.
Portishead have a very distinct sound using lots of tremolo and very dynamic effects giving the lead sounds lots of interesting rhythmic movement which creates a lot of space for Beth's often whisper like vocals. this coupled with a lot of slow downbeat and droney bass give a lot of songs on "Dummy" a very 'underwater' feel.
Portishead are a very secretive band and haven't done very many press interviews nor detailed the set of processes they go through in producing music. this makes it very difficult for me to get down into actual production style through given infomation. However going off the knowlage I have of the album and being able to indentify production technquies via ear I belive I should come out with a remix that is very identifyable as a 'in the style of'.
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