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35-637: The Bristol underground scene is a cultural movement in Bristol , England , beginning in the early 1980s. The scene was born out of a lack of mainstream clubs catering for the emergence of hip hop music , with street and underground parties a mainstay. Many DJ crews formed in the early '80s playing hip hop, house and soul in disused venues with sound systems were borrowed from the reggae scene : City Rockers, 2 Bad, 2 Tuff, KC Rock, UD4, FBI, Dirty Den, Juice Crew, Rene & Bacus, Soul Twins, Fresh 4 and Bristol ultimate DJ Masters The Wild Bunch . These names were

70-669: A club hit, initially peaking at #52 in the UK Dance Chart that year. In 1996, the duo released another two singles: "Domination", and the UK Top 15 hit, " The Gift " (which sampled Joanna Law's cover version of " The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face "). "The Gift" would later be used for the title theme of the MTV television show True Life . On 1 September 1997, the duo released their eponymous debut studio album, Way Out West . The album included most of their previous singles, and also spawned

105-465: A darkness that is uplifting, a joyful melancholy". As a whole, the Bristol sound was characterised by a slow, spaced-out hip hop sound that a number of artists in the early and mid-1990s made synonymous with the city. These artists include Massive Attack , Portishead and Tricky and others such as Way Out West , Smith & Mighty , Up, Bustle and Out , Monk & Canatella , Kosheen , Roni Size , and

140-584: A date range. Thus use of the term "period" is somewhat deceptive. "Period" also suggests a linearity of development, whereas it has not been uncommon for two or more distinctive cultural approaches to be active at the same time. Historians will be able to find distinctive traces of a cultural movement before its accepted beginning, and there will always be new creations in old forms. So it can be more useful to think in terms of broad "movements" that have rough beginnings and endings. Yet for historical perspective, some rough date ranges will be provided for each to indicate

175-617: A defiant, subversive streak in Bristol, and Banksy's work is very much in that tradition." Chemam, Melissa (2019), Massive Attack: Out of the Comfort Zone , Tangent Books, ISBN   1910089729 , ISBN   978-1910089729 Cultural movement Historically, different nations or regions of the world have gone through their own independent sequence of movements in culture ; but as world communications have accelerated, this geographical distinction has become less distinct. When cultural movements go through revolutions from one to

210-611: A five track EP comprising chill-out remixes of songs from Tuesday Maybe , titled Sunday Maybe . The EP's release was supported by the single "Sunday Maybe" on 3 April 2018, and was released on 20 April, on Anjunadeep. In support of their third studio album Don't Look Now in 2004, the duo expanded from their DJ roots to a full-fledged touring collective, playing at festivals such as Glastonbury 2004 , Creamfields , and The Glade . The band had supported Faithless on their Australian tour in October 2004, and embarked on their own tour in

245-478: A heavy student and post-graduate membership. Urban radio projects such as the 1980s pirate, Savage Yet Tender, and Electro Magnetic Installation, were more short-lived. Dialect Radio, Bristol's first community internet radio station, is still going and is broadcast over BCFM 93.2fm most weeks, and is available to download over the internet. It is put together by the Bristol Radio Co-op, is run by volunteers on

280-500: A mixture of club tracks and original songs. Singles from the album included "The Fall", " Mindcircus " (which reached number 1 in the UK Dance Chart ), and the club hit "Intensify". "Activity" from this release also appeared in the 2001 PlayStation 2 game Kinetica and the Paul van Dyk album The Politics of Dancing . In 2003, the duo released the song "Killa", which was later remixed by Orkidea and gained club popularity. "Killa"

315-547: A new remix of the track. Later that year, We Love Machine – The Remixes was released via Hope Recordings. The release featured remixes of tracks from We Love Machine by producers such as Scuba , Henry Saiz , Jaytech and D. Ramirez . In April 2017, Way Out West announced their fifth studio album Tuesday Maybe , with the release of three web-exclusive singles: " Oceans " (featuring Liu Bei), "The Call" (featuring Doe Paoro ) and "Slam". The album also features their 2016 singles "Tuesday Maybe" and "Set My Mind". The album

350-521: A not-for-profit basis, and covers local arts, music, political issues, and local people of interest. An article in 2008 in The Telegraph stated that: "Racial matters have always carried a historical resonance in Bristol, a city made affluent on the profits of tobacco and slave-trading. Street names such as Blackboy Hill and Whiteladies Road remain as reminders." However, common knowledge that both Whiteladies Road and Blackboy Hill had connections with

385-481: A time of social conflict. In the early 1980s, hip hop culture made its way to Bristol and graffiti artists like Robert Del Naja and Banksy began making graffiti art. In music, the Wild Bunch sound system began playing hip hop, reggae, funk and rhythm and blues tracks but with added ambient effects, leading to the development of trip hop music. By definition the underground scene tends to be slightly apart from

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420-551: A trio in 2004 with the addition of singer Omi (Emma Everett) for their third studio album, Don't Look Now . In 2009, their fourth album We Love Machine was released, and after a near eight-year hiatus, they released their fifth album Tuesday Maybe in 2017. Additionally, they are known for their remixes for artists such as Sasha , Reel 2 Real , Paul van Dyk , Orbital , BT and Tiësto . They have produced and performed together for over twenty five years, and have both had success as solo musicians and DJs respectively. In

455-471: Is continual argument over the precise definition of each of these periods as one historian might group them differently, or choose different names or descriptions. Even though in many cases the popular change from one to the next can be swift and sudden, the beginning and end of movements are somewhat subjective. This is because the movements did not spring out of the blue and into existence then come to an abrupt end and lose total support, as would be suggested by

490-851: The "height" or accepted time span of the movement. This list covers Western, notably European and American cultural movements. They have, however, been paralleled by cultural movements in East Asia and elsewhere. In the late 20th and early 21st century in Thailand , for example, there has been a cultural shift away from Western social and political values and more toward Japanese and Chinese . As well, Thai culture has reinvigorated monarchical concepts to accommodate state shifts away from Western ideology regarding democracy and monarchies. Way Out West (duo) Way Out West are an English electronic music duo comprising Jody Wisternoff and Nick Warren . Originating in Bristol , England, they rose to fame in

525-402: The 1990s with their UK-charting singles " The Gift " and "Ajare", and their debut studio album Way Out West was released in 1997 to critical and commercial success. Their 2001 follow-up, Intensify , also garnered chart success, along with its singles "The Fall", "Intensify" and " Mindcircus ", the latter of which reached number one on the UK Dance Chart . Way Out West temporarily became

560-614: The A&;R manager. The duo's fourth album, We Love Machine , was released on 5 October 2009. The song " Only Love " with Jonathan Mendelsohn performing vocals (their first collaboration with a male vocalist) was the first single from the album, released on 31 August 2009, followed by "Future Perfect" on 7 December. The album was released on Hope Recordings and Armada Music . In April 2010, Deconstruction Records re-released "The Gift" together with remixes by Logistics, Gui Boratto , Tek-One and Michael Woods ; Way Out West themselves also recorded

595-609: The High and Mighty", spawned a radical independent political party that polled 15% in Easton ward in 2003. In October 2005 it came runner up for the national Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism. The anarchist-oriented Bristle , "fighting talk for Bristol and the South-West", was started in 1997 and had its twentieth issue in 2005. Its pages especially feature subvertising and other urban street art to complement news, views and comments on

630-603: The UK Singles Chart and was followed by the group's final release on BMG, the UB Devoid EP. Two of the EP's tracks would later go on to feature on their then-upcoming album. On 20 August 2001, Way Out West released their second studio album, Intensify . The album's release was marked by a move from the defunct Deconstruction Records to Distinctive Records , and a change in their sound, from club instrumentals and sampled vocals to

665-512: The Wild Bunch . Many graffiti artists came out of Bristol, including Banksy, an anonymous, English graffiti artist who designed album covers for bands like Blur and Monk & Canatella . Banksy has produced art work in Barcelona, New York City, Australia, London, San Francisco and the West Bank . He uses his original street art form to promote alternative aspects of politics from those displayed by

700-564: The album include "Melt" (appeared in The O.C. as well as the season 2 episode "Bones of Contention" for the series Numb3rs ), and "Just Like a Man" (appeared on season 3, episode 8 of CSI: Miami ). In 2008, Way Out West contributed the song "Evelina" to the Survival International charity album, Songs for Survival . In 2009, Way Out West returned as a duo and moved to the label Hope Recordings , of which Nick Warren continues to be

735-422: The band Massive Attack , Robert Del Naja , originally a graffiti artist, and local graffiti artist Banksy have gone on to produce album covers and artworks. Inkie , collaborator alongside Banksy, also took part in Bristol's counter-culture scene. The music scene in Bristol in the 1970s and '80s was influenced by Caribbean immigrants, as well as the growing UK punk movement of the time. The city of Bristol

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770-477: The band Massive Attack was initially a graffiti artist, "indeed, his first ever live gig was as a DJ accompanying artwork he had produced in a gallery in Bristol". Bristol also has a tradition of print media, now best exemplified by The Bristolian and Bristle magazine. Anarchist Ian Bone 's The Bristolian news sheet achieved a regular distribution of several thousand, with its satirical exposés of council and corporate corruption. The Bristolian , "Smiter of

805-514: The early 1990s, the duo met in a record store that Nick Warren was working in, and discovered their similar direction in music. They then initially produced music under the names Sub-Version 3 and Echo while also releasing remixes as Way Out West, as a side-project. Following the success of their remixes, Way Out West became their main project and the duo signed a deal with Deconstruction Records . Way Out West began releasing singles in 1994, including "Shoot", "Montana", and "Ajare". "Ajare" became

840-474: The late 1980s and early 1990s. The city has been particularly associated with the music genre trip hop . Salon magazine has said that trip hop was spawned in "the bohemian, multi-ethnic city of Bristol, where restlessly inventive DJs had spent years assembling samples of various sounds that were floating around: groove-heavy acid jazz , dub , neo-psychedelia , techno disco music, and the brainy art rap ". The Bristol sound has been described as "possessing

875-423: The local activist scene as well as tackling issues such as drugs, mental health and housing. The 1970s women's liberation paper Enough was succeeded in the 1990s by the environmental and pagan Greenleaf (edited by George Firsoff), West Country Activist , Kebelian Voice , Planet Easton , the anarcho-feminist Bellow and the present-day punk fanzine Everlong , all of which have been published in Bristol. Move

910-421: The mainstream media. Some believe that his graffiti helps to provide a voice for those living in urban environments that could not otherwise express themselves, and that his work is also something which improves the aesthetic quality of urban surroundings. Others disagree, asserting that his work is simply vandalism. There has long been an interplay between the different music and art scenes in Bristol. Del Naja of

945-513: The mainstream, and this is reflected in the politics of some of the artists and musicians associated with it. Robert Del Naja and others openly declared their opposition to the Iraq War , for example. Del Naja and Banksy have both submitted art works to the War Paint exhibition which showcases anti-war art work. The Bristol sound was the name given to a number of bands and producers from Bristol, in

980-491: The next, genres tend to get attacked and mixed up, and often new genres are generated and old ones fade.: These changes are often reactions against the prior cultural form, which typically has grown stale and repetitive. An obsession emerges among the mainstream with the new movement, and the old one falls into neglect – sometimes it dies out entirely, but often it chugs along favored in a few disciplines and occasionally making reappearances (sometimes prefixed with "neo-"). There

1015-484: The precursors to the more well known ones that came from this scene. It is characterized by musicians and graffiti artists. The scene was influenced by the city's multiculturalism , political activism , and the art movements of reggae , punk , hip hop, hippies and new age . Bristol has been particularly associated with the trip hop music genre. The Bristol scene has a strong relationship between music and visual art, particularly graffiti art. A founding member of

1050-511: The singles "Blue" (a reinterpretation of the theme from the film Withnail and I ), and a 1997 re-release of "Ajare", which achieved greater success than the original, charting at position #36 in the UK. On 27 November 2000, Way Out West released their single, "The Fall", (which sampled Coldcut 's cover of " Autumn Leaves ") through BMG ; the former parent company of the group's previous label Deconstruction (defunct in 1998). "The Fall" peaked at #61 on

1085-417: The slave trade is untrue; both names are derived from pubs. "It's a past that we feel equivocal about", says Steve Wright. "It's a double-edged thing. There are the beautiful Georgian terraces that we love, but they were built on the profits of slavery. It's our shady past, and Bristolians are a bit self-effacing, a bit ashamed of it and are quite keen to layer new associations on top of it. There's always been

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1120-477: Was also featured the 2005 video game Juiced . In 2004, Way Out West became a trio with the addition of vocalist Omi (Emma Everett), the group's only ever third member. Later that year, the group then released their third studio album, Don't Look Now . Excluding "Killa", the album spawned two singles: "Anything but You" (featured in the video game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 ) and "Don't Forget Me" (featured in season two of Grey's Anatomy ). Other songs from

1155-468: Was another Women's Liberation magazine; published by the Gay Women's Group, it continued for a number of years in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It had an international circulation, only selling about a quarter in Bristol throughout its existence. Bristol based magazines, Trap , and Crack have emerged from the bass music scene, alternative fashion scenes and alternative art scenes, all of which feature

1190-527: Was beginning to form a sound system culture in the late 1970s, with regular impoundings of music equipment by police. Due to rising social tensions in the city, the 1980 St. Pauls riot occurred, after a police raid of the Black and White Café . After the riots, the police no longer confiscated music equipment. Music fans began looking towards reggae bands like the Black Roots because of their messages of pacifism in

1225-424: Was released on 16 June 2017 through Anjunadeep . In January 2018, Wisternoff hosted a Reddit AMA and hinted at upcoming work from Way Out West, claiming "Me and Nick are working on new material together". He also announced a then upcoming remix album for Tuesday Maybe . On 2 February 2018, the remix album, Tuesday Maybe (Remixed) , was released on digital download stores. In 2018, Way Out West announced

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