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slowed-down hip-hop that traded the block for a dimly lit, rain-streaked window
origin cityborn in Bristol, England, early 1990s
the namecoined as a joke by Mixmag magazine
key actsMassive Attack, Portishead, Tricky led the sound
tempodeliberately sluggish beats built for late nights
genre disdainmost artists hated the label entirely