Morcheeba, Trigger Hippie - Morcheeba, Trigger Hippie

What this video is

Released in October 1995 as Morcheeba's debut single on China Records, 'Trigger Hippie' arrived at the apex of the British trip-hop movement, sharing cultural space with Portishead's 'Dummy' (1994) and Massive Attack's 'Protection' (1994). The track blends Paul Godfrey's hip-hop production sensibility, Ross Godfrey's psychedelic rock influences, and Skye Edwards' soul-inflected vocals into a sound that, while…

Why it matters

As Morcheeba's debut release, this video represents the band's first audiovisual statement of a sound that would evolve across ten albums. It functions as a time-capsule artefact of the mid-1990s British downtempo underground — a genre moment when trip-hop briefly occupied serious critical and…

The director

Mike Lipscombe is a British music video director and producer active primarily from the mid-1990s through the 2000s. He is credited with directing over 38 music videos and received Grammy and Brit Award nominations. He won MTV and MTV Asia awards and was…