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  "slug": "tricky",
  "name": "Tricky",
  "description": "Tricky appears 2 times in our Trip-Hop list, placing as high as No. 3. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-28",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/tricky/",
  "appearanceCount": 2,
  "distinctRecordings": 2,
  "years": {
    "first": 1994,
    "last": 1995
  },
  "highestPlacing": {
    "rank": 3,
    "list": "Trip-Hop"
  },
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    {
      "kind": "genre",
      "slug": "trip-hop",
      "name": "Trip-Hop",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/trip-hop/",
      "entries": 2
    }
  ],
  "tracks": [
    {
      "trackKey": "tricky--aftermath",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/tricky--aftermath/",
      "title": "Aftermath",
      "year": 1994,
      "label": "4th & Broadway",
      "isrc": "GBANY9400112",
      "whyItMatters": "Claustrophobic, mumbled, and structurally barely there. Tricky made records that sound like being told a secret you did not want, and this is the first and best of them.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Tricky%20Aftermath",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=25y3cMC9i94",
          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": 3,
      "on": {
        "kind": "genre",
        "slug": "trip-hop",
        "name": "Trip-Hop",
        "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/trip-hop/"
      },
      "artist": "Tricky"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "tricky--hell-is-round-the-corner",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/tricky--hell-is-round-the-corner/",
      "title": "Hell Is Round the Corner",
      "year": 1995,
      "label": "4th & Broadway",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Built on the same Isaac Hayes loop as Glory Box, released within months of it, and utterly unlike it. The clearest available demonstration that in Bristol the sample was a starting point rather than the idea.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Tricky%20Hell%20Is%20Round%20the%20Corner",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=NUJqsY140Po",
          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": 10,
      "on": {
        "kind": "genre",
        "slug": "trip-hop",
        "name": "Trip-Hop",
        "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/trip-hop/"
      },
      "artist": "Tricky"
    }
  ],
  "curates": null
}