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Trip Hop in the 2000s
In the 2000s, Trip-Hop began expanding its influence more prominently into other genres. RJD2 began his career as a DJ, but in 2001 he began releasing albums under El-P's Def Jux Label. Though labeled as Left-Field Hip-Hop, he prominently uses Trip-Hop in his music. In the same year, Zero 7 released You Are Beautiful at All Times. The song Destiny became a huge hit in the underground circle. In 2006,Gotye debuted his first album Like Drawing Blood. The songs on the album featured down-tempo hip-hop beats and dub style bass reminiscent of Trip-hop. Hip-Hop, group Zion I utilized heavy Trip-Hop influence in their 2008 album The Take Over. Dub Pistols were another hip-hop group that began incorporating heavy Trip-hop influence into their music. Norwegian singer and songwriter, Kate Havnevik, is a classically trained music, but also incorporates Trip-Hop in her debut album Melankton. She has also collaborated with Marius de Vries, who has worked with Björk.

Producers
A lot of producers began to show their Trip-Hop influence with several albums that came out in the early 2000s. Nathaniel Merriweather, aka Dan The Automator, released two albums that were heavily inspired by Trip-Hop. 2000 album Deltron 3030, was a concept album about a rapper, portrayed by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, from the future. 2001 saw the release of his side project, Lovage. They released Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By, with special guests Mike Patton, Prince Paul, Maseo, Damon Albarn, and Afrikka Bambaata. British producer Fatboy Slim's break through album, Halfway Between the Gutter and The Stars, was his most commercially successful release. He used funky break beats and combined them Trip-hop stylistics.

Trip-Hop in the 2010s
In the 2010s, Trip-hop artists that were famous in the 90s began making a comeback. Massive Attack released Heligoland in 2010, their first album in over half a decade. DJ Shadow released The Less You Know, The Better. In 2012 Geoff Barrow, of Portishead fame, released >>. A mix of kraut rock and trip-hop. Lilacs & Champagne, a duo from Portland, Oregon, began to fuse psychedelic, indie rock, left field hip-hop, and trip-hop to create a unique sound for their debut self-titled album.