Timofey Chaplyuk's lecture examines trip-hop as the sound of the 1990s - slow, dark, and cinematic. From Bristol to Massive Attack and Portishead, from the underground to pop culture - listeners will trace the path of a style that still resonates in film, club music, and personal playlists, captivating with its bass and haunting beauty. In the 1990s, the music scene suddenly began to speak in the language of muted beats, thick bass, and voices seemingly drifting from a half-sleep. Bristol became a magnet for a new sound: slow, dark, woven from hip-hop, dub, soul, electronics, and cinematic timbres. In the lecture, cultural scholar and musicologist Timofey Chaplyuk will explore why this style quickly transcended the underground and became one of the defining symbols of the decade. The discussion will resonate with those who listen to Massive Attack, Portishead, or Tricky, and those who have encountered their influence in soundtracks, advertisements, club culture, and contemporary pop music. The lecturer will explain the conditions that formed around trip-hop, why Bristol became the launchpad for it, and how slow drums, prominent bass, unsettling pauses, and ghostly vocals worked. Through these details, it will become clearer why the music, born at the intersection of genres, so accurately expressed the nerve of the 1990s - a fatigue from gloss, an interest in the twilight city, inner drama, and the cold beauty of electronic sound.