Groundbeat

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Trip hop (sometimes used synonymously with “downtempo”) is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. It has been described as “a fusion of hip hop and electronica until neither genre is recognizable”, and may incorporate a variety of styles, including funk, dub, soul, psychedelia, R&B, and house, as well as other forms of electronic music. Trip hop can be highly experimental. Deriving from later idioms of acid house, the term was first used by the British music media to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat emerging from the Bristol Sound scene in the early 1990s, which contained influences of soul, funk, and jazz. It was pioneered by acts like Massive Attack, Tricky, and Portishead. Trip hop achieved commercial success in the 1990s, and has been described as “Europe’s alternative choice in the second half of the '90s”.
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Massive Attack
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Massive Attack’s first album "Blue Lines" was released in 1991 to huge success in the United Kingdom. “Blue Lines” was seen widely as the first major manifestation of a uniquely British hip hop movement.
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El Nitsa es uno de los primeros clubs de música electrónica de Barcelona, y aunque aún permanece en activo, el documental trata sobre los orígenes de la sala. De cómo en una sala pequeña comenzó a gestarse lo que a día de hoy se conoce en Barcelona como cultura de clubs. Hoy en día el club es uno de los pesos pesados en Europa, pero en el documental explicaremos cómo se gestó todo. Cómo comenzaron con actuaciones en directo de grupos de música pop y fueron mutando y orientando su programación hacia el tipo de música electrónica emergente. Uno de los objetivos del documental es explicar que en aquella sala pequeña y oscura se gestaron una serie de elementos que, en conjunción, adquirieron una importancia capital para el nacimiento de la escena de clubs. Estos elementos ya existían en Barcelona, pero en el pequeño Nitsa de la Plaça Joan Llongueras se combinaron de una manera especial para acabar explotando.
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Primavera Sound 2020
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Mainstream breakthrough

About this typeface

Groundbeat is a type family that revives the essence of suburbs and evokes the slowed down and breakbeat melodies from the 90s. It is a perfect match for unique display texts in urban contexts.
The downtempo rhythm of this typeface is brought by how all details in its constructions are merged into one unique design. While some square-shaped details give it a blunt structure, the organic approach of its stencil construction gives it the flow. It's the combination of these two features what connects Groundbeat to the dark and yet rhythmic melodies of Trip-Hop since the early stages of its design.
This display type family consists of 6 different styles all preserving the nuances of this unique stencil approach. Groundbeat is both melancholic and atmospherical. Nicely melted for a musical reading.

Designed by
Ricard Garcia and Andreu Balius, 2020

Groundbeat supports:
Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofan, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Greenlandic Old Orthography, Guadeloupean, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Han, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcak, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istroromanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jerriais, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino Sine, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Maori, Marquesan, Meglenoromanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinhpatha, Nagamese Creole, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Qeqchi, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari, Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian Lower, Sorbian Upper, Sotho Northern, Sotho Southern, Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapuk, Voro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waraywaray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wikmungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni

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  • Groundbeat ExtraLight
  • Groundbeat Light
  • Groundbeat Regular
  • Groundbeat SemiBold
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  • Groundbeat Black

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