The Bristol underground scene is a cultural movement in Bristol, England, beginning in the early 1980s. The scene was born out of a lack of mainstream clubs catering to hip hop music's emergence, with street and underground parties a mainstay. Many DJ crews formed in the early '80s playing hip hop, house and soul in disused venues with sound systems were borrowed from the reggae scene: City Rockers, 2 Bad, 2 Tuff, KC Rock, UD4, FBI, Dirty Den, Juice Crew, Rene & Bacus, Soul Twins, Fresh 4 and Bristol ultimate DJ Masters The Wild Bunch. These names were the precursors to the more well-known ones that came from this scene.^[1] It is characterized by musicians and graffiti artists. The city's multiculturalism, political activism, and the art movements of reggae, punk, hip hop, hippies and new age influenced the scene.^[2]

Bristol has been particularly associated with the trip hop music genre.^[3]

The Bristol scene strongly links music and visual art, particularly graffiti art. A founding member of the band Massive Attack, Robert Del Naja, originally a graffiti artist, and local graffiti artist Banksy have gone on to produce album covers and artworks. Inkie, collaborator alongside Banksy, also participated in Bristol's counter-culture scene.^[4][5]