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- Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol by Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws and Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles. The group currently consists of Del Naja, Daddy G and Tricky.
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Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol by Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws and Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles. The group currently consists of Del Naja, Daddy G and Tricky.
Feb 6, 2023 · In a finger-snap, Massive Attack had surrendered their status as the most bullet-proof band in Britain. But as the LP’s 20th anniversary approaches, there is surely a case to be made for...
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- Both spent their formative years in Bristol. Mr Del Naja, who goes by the stage name “3D,” was born in Bristol. He spent the years before joining Massive Attack performing with Bristol-based band The Wild Bunch.
- Their art shares many similarities. A Massive Attack album cover designed by Robert Del Naja. Mr Del Naja is actually a well-known visual artist, whose art has appeared on every one of Massive Attack’s record sleeves.
- They claim to be friends. While both men have denied the rumours they are the same person, neither of them have denied there is a connection. In fact, Mr Del Naja told the Daily Mail that Banksy is a “mate,” and that he’s “been to some of the [Massive Attack] gigs”.
- They roll in the same circles. Banksy and Robert Del Naja's mutual friend Geoff Barrow performs at SXSW (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images) (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images for A24)
- Their Music Is Almost Impossible to Categorise Or Describe
- Not only That, But Each Album Is Significantly Different from The Last
- They’Ve Drawn Brilliant Work from A Dizzying Array of Collaborators
- They’Re Not from London, Or Any Other Huge City
- Protection Inspired No Protection...
- They Make Babies Kick in The Womb
Massive Attack don’t sound like anyone else. Yes, they form, or formed, part of a Bristol-based movement loosely known as trip-hop, but how exactly do you describe their sound? A mixture of rap, funk, jazz, dub reggae? Nah, that’s way too prosaic. Incredibly dense and murky, almost brutally heavy, but at the same time dreamy and feather-light, and ...
Trace a sonic progression from Blue Lines through Protection, Mezzanine and 100th Window up to the most recent, Heligoland – and you’ll find that there really is no progression. It’s all so fluid, mutable, ever-surprising. Pray for Rain from Heligoland:
Shara Nelson, Tracey Thorn, Horace Andy, Guy Garvey, Hope Sandoval, Damon Albarn, Elizabeth Fraser, Sinead O’Connor, Martina Topley-Bird and others. And it doesn’t feel forced or “ooh look at all our celebrity friends”. These collaborations serve the music, always. Here's Special Cases with Sinead O'Connor:
Perhaps that’s why they’re so good, and so unusual; you get room to breathe, artistically, outside the major conurbations. (And no wonder so much of the London and Manchester-centred Britpop was so lumpen, conformist and unimaginative.) See also: Dorset’s one-of-a-kind PJ Harvey, or the mighty Suede, who may sing about London but mostly hail from s...
...wherein the Mad Professor remixed the album, or rather deconstructed and reassembled it, with fantastic results.
Swear to God – tiny embryonic music fans just love those floaty vocals and deep, deeeeep heartbeat basslines. The beats on Angel even sounded like a pulse, muffled but clearly reverberating through the amniotic sea. (Narcotic, amniotic – yeah. Maybe that’s the best description.)
Dec 28, 2013 · Massive Attack broke through with force and speed with 1991’s classic debut Blue Lines, and refined their sound with 1994’s languid, skunk-scented Protection. It was 1998’s Mezzanine, however,...
Massive Attack | Home. 25.09.24. When we incepted and commissioned the ACT 1.5 project in 2019, we did so with one core objective: to help decarbonise live music at a rate compatible with the critical Paris 1.5 agreement commitments.
Jul 5, 2023 · Released 25 years ago, Massive Attack’s third album, ‘Mezzanine’, signalled the closing of a chapter for the influential Bristol electronic group, and the beginning of a new one for British music as a whole.
