Massive Attack

Massive Attack have been appointed as curators of this year's Meltdown Festival. The annual music fest takes place at Southbank Centre and has been curated by David Bowie, John Peel, Jarvis Cocker, Patti Smith and many more. Massive Attack have worked with Portishead, Mos Def, Tricky, Sinead and many more during the last 3 decades. It will be fantastic to see who they choose for the festival lineup!Meanwhile, Grant 'Daddy G' Marshall and Robert '3D' Del Naja of Massive ... MORE

As it's a little long, the post will be split in to two parts, with some interesting and illuminating background to the story coming in Part 2... Listen to the track as you read the post. The song is from Shinjuku Zulu's "Various Chimeras Instrumentals" CD at iTunes HERE Hands with more cracks than a riverbed in a drought, shoulders muscled like a man's, brown hair sunbleached light from long days outside... all mostly from doing the laundry: lugging buckets, making s... MORE

Though it goes uncredited in the album notes, this short dubbed up drum loop at the start fo 5 Man Army is brilliant when Massive Attack uses it and brilliant in it's original form. It is one of the reasons I was drawn to Blue Lines when it came out.For me this is a perfect example of why chasing samples is so rewarding. Just another way to find great music, and this original is a massive cut by an all time great. When I used to DJ at a bar in Chicago and play the original... MORE

The 2008 Meltdown Festival is looking sharp! The Southbank Centre event is curated by Massive Attack this year and they've chosen a mixture of classic electronica, roots reggae, fun hip hop, dub to dubstep and more! In addition to the bands, there will also be visual artists and special performances, like Vangelis' Blade Runner Soundtrack performed live by the Heritage Orchestra and mixed by Massive Attack! The festival also features a screening of "James Brown Saved Bo... MORE

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Whenever I hear "Angel" by Massive Attack, I'm always reminded of the film Snatch which is one of my faves from Guy Richie's films..Last Friday I covered press for the forthcoming action flick The Condemned which stars the WWE pro wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (the Longest Yard) and Vinnie Jones (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) Vinnie Jones totally eschewed that "hard as a coffin nail" persona that he'd perfected in Richie's films and even though my reco... MORE

Ok apparently I can't post music that I ripped to windows media player from cd I can only post music that was already in mp3 form when I recieved it. strange? any one know how to get around this? I tried tech suport but they must all be lethargic from listening to the new radiohead and thus have not gotten back to me. So anyway my sharable media library is now considerably smaller untill I can find out how to fix this. anyway here's angel by massive attack enjoy

Looking back, "Goodie Bag" almost seems like an uneven song trade, because within a few days James introduced me to a song that I still consider one of the beautiful songs I have ever heard in my life. My life was NEVER the same after this.

I'm a big fan of Massive Attack and Tricky. I wanted to post 3 songs that I didn't realize were all the same song until about 3 years ago. I find it interesting the different takes on each. I don't know who the line up is. I assume the girl from Goldfrapp is on the Tricky song and Tricky is on the original Massive Attack song but I'm not sure about the line up from the Help compilation. 3 songs and 3 different takes. Each which might create a different feeling with t... MORE

...I got my coat pulled about a post that andrew lau threw up called The F-Word wherein the folks at Rhino Records were taken to task for going too deep on a Foreigner compilation; a band that some would opine didn't have an anthology's worth of cuts to re-issue in the first place...I posted my two cents on his post but then got to thinking, how much is too much? Clearly there's a lot of schlocky old acts that should never be resurrected from the dead but, as I'm fond of s... MORE

I was living in Santa Barbara...I walked into a music store..this was playing... it has been LOVE ever since...her voice touches me...like a soft warm caress on the skin.....yeah its like that

...I wrote the following in a comment a few months ago after seeing Massive Attack play at the Hollywood Bowl "I realized that Massive Attack is one of those bands you go to feel, not necessarily to see/hear (if you’re driftin’ me) and that digital equalizer display expedited that fact throughout it all…I went on a whim and am glad I did so…" ..if you've never seen 'em live and want to see what I'm talking about, check the video below for "Inertia Creeps" which I think... MORE