Great production, reminds me of a neo noir film or opium den soundtrack.
Massive Attack broke through with force and speed with 1991’s classic debut Davidge belonged to the same constellation of musicians and producers who clustered around Bristol’s Coach House Studios, where For all the new emphasis on proceeding as a “band”, recording was a sedimentary process, with Davidge often the only constant as band members came and went. So even right from the start, we had the day split into the different contributors.”This ships-by-night approach wasn’t conducive to collective harmony; indeed, Davidge describes the band dynamic during recording as “totally dysfunctional.” That goes with the Massive Attack territory, of course: the atmosphere during the “I love D, he’s like a brother, but he’s an argumentative bastard, and he’ll run rings around people if they’re not switched on. In 2000, As of 2010, sales in the United States have exceeded 560,000 copies, according to The album was remastered and reissued for its 20th anniversary. The band's most successful commercial outing, 'Mezzanine' went on to sell over 4 million copies, and win the Q Award for 1998's Best Album. Robert Del Naja first started making samples from new wave records, from the likes of Wire and Gang of Four: it was the music he'd listened to in his early teens. Mezzanine is Massive Attack’s most polyglot album – the natural product of the band’s too-many-cooks “collective” practice, multiracial background and broad pool of influences. The album cover was a result of the first collaboration between Robert Del Naja, aka 3D, art director Tom Hingston and famed fashion photographer Nick Knight OBE. He hated going into the studio and not knowing what he was going to do. G would be there for a little while and he’d go off and do something, and then D would turn up in the late afternoon or early evening. Whereas D was very much “Let’s get in the studio and make some noise and see what happens…It was a creative mindset that used to frustrate the Davidge tells one incredible story – “the final straw” – about how, after some intra-Massive skullduggery, One track that changed the course of the album considerably was album opener ‘Angel’, plucked out of thin air at a mixing session at London’s Olympic Studios. The production of Mezzanine was a stressful process. Then Horace put the vocal down and it was like, “Wow, shit, that is magic”. DVD Covers; Blu-Ray Covers; Console covers. Released in 1998, Mezzanine arrived as the Britpop flame was dying out. If you like this, listen to 100th window, the album after this. “Suddenly we had this sort of club-dark-ambient-romantic-soul, with these really heavy guitars and drums pounding in.” That haphazard, piecemeal approach was key to the way In order to give you the best experience, we use cookies and similar technologies for performance, analytics, personalization, advertising, and to help our site function.The Vinyl Factory Group, trading as: The Vinyl Factory, Vinyl Factory Manufacturing, Phonica Records, FACT Magazine, FACT TV, Spaces Magazine, Vinyl Space, and The Store X, uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, enabling things like:Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.Cookies and similar technologies are used to improve your experience, to do things like:“I love 3D, he’s like a brother, but he’s an argumentative bastard.”“Horace put the vocal down and it was like, “Wow, shit, that is magic.””gdpr, woocommerce_cart_hash, woocommerce_items_in_cart, _wp_wocommerce_session, sucuri_cloudproxy_uuid_*
That's certainly the case for the album that lay behind this work of modern art. “Mushroom would come into the studio and we’d spend a couple of hours together, then G would come in and Mushroom would probably go off and do some errands or something, and then maybe or maybe not come back to the studio later. Genesis covers; NES covers; Nintendo 64 covers; Playstation 4 covers; Sega CD covers; Super Ninentendo covers; XBOX covers; Wii covers; Wii U covers; PC covers; Handheld covers. They disagreed about the musical direction for the new material. CD, Album Japan. If you need background music or something with a bit more kick, Mezzanine has it covered – perfect for your next party, corporate function, wedding, book launch, gallery opening…. With tensions arising within the group, it almost split the band.
Virgin – VJCP-25360. This album is voted one of the most sensual/sexual/love making albums of the past two decades.
Grant Marshall, als Massive Attack - Mezzanine album cover. Years after the album was released, it was placed on several best-of lists in the UK and the United States. Set upon a white canvas, a hunk of black sludge stains the purity, thus creating something that looks futuristic and dark.