Massive Attack - Paradise Circus

Massive Attack are a DJ and trip hop duo from Bristol, England consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. Working with co-producers, as well as various session musicians and guest vocalists, they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be progenitors of the trip hop genre. Their debut album, Blue Lines was released in 1991, with the single "Unfinished Sympathy" reaching the charts and later being voted the 10th greatest song of all time in a poll by The Guardian.

    History  (contents in Wikipedia)
    1988-1989: Any Love beginnings
    1990-1992: Blue Lines and Unfinished Sympathy's impact
    1993-1996: Protection and their music label imprint, Melankolic
    1997-2001: Mezzanine, Teardrop, the Vowles split and Marshall's absence
    2002-2006: Del Naja's 100th Window, Marshall's return and Collected
    2007-2010: "Weather Underground" / Heligoland era
    2010-present: A future of EPs

Massive Attack's style is often thought of as being experimental.The duo have talked of how they have a different creative approach to each album and "avoid the obvious." Some of their most noted songs have been without choruses and have featured dramatically atmospheric dynamics, conveyed through either epic distorted guitar crescendos, lavish orchestral arrangements (such as swelling, sustained strings or flourishes of grand piano) or prominent, looped/shifting basslines, underpinned by high and exacting production values, involving sometimes copious digital editing and mixing. The pace of their music has often been slower than prevalent British dance music at the time. These and other psychedelic, soundtrack-like and DJist sonic techniques, formed a much-emulated style journalists began to dub "trip hop" from the mid-nineties onwards, though in an interview in 2006, G said, "'We used to hate that terminology [trip-hop] so bad,' laughs. 'You know, as far we were concerned, Massive Attack music was unique, so to put it in a box was to pigeonhole it and to say, "Right, we know where you guys are coming from."'"

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