Mad Professor/Massive Attack - No Protection: Massive Attack Vs. Mad Professor

Artist:

Professor, Mad

UPC:

724384029029

See Also:

Skatalites (The) Niney The Observer Brown, James Wailers (The) Perry, Lee "Scratch" Gaye, Marvin Mad Professor/Marcelinho Da Lua - In Dubwise Style

Description:

NO PROTECTION is Mad Professor`s dub version of the Massive Attack album PROTECTION.
Personnel: Massive Attack (programming); Mad Professor (drums, percussion); Tracey Thorn, Nicolette, Horace Andy, Tricky (vocals); Chester Kamen (guitar); Craig Armstrong (piano, string arrangement); William The Conqueror (keyboards); Nolan Iril (drums, percussion); Rob Merrill (drums); Marius De Vries, Andy Wright, The Insects, Nick Warren (programming).
Although variously labeled as hip-hop, trip-hop and soul, the distinctive sound forged by Massive Attack often resembles a more innovative take on the lover`s rock style of reggae that launched the careers of Caron Wheeler and Maxi Priest. (Massive Attack in turn put themselves on the map as a group with tunes voiced by old-time reggae crooner Horace Andy). Viewed in that light, it seems a natural decision for the group to invoke the time-honored Jamaican tradition of the dub album, a group of tracks (taken in this case from their critically acclaimed PROTECTION) reworked by a mixing board auteur like Mad Professor.
A second generation digital offspring of original dub pioneers like King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry, the professor`s concoctions bear only a distant relationship to the analog dub which emanated from Tubby`s reel-to-reel and echo-chamber set-up. While spiritually akin to `70s dub, the sound here is transformed by Mad Prof`s digital production values, the acid house aesthetics of 1990s London, and of course unmistakable Massive Attack elements--like the fragments of Tracey Thorn`s torch song vocal that reverberate throughout.

Album Information

Release Date:

02/20/1995

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Electronic

Subgenre:

Electronica

Label:

EMI Music Distribution

Catalog Number:

8402902

Original Release Year:

1995

# of Discs:

1

SPARS Coding:

DDD

Studio/Live:

Studio

Guest Artist:

Tricky; Tracey Thorn; Horace Andy

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