This blog post will be about the UK trip-hop band known as massive attack:
ž The pioneering force behind the rise of the genre Trip-Hop.
ž New style of downtempo, jazz-, funk-, and soul-inflected experimental breakbeat music
ž “Engeneered music, not trance or techno”
ž “not affronting or accosting, but enveloping and open”
ž Inspires a melancholy, a breeding ground for thought rather than three miniutes of injected emotion.
ž 1983 - The formation of the band “Wild bunch”
ž Wild Bunch folded mid-’80s, two of its members
Andrew Vowles (Mushroom)
Grant Marshall (Daddy G)
Teamed with local graffiti artist
Robert del Naja (3D)
to form Massive Attack in 1987.
Media Use:
ž “Teardrop” has been the opening theme of the American TV series House, MD.
ž Prison Break (Season One),
ž One of the first scenes in The Matrix, circa 1999 the character Neo listens to “Dissolved Girl”,
ž Guy Ritchie’s film Snatch features “Angel”.
Who have they worked with?
ž Madonna on a track for a Marvin Gaye tribute album
ž The Jackal’s movie soundtrack for which they sampled the music of “Metal Postcard” by Siouxsie and the Banshees.
ž Del Naja and Marshall continued as a duo, later working with the likes of David Bowie and Dandy Warhols,
How have they influenced music?
ž Paving the way for such acclaimed artists as
ž Portishead,
ž Morcheeba,
ž UNKLE and
ž Tricky, himself a Massive Attack deciple.
Influenced modern versions of drum and bass and dub-step.
