Massive Attack are a music production and vocal duo from Bristol, UK. Working alongside co-producers, they assemble a collective of various favoured session musicians and guest vocalists with whom they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be progenitors of a genre named trip hop. Originally there were three of them - DJ's Grantley "Grant" Marshall (Daddy G / "G"), Andrew "Andy" Vowles (Mushroom / "Mush") and painter-turned-MC Robert Del Naja (3D / "D") met as members of The Wild Bunch, one of the first homegrown sound systems in the UK and a dominantly eclectic force on the 1980s Bristolian club scene. Starting out as a spin-off production trio in 1988, with the independently-released song, "Any Love", sung by falsetto-voiced singer-songwriter Carlton McCarthy, they later signed to Circa Records in 1990 - committing to deliver 6 studio albums and a "Best Of" compilation. Circa became a subsidiary of, and was later subsumed into, Virgin Records, which in turn was acquired by the now Terra Firma-owned major, EMI.
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- Official homepage at massiveattack.co.uk
- Fanpage at massiveattackarea.com, massiveattack.ie and red-lines.co.uk
- Wikipedia article on Massive Attack
- IMDb at imdb.com/name/nm1818610
- MySpace at myspace.com/massiveattack
- Last.fm page on Massive Attack
- MusicBrainz entry on Massive Attack
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Credits
| Role | Artist | Release |
|---|---|---|
| Producer | Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor | No Protection (1995) |
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