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Risingson
"Risingson" is a song by the English trip hop group Massive Attack, released as a single on 7 July 1997 by Virgin Records. It is the first single from their third album, ''Mezzanine'' (1998), and the eighth single overall. Background and composition The single contains a sample of " I Found a Reason", a song by The Velvet Underground. Reception Reception for the song was positive. John Bush of AllMusic described the song as "a dense, dark feature for Massive Attack themselves (on production as well as vocals), with a kitchen sink's worth of dubby effects and reverb." Kevin Courtney from ''Irish Times'' declared it "a dark, deep forest of a tune, with vocals by 3D and Daddy G, and extra mixes by Underworld's Darren Emerson." British magazine ''Music Week'' rated it four out of five, adding, "Moody, dark atmospherics with prowling bass and gruff raps that suggests a darker approach for the Bristol trio's third LP." Music video The accompanying music video for "Risingson" stars all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mezzanine (album)
''Mezzanine'' is the third studio album by English electronic music group Massive Attack, released on 20 April 1998 by Circa and Virgin Records. For the album, the group began to explore a darker aesthetic, and focused on a more atmospheric style influenced by British post-punk, industrial music, hip hop and dub music. The album spawned four singles, " Risingson", " Teardrop", "Angel" and " Inertia Creeps". It was the group's first album not to feature rapper Adrian "Tricky" Thaws and the last to feature Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles. It also marked the first collaboration between Robert "3D" Del Naja and producer Neil Davidge. It also features guest vocals from recurring collaborator Horace Andy, as well as Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins and Sarah Jay Hawley. ''Mezzanine'' received significant critical acclaim, with many praising the group’s darker sound. It has been named by several publications as one of the best albums of the 1990s and of all time. It is the group's mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Stern (director)
Walter Adrian Stern (born 16 November 1965 in Marylebone, London) is an English music video film director. Biography Walter Stern was born in 1965 to an Austrian-Jewish father and an English mother. Music videos Stern began his career directing music videos at Control, a small production company based in London. In 1993, he moved to production company Stigma Films where he first directed a promo for the band The Prodigy. Their collaboration continued throughout the mid to late 1990s, including two critically acclaimed and award-winning promos in 1996: " Firestarter", which won Best Video in the ''NME'' People's Choice Award 1996, and " Breathe", which won Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards 1997. Stern joined Academy Films in 1997, introducing himself with the video for The Verve's "Bitter Sweet Symphony". That same year, he began another successful collaboration, this time with the band Massive Attack. This relationship produced promos for " Risingson" (1997), " Teardr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massive Attack
Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol, England, by Robert Del Naja, Robert "3D" Del Naja, Daddy G, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, Tricky (musician), Adrian "Tricky" Thaws and Andrew Vowles, Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles. The group currently consists of Del Naja and Marshall. They released their debut album in 1991, ''Blue Lines,'' which has been included on numerous best-of lists and is generally considered the first album of the 'trip-hop' genre. The single "Unfinished Sympathy" was a chart hit in Europe, including number one on the Dutch Top 40, and was later voted the 63rd-greatest song of all time in a poll by ''NME''. In 1994, they released their second album, Protection (Massive Attack album), ''Protection''. Thaws left the band later that year to pursue a solo career. In 1998, they released their third album, ''Mezzanine (album), Mezzanine'', giving them their first number one on the UK Albums Chart. ''Mezzanine'' also contains the top-10 si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Davidge
Neil Davidge is an English record producer, songwriter, film score composer and musician. Once an associate of dance producers DNA, he is best known as the long-term co-writer and producer for trip hop collective Massive Attack. In 1997, he also produced the Sunna album '' One Minute Science''. During that time he has established a career as a film score composer including projects such as ''Push'', Bullet Boy, Trouble the Water, and additional music for ''Clash of the Titans''. Artists he has worked with include Unkle, Damon Albarn, Elizabeth Fraser, Mos Def, David Bowie, and Snoop Dogg. In 2012, he composed the soundtrack to the video game '' Halo 4'' and recorded "The Storm That Brought Me To You" with Tina Dico and Ramin Djawadi for the ''Clash of the Titans'' soundtrack, the first vocal track for which he is credited as an artist separately from Massive Attack. In 2017, Davidge composed the critically acclaimed soundtrack for the TV series, ''Britannia'', and in 2023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karmacoma
"Karmacoma" is a song by British trip hop collective Massive Attack, released as the third and final single from their second album, ''Protection'', on 20 March 1995. It contains rap vocals from band members 3D and Tricky. Tricky also recorded his own version of "Karmacoma", renamed "Overcome" for his debut studio album, ''Maxinquaye''. Massive Attack themselves recorded a second version of the song (without Tricky) renamed "Fake the Aroma" on ''The Help Album'', a compilation album for the charity War Child. The music video for "Karmacoma" was directed by Jonathan Glazer, his first. Samples The main rhythmic structure of the track is a loop taken from Nusret Fateh Ali Khan qawali 'Dam mast qalender mast mast'. The melodic refrain (at 0:54) is taken from the opera ''Prince Igor'' by Russian composer Alexander Borodin, and also includes a sample of Tuvan throat singing also used by The KLF in " Dream Time in Lake Jackson", both of which come from the documentary 'Herders of Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teardrop (song)
"Teardrop" (also formatted as "Tear Drop") is a song by English trip hop group Massive Attack. Vocals are performed by Scottish singer Elizabeth Fraser, former lead singer of Cocteau Twins, who also wrote the lyrics. It was released on 27 April 1998 by Circa and Virgin Records, Virgin as the second single from the group's third studio album, ''Mezzanine (album), Mezzanine'' (1998). A harpsichord-driven track, "Teardrop" was originally set to feature vocals from Madonna, whom Massive Attack turned down in favour of Fraser. In the United Kingdom, "Teardrop" peaked at number 10, becoming the group's highest-charting single and only top-10 hit in their native country. It reached number one in Iceland and became a top-20 hit in Australia, Denmark, Ireland, and New Zealand. The music video, directed by Walter Stern (director), Walter Stern, features a foetus singing in the womb, and the song has been featured in various television programmes, including as the opening theme for the US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Finnish Charts
The Official Finnish Charts (; ) are national record charts in Finland compiled and published by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. The name ''Suomen virallinen lista/Finlands officiella lista'' (lit. "the Official Finnish Chart"), which is singular in both Finnish and Swedish, is used generically to refer to both the albums and the singles chart, and the context (albums or songs) reveals which chart is meant. History The first charts were published in 1951. In January 1991, the Yle radio station Radiomafia started to compile the first weekly chart in Finland called ''Radiomafian lista'', which was broadcast on the radio every Sunday. Prior to that, all singles and album charts in Finland had been either monthly or biweekly published sales charts. ''Radiomafian lista'' became the official Finnish charts in January 1994 when they began a partnership with Suomen Ääni- ja kuvatallennetuottajat (ÄKT) (now known as Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland), the umbrella organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultratop 50
Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium. Ultratop is a non-profit organization, created in 1995 on the initiative of the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA), the Belgian member organization of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Two parallel sets of charts are concurrently produced and published; one is on behalf of Belgium's mainly Dutch-speaking Flanders region, and the other catering to the nation's mainly French-speaking region of Wallonia. Ultratop charts The music charts produced by Ultratop organization are separated along regional-language boundaries, an unusual division that is justified by the cultural differences in Belgium. So it is that the mainly Dutch-speaking Flanders region has one set of charts of record activity there, while the mainly French-speaking Wallonia region has another set to measure popularity in those provinces. The charts are broadcast on several Belgian radio st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark "Spike" Stent
Mark "Spike" Stent (born 3 August 1965) is an English record producer and mixing engineer who has worked with many international artists including Madonna, Marshmello, U2, Beyoncé, Björk, Depeche Mode, Echo & the Bunnymen, Grimes, Ed Sheeran, Beth Orton, Harry Styles, Frank Ocean, Vince Staples, Selena Gomez, All Saints, Spice Girls, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Mansun, Gorillaz, Maroon 5, Muse, Lily Allen, Peter Gabriel, Gwen Stefani, Moby, No Doubt, Lenka, Usher, Kaiser Chiefs, Linkin Park, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Oasis, Keane, Massive Attack, Bastille, Diana Vickers and Take That.Tingen, Paul (January 1999)"Spike Stent: The Work Of A Top-flight Mixer" ''Sound on Sound''. Retrieved 3 May 2025. Career Stent grew up in Hampshire, England and first gained experience as an engineer at Jacobs Studios as a teenager before a two-year stint at Trident Studios. After Trident, Stent worked at Olympic Studios in Barnes, South London. While at Olympic, Stent worked with artists such as Massiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ProTools
Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly Digidesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is used for music creation and production, sound for picture (sound design, audio post-production and mixing) and, more generally, sound recording, editing, and mastering processes. Pro Tools operates both as standalone software and in conjunction with a range of external analog-to-digital converters and PCIe cards with on-board digital signal processors (DSP). The DSP is used to provide additional processing power to the host computer for processing real-time effects, such as reverb, equalization, and compression and to obtain lower latency audio performance. Like all digital audio workstation software, Pro Tools can perform the functions of a multitrack tape recorder and a mixing console along with additional features that can only be performed in the digital domain, such as non-linear and non-destructive editing (most of audi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Bruschini
Angelo Bruschini (1960/1961 – 23 October 2023) was an English guitarist from Bristol who contributed to the region's trip hop explosion in the 1990s and 2000s. Career He was a member of The Numbers, Rimshots, The Blue Aeroplanes, and both toured and recorded as a member of Massive Attack on their albums ''Mezzanine (album), Mezzanine'' (1998) and ''100th Window'' (2003). He produced Strangelove (band), Strangelove's eponymous album in 1997. He also played guitar on Jane Taylor's single "Blowing This Candle Out" in 2003. Bruschini died of lung cancer on 23 October 2023, at the age of 62. References External links * [ Angelo Bruschini at Allmusic] Angelo Bruschini MySpace page * * 1960s births Year of birth missing 2023 deaths English male guitarists English rock guitarists 21st-century English guitarists Deaths from lung cancer in the United Kingdom 20th-century English guitarists Musicians from Bristol British people of Italian descent English people of Italian d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Week
''Music Week'' is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine. It is published by Future. History Founded in 1959 as ''Record Retailer'', it relaunched on 18 March 1972 as ''Music Week''. On 17 January 1981, the title again changed, owing to the increasing importance of sell-through videos, to ''Music & Video Week''. The rival '' Record Business'', founded in 1978 by Brian Mulligan and Norman Garrod, was absorbed into Music Week in February 1983. Later that year, the offshoot ''Video Week'' launched and the title of the parent publication reverted to ''Music Week''. Since April 1991, ''Music Week'' has incorporated ''Record Mirror'', initially as a 4 or 8-page chart supplement, later as a dance supplement of articles, reviews and charts. In the 1990s, several magazines and newsletters become part of the Music Week family: ''Music Business International (MBI)'', ''Promo'', ''MIRO Future Hits'', ''Tours Report'', ''Fono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
