I wrote a book recently, for Bloomsbury’s ‘33 1/ 3’ series, about Massive Attack’s 1991 debut, Blue Lines. Massive Attack, Mezzanine, 1998, record cover. Unlike earlier records, which relied heavily on samples and synthesizers, Mezzanine marked a foray into subtle instrumentation and lyrics evoking a claustrophobic urban miasma. The album opener, ‘Angel’, was used to harrowing effect in the film Snatch (2000) as itinerant boxer Mickey O’Neil’s (Brad Pitt) mother’s caravan was burned to the ground. It remains a shadowy noir built on meandering sitars, buzzsaw guitars, throbbing sub-bass and ethereal lyrics meant to create tension that builds like a fever. In the context of such sentimental fare, we are reminded, Mezzanine hit listeners like a ton of bricks. Simpler times, quainter times: these are all referenced in early frames of Massive Attack’s precision lighting and video programme – which Robert Del Naja made in close collaboration with British artist Adam Curtis – and in cheeky pre-show music that included anodyne gems such as Aerosmith’s ‘I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing’ (1998) and Chumbawamba’s ‘Tubthumping’ (1997). 1998 was the high-water mark of a frothy neoliberal fantasy that seemed within reach. Also: the president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, still caroused in the palaces of Baghdad US president Bill Clinton weathered impeachment and a young artist named Britney Spears released a song called ‘Baby One More Time’. New Labour and the guitar-strumming UK prime minister, Tony Blair, were riding high the Eurozone grew increasingly interlinked and millions logged on to a new-fangled service called AOL. Mezzanine was released in April of 1998, itself a year emblematic of an ebullient ’90s-era zeitgeist. Mezzanine XXI, as the tightly choreographed show was titled, marked the 21st anniversary of the eponymous record, which Massive Attack played in its entirety – albeit re-sequenced.
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Massive Attack BOOKING AGENTįor Massive Attack's agent’s contact information, our seasoned booking agents can speak on your behalf, in a friendly professional manner with Massive Attack's agent. They have released five studio albums that have sold over 11 million copies worldwide. The group has won numerous music awards throughout their career, including a Brit Award-winning Best British Dance Act, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and two Q Awards. The audio then compressed using Opus, coded in DNA molecules – with 920,000 short DNA strands containing all the data – and then poured into 5,000 tiny glass beads.
The project was in collaboration with TurboBeads Labs in Switzerland – the digital audio of the album was stored in the form of genetic information. On the 20th anniversary of Mezzanine’s release the record was encoded into synthetic DNA – a first for an album. Both Blue Lines and Mezzanine feature in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
1998's Mezzanine, containing "Teardrop", and 2003's 100th Window charted in the UK at number one. Their debut album Blue Lines was released in 1991, with the single "Unfinished Sympathy" reaching the charts and later being voted the 63rd greatest song of all time in a poll by NME. Massive Attack are a British musical group formed in 1988 in Bristol, United Kingdom, consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall and formerly Andy "Mushroom" Vowles ("Mush").
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