Monday 7 March 2011

Massive Attack vs Mad Professor (1995)



The Mad Professor does his thing on the "No
Protection" album and gives a radical kicking
to the original songs.

A much thicker and heavier sound is his starting
point with vocals reverbing like fuck, samples
flying around and a great - of course - bass heavy
end, trip-hop beats fading in and out.

This is real earphone candy as the stereo seperations
are abused and layers of sound effects bounce around.

I actually prefer this to the "proper" album.

4 comments:

  1. Sounds interesting. I'll give it a whirl!
    Have you seen that Chickenhawk have changed their name by the way?

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  2. I got a compilation a couple of days ago with their new name on but it was a track from the 1st album and thought it was their old name!

    Any idea why?

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  3. They can't get the rights or any domain names they want. Something about the book Chickenhawk...

    Hawk Eyes is a rubbish name in comparison. Very let down.

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  4. That makes sense - pretty famous book + an expression used quite a lot in the states.

    So they are after a name with no domain rights - Hawk Eyes ..... just like the character from the film & tv series "Mash" or very much like a Marvel comics identity .......... good luck with that!

    Free of charge they can use "Mandarin Grin" or "Scopieau"

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