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About this product
Product Identifiers
ProducerNellee Hooper
Record LabelVirgin
UPC0724383988327
eBay Product ID (ePID)20050136414
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
Era1990s
Run Time2937 Sec
Release Year1995
FormatCD
InstrumentDrums
FeaturesStudio Recording
GenreAlternative, Electronic
TypeAlbum
StyleTrip-Hop, Club/Dance, Electronica
ArtistMassive Attack
Release TitleProtection
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Guest ArtistHorace Andy, Tricky, Tracey Thorn
DistributionEMI Music Distribution
Number of Tracks10
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
GuitarChester Kamen
MixingNellee Hooper
ReviewsRanked #8 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records"., 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...this English dance-pop outfit...delivers brilliant body music that doesn't neglect the brain. Cool, sexy stuff, it smoothly fuses dub, club and soul, grounding its grace in sampled hip-hop beats...", Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", 8 - Excellent - "...Rolling pianos, soft handclaps and a quiet little bass noodle: odd and very grown-up, but cinematically sexy...", Ranked #13 in Nme's List of `The Top 50 Albums of 1994.', Ranked #93 in AP's list of the `Top 99 of '85-'95' - "...PROTECTION returns Massive to their reggae roots...Thundering bass echoes beneath percolating hip-hop beats and smooth soul grooves...Unlike that of increasingly cartoonish gangstas, Massive's might is no media pose...", "...well couched in the sound-system ethic....PROTECTION is a weird piece of work that fits right into the defining mantra of British dance music...A surreal forging of dub, hip hop, soul, and random bugged-out elements...", Satisfactory - "...the dark depressive flipside to Soul II Soul's sunny, self-determining optimism. The beats are even slower, the grooves more contemplative than propulsive, the arrangements... influenced by METAL BOX-era P.I.L....The songs rarely allow for emotional release...", Included on Neil Strauss' list of the Top 10 Albums of `95 - "...full of loops, echoes, ghostly voices and the conviction that space is as important as sound..."
Massive Attack was in my opinion way ahead of their time, Tricky was a really influential member I think. Martina Topley-Bird influence here as well I think. Highly recommended