Massive Attack vs Mad Professor - No Protection

No Protection is an album of dub remixes with the majority of the samples coming from Massive Attack's mid 90s album "Protection". The masters were handed over to the much respected dub musician Mad Professor and he completely took apart the album and put it back together so that "Protection" was now a bass-loop filled piece of dub ambiance. With Massive Attack being widely described as trip-hop or hip-hop or whatever, this reconstruction showed just how much of the band's sound came from reggae as Mad Professor's transformation made all the subtleties that went in to "Protection" a fair bit more clear.

So besides the short course in musical technicality written above, is their any reason to listen to "No Protection"? Yes, absolutely. I'd hate for you to think that I'm pointing this out simply because it's a cold, hard interesting piece of musical innovation. Mad Professor has also created one of the finest chill out albums I've heard. Something to sit back on the beach to, close your eyes and just let this bass driven reverb soaked dub, completely relax you.

Massive Attack vs Mad Professor - Radiation Ruling The Nation (Protection)
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