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 █▀║                         Massive Attack - Mezzanine                         ║▀█
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 █▀║                                                                            ║▀█
 █▀║  Artist: Massive Attack                                                    ║▀█
 █▀║  Album:  Mezzanine                                                         ║▀█
 █▀║                                                                            ║▀█
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 █▀║ :                                                                        : ║▀█
 █▀║   Ripper........: Caster                                                   ║▀█
 █▀║   Supplier......: Caster                                                   ║▀█
 █▀║   Genre.........: Trip-Hop                                                 ║▀█
 █▀║   Style.........: Trip-Hop                                                 ║▀█
 █▀║   Ripp.With.....: Exact Audio Copy                                         ║▀█
 █▀║   Encode.With...: Lame 3.93.1                                              ║▀█
 █▀║   Quality.......: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Full Stereo                          ║▀█
 █▀║   Company(Label): Circa Records / Virgin                                   ║▀█
 █▀║   CatalogNr.....: WBRCD4 / 45599                                           ║▀█
 █▀║   Url...........: www.massiveattack.co.uk                                  ║▀█
 █▀║   Date..........: 13.03.2003                                               ║▀█
 █▀║   StreetDate....: 27.04.1998                                               ║▀█
 █▀║   Type..........: Album                                                    ║▀█
 █▀║   Source........: CDDA                                                     ║▀█
 █▀║   Tracks........: 11                                                       ║▀█
 █▀║   Playtime......: 63:43 min                                                ║▀█
 █▀║   Size..........: 85,10 MB                                                 ║▀█
 █▀║                                                                            ║▀█
 █▀║ ┌═════════════════════════════[ ReleaseNotes ]═══════════════════════════┐ ║▀█
 █▀║ :                                                                        : ║▀█
 █▀║   By the time Massive Attack release their new killer album "100th         ║▀█
 █▀║   Window", we suggest it will bring them many of new fans, who would be    ║▀█
 █▀║   eventually looking also for the older albums. We take this oportunity    ║▀█
 █▀║   to bring you the previous album, Mezzanine, which sounds quite similar   ║▀█
 █▀║   to the new one, and in fact started this new Massive Attack's style.     ║▀█
 █▀║   Enjoy!                                                                   ║▀█
 █▀║                                                                            ║▀█
 █▀║   Artist Info:                                                             ║▀█
 █▀║                                                                            ║▀█
 █▀║   The pioneering force behind the rise of trip-hop, Massive Attack was     ║▀█
 █▀║   among the most innovative and influential groups of their generation;    ║▀█
 █▀║   their hypnotic sound - a darkly sensual and cinematic fusion of          ║▀█
 █▀║   hip-hop rhythms, soulful melodies, dub grooves, and choice samples -     ║▀█
 █▀║   set the pace for much of the dance music to emerge throughout the        ║▀█
 █▀║   1990s, paving the way for such acclaimed artists as Portishead,          ║▀█
 █▀║   Sneaker Pimps, Beth Orton, and Tricky, himself a Massive Attack          ║▀█
 █▀║   alumnus. Their history dates back to 1983 and the formation of the       ║▀█
 █▀║   Wild Bunch, one of the earliest and most successful sound system/DJ      ║▀█
 █▀║   collectives to arrive on the U.K. music scene; renowned for their        ║▀█
 █▀║   seamless integration of a wide range of musical styles from punk to      ║▀█
 █▀║   reggae to R&B, the group's parties quickly became can't-miss events      ║▀█
 █▀║   for the Bristol club crowd, and at the peak of their popularity they     ║▀█
 █▀║   drew crowds so enormous that the local live music scene essentially      ║▀█
 █▀║   ground to a halt.                                                        ║▀█
 █▀║   When the Wild Bunch folded during the mid-1980s, two of its members -    ║▀█
 █▀║   Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles and "Daddy G" Marshall - teamed with local      ║▀█
 █▀║   grafitti artist 3D (born Robert Del Naja) to form Massive Attack in      ║▀█
 █▀║   1987; another Wild Bunch alum, Nellee Hooper, split his time between     ║▀█
 █▀║   the new group and his other project, Soul II Soul. The group's first     ║▀█
 █▀║   single, "Daydreaming," appeared in 1990; it featured the sultry vocals   ║▀█
 █▀║   of singer Shara Nelson and raps by Tricky, another onetime Wild Bunch    ║▀█
 █▀║   collaborator. The classic "Unfinished Sympathy" followed, as did         ║▀█
 █▀║   another compelling effort, "Safe From Harm." Finally, in 1991 Massive    ║▀█
 █▀║   Attack issued their debut LP, Blue Lines; while by no means a huge       ║▀█
 █▀║   commercial success, the record was met with major critical praise, and   ║▀█
 █▀║   was dubbed an instant classic in many quarters. Nelson, featured on      ║▀█
 █▀║   many of the album's most memorable tracks, exited for a solo career      ║▀█
 █▀║   soon after, and the group then confusingly changed their name to         ║▀█
 █▀║   simply "Massive" to avoid any implication of approval for the U.N.'s     ║▀█
 █▀║   policy towards Iraq; in the wake of the disastrous U.S. tour that        ║▀█
 █▀║   followed, many were quick to write the band off right then and there.    ║▀█
 █▀║                                                                            ║▀█
 █▀║   After a three-year layoff, Massive Attack - their full name now          ║▀█
 █▀║   properly reinstated - resurfaced with Protection; again working with     ║▀█
 █▀║   Hooper and Tricky, they also brought into the fold vocalist Nicolette,   ║▀█
 █▀║   as well as Everything But the Girl's Tracey Thorn. Three singles -       ║▀█
 █▀║   "Karmacoma," "Sly," and the title track - were released from the LP,     ║▀█
 █▀║   which was also remixed in its entirety by the Mad Professor and issued   ║▀█
 █▀║   as No Protection. A lengthy tour followed, and over the next several     ║▀█
 █▀║   years, Massive Attack's solo work was primarily confined to remixes      ║▀█
 █▀║   for artists including Garbage; they also worked with Madonna on a        ║▀█
 █▀║   track for a Marvin Gaye tribute album. Finally, to promote their         ║▀█
 █▀║   appearance at the annual Glastonbury music festival, the group issued    ║▀█
 █▀║   a new EP, Risingson, during the summer of 1997. The third full-length    ║▀█
 █▀║   Massive Attack effort, Mezzanine, appeared in mid-1998; in addition to   ║▀█
 █▀║   reggae singer Horace Andy, making his third consecutive LP appearance    ║▀█
 █▀║   with the group, vocal chores were handled by the Cocteau Twins'          ║▀█
 █▀║   Elizabeth Fraser and newcomer Sara Jay. Mezzanine became a cult hit      ║▀█
 █▀║   among critics, clubs and the college crowds, spinning successful         ║▀█
 █▀║   singles such as "Teardrop" and "Inertia Creeps." A tour of America and   ║▀█
 █▀║   Europe followed, but Vowles left the band after disagreeing with the     ║▀█
 █▀║   artistic direction of Mezzanine. Del Naja and Marshall continued as a    ║▀█
 █▀║   duo, later working with the likes of David Bowie and the Dandy           ║▀█
 █▀║   Warhols, but Marshall later took a leave of absence to raise his         ║▀█
 █▀║   family; producer Neil Davidge took up the slcak. In February 2003,       ║▀█
 █▀║   after a five-year wait, Massive Attack released their fourth album,      ║▀█
 █▀║   100th Window, including collaborations with mainstay Horace Andy as      ║▀█
 █▀║   well as Sinéad O'Connor.                                                 ║▀█
 █▀║                                                                            ║▀█
 █▀║   - Jason Ankeny, www.allmusic.com                                         ║▀█
 █▀║                                                                            ║▀█
 █▀║   Album Info:                                                              ║▀█
 █▀║                                                                            ║▀█
 █▀║   Increasingly ignored amidst the exploding trip-hop scene, Massive        ║▀█
 █▀║   Attack finally returned in 1998 with Mezzanine, a record immediately     ║▀█
 █▀║   announcing not only that the group was back, but that they'd recorded    ║▀█
 █▀║   a set of songs just as singular and revelatory as on their debut,        ║▀█
 █▀║   almost a decade back. It all begins with a stunning one-two-three-four   ║▀█
 █▀║   punch: "Angel," "Risingson," "Teardrop," and "Inertia Creeps."           ║▀█
 █▀║   Augmenting their samples and keyboards with a studio band, Massive       ║▀█
 █▀║   Attack open with "Angel," a stark production featuring pointed beats     ║▀█
 █▀║   and a distorted bass line that frames the vocal (by group regular        ║▀█
 █▀║   Horace Andy) and a two-minute flame-out with raging guitars.             ║▀█
 █▀║   "Risingson" is 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. "Teardrop" introduces another genius collaboration   ║▀█
 █▀║   - with Elizabeth Fraser from Cocteau Twins - from a production unit      ║▀█
 █▀║   with a knack for recruiting gifted performers. The blend of earthy       ║▀█
 █▀║   with ethereal shouldn't work at all, but Massive Attack pull it off in   ║▀█
 █▀║   fine fashion. "Inertia Creeps" could well be the highlight, another      ║▀█
 █▀║   feature for just the core threesome. With eerie atmospherics,            ║▀█
 █▀║   fuzz-tone guitars, and a wealth of effects, the song could well be the   ║▀█
 █▀║   best production from the best team of producers the electronic world     ║▀█
 █▀║   had ever seen. Obviously, the rest of the album can't compete, but       ║▀█
 █▀║   there's certainly no sign of the side-two slump heard on Protection,     ║▀█
 █▀║   as both Andy and Fraser return for excellent, mid-tempo tracks ("Man     ║▀█
 █▀║   Next Door" and "Black Milk," respectively).                              ║▀█
 █▀║                                                                            ║▀█
 █▀║   - John Bush, www.allmusic.com                                            ║▀█
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 █▀║ ┌══════════════════════════════[ Tracklist ]═════════════════════════════┐ ║▀█
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 █▀║    01. Angel                                                     06:21     ║▀█
 █▀║    02. Risingson                                                 04:59     ║▀█
 █▀║    03. Teardrop                                                  05:31     ║▀█
 █▀║    04. Inertia Creeps                                            05:57     ║▀█
 █▀║    05. Exchange                                                  04:11     ║▀█
 █▀║    06. Dissolved Girl                                            06:07     ║▀█
 █▀║    07. Man Next Door                                             05:56     ║▀█
 █▀║    08. Black Milk                                                06:22     ║▀█
 █▀║    09. Mezzanine                                                 05:57     ║▀█
 █▀║    10. Group Four                                                08:12     ║▀█
 █▀║    11. (Exchange)                                                04:10     ║▀█
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 █▀║   appear in mp3 scene as PsyCZ release.                                    ║▀█
 █▀║                                                                            ║▀█
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 █▀║   and msg op.                                                              ║▀█
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01-massive_attack_-_angel-psycz_np-vbr.mp38,73 MB
02-massive_attack_-_risingson-psycz_np-vbr.mp36,77 MB
03-massive_attack_-_teardrop-psycz_np-vbr.mp37,62 MB
04-massive_attack_-_inertia_creeps-psycz_np-vbr.mp38,44 MB
05-massive_attack_-_exchange-psycz_np-vbr.mp35,38 MB
06-massive_attack_-_dissolved_girl-psycz_np-vbr.mp38,09 MB
07-massive_attack_-_man_next_door-psycz_np-vbr.mp38,16 MB
08-massive_attack_-_black_milk-psycz_np-vbr.mp38,10 MB
09-massive_attack_-_mezzanine-psycz_np-vbr.mp38,01 MB
10-massive_attack_-_group_four-psycz_np-vbr.mp311,15 MB
11-massive_attack_-_(exchange)-psycz_np-vbr.mp35,49 MB