Variously described as ‘trip-hop’, ‘drum & bass’ and simply ‘the Bristol sound’, the genesis of the entire phenomenon can be directly traced to recordings made in the late ’80s by the then Wild Bunch.īy the time their debut album Blue Lines hit the shelves in 1991, it was evident that something quite astonishing was afoot.ĭark, arresting, hypnotic grooves with an abnormally evocative, almost cinematic atmosphere had their roots in American hip-hop, but in their scale and ambition, were truly unlike anything anyone had heard before. In a very real sense, the Bristol collective can be credited with inventing a new musical language. But in Massive Attack’s case, they can all be deployed without any fear of exaggeration. Terms like ‘seminal’, ‘pioneering1 and ‘ground-breaking’ are often flung around far too liberally.
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