Burial & Massive Attack take you to paradise

In today’s blogworld of dime-a-dozen post-whatever UK beatmakers, where pitch-shifted vocal samples are dropped amongst skittery garage beats like it’s going out of style (fingers crossed) it can be easy to forget that much of this influence stems from Burial‘s 2007 masterpiece Untrue. A melancholic masterpiece, it’s an album of intricate rain-soaked beauty that still – more

Massive Attack never were your regular electronic pop act. Though they never seemed explicitely leftist, they pressed their point now and then – for example in 2007, when they joined the Hoping Foundation in support of Palestinian children. Times are rough these days, the #Occupy movement is facing the international financial institutions, and Massive Attack – more

Massive Attack have been keeping pretty active as of late, and now they’ve just released another bit of music via their Facebook in celebration of 11/11/11. The track is called ‘Vermona’, which is a type of German analog synthesizer in case you’re wondering. Made by 3D, who’s one half of Massive Attack, this hopefully means – more