TAG: Tricky

Sep07

URB’s Best Fall Albums Preview

With Labor Day behind us, Summer is officially disappearing in the review mirror. But the best thing about fall isn’t the colors, it’s the great new music that the season brings to get us through the shorter days and colder nights until Christmas. Here’s the albums you should be certain to check every week. …MORE

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Aug16

Tricky “Murder Weapon” (Video) (Video)

The first taste of  trip-hop legend Tricky’s latest full-length, Mixed Race, is built around a Peter Gunn melody and mainly vocals by Franky Riley, which is only a little disappointing since we’ve grown so fond of Tricky’s own razors and phlegm vox. The ’60s flavor has long been a favored device of peers like Portishead, but this really marks the first time Tricky has diverted far from his own dark and dank sonic space.

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Feb19

Gui Boratto – Renaissance: The Mix Collection (Review)

Gui Boratto

Renaissance: The Mix Collection

Released by Renaissance


When one of electronic music’s most respected staples, Renaissance, and Brazilian DJ and producer Gui Boratto teamed up for the first time, the result can surely be compared to a spacey sound journey through an atmospheric rainforest. Boratto gets in the mix with this groovy third release for the Renaissance name, following the likes of M.A.N.D.Y, Dave Seaman and James Zabiella. For the mix, Boratto picked tracks by some of his favorite artists and producers of the moment—Tricky, Josh Wink, Martin Buttrich, Lusine, Christian Smith, Mathew Jonson, and Bomb the Base, to name a few—as well as his own material, including four never heard before productions. While one might get locked in from song two, which is a John Tejada remix of Boratto’s 2009 “Take My Breath Away,” almost every song is a trip of its own, including Tricky’s “Past Mistake” making for a surprisingly eerie, yet beautiful ending.

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Feb09

Massive Attack – Heligoland (Review)

Massive Attack

Heligoland

Released by EMI


The legendary music scene of Bristol has changed as rapidly as the seasons come and go, with new rhythms being formulated and concocted by bright minds that just seem to thrive off their climate. From past giants Roni Size to current producers like Appleblim, Joker and Gemmy, the scene has never shied away from providing the biggest talent. This can be stemmed back to the late '80s, when The Wild Bunch was formed, and onward to the '90s when the group splintered off to become the now-legendary and contextual trip-hop heroes that are Massive Attack. The group has been in a state of supposed creative limbo; since 2003's 100th Window they had not released a full-length studio album, and while 2006's Collected compilation had a few new and unreleased tracks, there was much more to be desired. After almost four years of constant rumors, guest artist lineups, and wondering what their return would sound like, Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall have returned with Heligoland, a record that will change the perception of the group's definitive "trip-hop" sound into something more abstract, stripped-down and soulful.

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