Massive Attack will be known for their invention of a music

genre called Trip Hop. Trip Hop is electronic music, but not

a dance music.The bass patterns are too slow and the

instruments and vocals are too hard to swallow to even think

about dancing. It´s on the verge of being called ambient, but

it really isnt ambient. Band´s three main members no doubt

know how to make a great music. Those three members

are 3d (his voice is just what this music is all about :-),

Mushroom and Daddy G.

Massive´s album from 1994 Protection is truly awesome

and is worth the money even now. Back then, Massive

featured lots of guest artists. Some of them then made a

fine solo career themselves, for example awesome rapper

Tricky (who has one of the most spooky voices of all) or

famous singer Nicollette. Tricky was once a bands regular

member, but then (what a shame) went his own way and

stayed in the band only as a guest vocalist. Some of the

songs on Protection are Massive´s finest ever. One of those

surely is the cult song Karmacoma, with a great amount of

Rasta influence (but not as much as Spying glass :-). Other

great songs, like Protection, Eurochild, Better Things

or Sly make you want to listen to the album again and again.

And thats not all....there´s also space for a genuine instrumental

ballades Weather Storm and Heat Miser, with

great piano performance by Craig Armstrong. Every

Massive Attack album has its own feeling and Protection

is no exeption. This time the feeling is little more optimistic

than usual Massive Attack work, but that doesnt mean its

not as good than other albums. No. It sure is one of

their best work.