Massive Attack - No Protection (Vinyl LP) A vinyl record partially pulled from its illustrated album cover, shown on a plain light beige studio background. The cover art is highly colourful and chaotic, featuring a large screaming figure in a white and blue suit, with many smaller illustrated characters and objects.
Massive Attack - No Protection (Vinyl LP) Album cover art for 'Massive Attack v Mad Professor' No Protection featuring a highly detailed, colourful cartoon illustration of a chaotic battle scene with multiple characters, explosions, and city buildings in the background.

Massive Attack - No Protection (Vinyl LP)

$62.00 AUD
Electronic · Downtempo

180g Vinyl • Lacquer Cut at Abbey Road • Download Card

‘Radiation Ruling The Nation’ opens the record and takes its time. Over eight minutes the song breaks apart, a vocal line surfacing once before it dissolves into delay. The bass does the steering. ‘Bumper Ball Dub’ slows ‘Karmacoma’ to a stagger, snare cracks thrown wide into the echo. ‘Cool Monsoon’ keeps the piano and lets the room flood around it. Protection turned inside out, the songs reduced to pressure and space. ‘Backward Sucking’ closes the side in a long wash of reverb.

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Format, pressing and tracklist.

About the album.

No Protection is a 1995 dub album that takes Massive Attack’s trip hop landmark Protection and hands it to the British dub producer Mad Professor. Eight tracks from the parent album are reworked here under new titles, from the long opening dub of the title track through to ‘Backward Sucking’, his version of ‘Heat Miser’.

The project grew out of a single remix. After Mad Professor delivered that first mix, the band asked him to hear more of Protection with a view to going further, and the full album followed in early 1995 on Wild Bunch and Circa.

It works as a true dub record, with the bass pushed forward, vocals reduced to fragments and the mixing desk treated as an instrument. Mad Professor added drums and percussion alongside Nolan Irie, with extra keyboards from William The Conqueror.

This 2016 Virgin reissue presents the album as a single 180g LP, with lacquers cut at Abbey Road Studios and a download card for lossless WAV files of the album.

No Protection makes the most sense heard next to Protection itself, also reissued on vinyl in 2016, and it bridges the band’s early run from Blue Lines into the darker territory of Mezzanine.

Tracklist.

Side A

  1. Radiation Ruling The Nation (Protection)
  2. Bumper Ball Dub (Karmacoma)
  3. Trinity Dub (Three)
  4. Cool Monsoon (Weather Storm)

Side B

  1. Eternal Feedback (Sly)
  2. Moving Dub (Better Things)
  3. I Spy (Spying Glass)
  4. Backward Sucking (Heat Miser)
Pressing details.
Format
1LP
Sleeve

Standard sleeve

Vinyl colour

Black

Label
Virgin
Barcode

0602557009637

Catalogue number
5700963
Condition
Brand new (factory sealed)
Original release
1995
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