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"Karmacoma" is a song by British trip hop collective Massive Attack, released as the third and final single from their second album, Protection, on 20 March 1995. It contains rap vocals from band members 3D and Tricky. Tricky also recorded his own version of "Karmacoma", renamed "Overcome" for his debut studio album, Maxinquaye.
Like most of Massive Attack's albums, the music often defies categorisation, ranging from R&B (title track and "Sly") to hip hop/rap ("Karmacoma" and "Eurochild") to reggae-tinged synth-pop ("Spying Glass") to classical-influenced electronica instrumentals ("Weather Storm" and "Heat Miser").
Singles 90/98 is a limited edition 11 disc compilation album by Massive Attack, released in 1998. It features all their vinyl and CD singles collected until 1998 with B-sides and remixes totalling 63 tracks. [2] It peaked at number 18 on the UK R&B Albums Chart. [3] The box set is designed by Tom Hingston and Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja. [4]
Tricky failed to complete a number of lyrics begun for the Massive Attack album Protection and gave the band some of the lyrics he had written for Maxinquaye instead. So, there's significant overlap in the lyrics of songs on the two albums—specifically with "Overcome" on Maxinquaye and "Karmacoma" on Protection ; and "Hell is 'Round the ...
Massive Attack had been looking to move away from the "Motown reggae" of their first album. Thorn received a backing track on cassette in the latter half of 1993—without title, melody or lyrics or "any indication as to where those things might go". Taken aback by the comparatively "slow and empty" sound, Thorn recognised that "a whole new ...
Maxinquaye is the debut album by English rapper and producer Tricky, released on 20 February 1995 by 4th & B'way Records, a subsidiary of Island Records.In the years leading up to the album, Tricky had grown frustrated with his limited role in the musical group Massive Attack and wanted to pursue an independent project.
According to music journalist Robert Christgau, No Protection was the most ballyhooed album during dub music's revival in the mid-1990s and In his review for The Village Voice, he found the music well defined and textured: "It also sustains a convincing gravity—a sense that all these whooshings and clangings and suckings and scrapings and boomings and snatches of tune relate to each other ...
Collected is a compilation album by British trip hop collective Massive Attack, released on 27 March 2006. The album was preceded by the release of the single "Live with Me" on 13 March. It collects most of the band's singles up until this point.