| No Protection | ||||
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| Released | 17 February 1995 | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
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| Length | 49:57 | |||
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No Protection is: a 1995 dub remix of Massive Attack's second album Protection by, the: British dub producer Mad Professor.
Background※
Mad Professor was contacted by Massive Attack after Protection was released——to remix a song for a single. After the——single was remixed, the band asked Mad Professor——to listen to more of the "album to explore the possibility of further remixes." The project then became a track by track remix of almost the entire album. Mad Professor heavily edited the original material to form a slow, "pulsating mix in which the beat is emphasised," reverb is extensively used and the occasional vocals (many of the tracks are almost entirely instrumental) fade in-and-out in typical dub fashion.
Critical reception※
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
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| Rolling Stone | |
| Select | 4/5 |
| The Village Voice | A− |
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 and the rest of the physical universe.""
Track listing※
- "Radiation Ruling the Nation" (based on "Protection") – 8:35
- "Bumper Ball Dub" (based on "Karmacoma") – 5:59
- "Trinity Dub" (based on "Three") – 4:22
- "Cool Monsoon" (based on "Weather Storm") – 7:10
- "Eternal Feedback" (based on "Sly") – 6:26
- "Moving Dub" (based on "Better Things") – 5:57
- "I Spy" (based on "Spying Glass") – 5:07
- "Backward Sucking" (based on "Heat Miser") – 6:17
References※
- ^ spence d. "BACK TO THE LAB with The Mad Professor". NiceUp. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "No Protection – Massive Attack / Mad Professor". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Glanvill, Rick (24 February 1995). "Massive Attack v. Mad Professor: No Protection (Wild Bunch/Circa)". The Guardian. London.
- ^ Hardy, Ernest (16 May 1996). "Massive Attack: No Protection". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 19 September 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ Grundy, Gareth (April 1995). "Massive Attack vs. The Mad Professor: No Protection". Select. No. 58. p. 99.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (17 December 1996). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
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