Listening to Mezzanine by Massive Attack. Thinking about whether not it is proto Dubstep
(probably not- too mainstream). Though i really like how it taps into the UK Bristol/ Brixton vein. When will my current perverse fascination with dubstep end? A genre that,
up until a few months ago, i completely despised as white intellectual take on electronic music without the balls, and replete with where's-the-weed-anxiety. Dubstep is typically UK, very dark. Now i feel that I am straying away from the subject, especially after having a gchat YT overload with Ed. I'm really fascinated with the progression of Garage-UK Garage-Dubstep-Grime-UK Funky.
But back to Massive Attack. I was listening to Mezzanine and thinking back to when it was released, and not getting it, but always being a little curious about it. However the guitars on it have this weird NIN vibe, which is really not good. I feel like i'm in the Matrix or Fight Club or something (also not good).
Inertia Creeps, however is pretty good, managing to date better than stuff at the time like Ian Brown (that time when the UK music scene was obsessed with Mercury Music Proze style fusion- Primal Scream collabing w/Asian Dub Foundation being a case in point)
So, NIN guitars aside, Mezzanine is suprisingly okay to listen to.
Though NO TRIP HOP RECONSIDERATION!
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