Hearing Massive Attack’s Blue Lines when it came out was a total game changer for me. Soulful, but uber-cool with those cool hip hop breaks.
This mix is my 60 minute voyage through Massive Attack’s albums. I used AI-powered stem separation to isolate the original studio elements (vocal, bass, drums, etc) and reconstructed the tracks in new ways to show what powered the Bristol Sound, and to make it hit harder in 2026. Everything you hear is from a Massive Attack track or remix (with the single exception of Tricky’s Hell Is Round The Corner which uses the lyrics he used in Eurochild).
Hit up the mix on hearthis.at/beatsatlas/massive-attack/, and if you’d like to download a copy for offline listens, you just need to give it a share/repost first.
The tracklist favours the earlier albums (as I do also) but there’s something from every LP.
- Euro Zero Zero
- Hell Is Round The Corner
- Eurochild
- Safe From Harm
- Protection (inc. Underdog’s Angel Dust mix & The Eno Instrumental & album version)
- Karmacoma (inc. Napoli Trip mix, and Tricky’s Overcome Rough Monitor mix)
- Black Milk
- Inertia Creeps
- Risingson (inc. Underdog mix)
- Five Man Army
- Lately
- Sly (inc. Dogapella and Underdog mixes)
- Group Four
- I Against I (feat. Mos Def)
- Daydreaming and Blacksmith/Daydreaming
- Angel
- Unfinished Sympathy
- Dissolved Girl
- Paradise Circus
- Heat Miser
- Teardrop
- Better Things
- Weather Storm
- Blue Lines
- Be Thankful For What You’ve Got
- Hymn Of The Big Wheel (inc. Nellee Hooper mix and album version)
