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.

  1. Euro Zero Zero
  2. Hell Is Round The Corner
  3. Eurochild
  4. Safe From Harm
  5. Protection (inc. Underdog’s Angel Dust mix & The Eno Instrumental & album version)
  6. Karmacoma (inc. Napoli Trip mix, and Tricky’s Overcome Rough Monitor mix)
  7. Black Milk
  8. Inertia Creeps
  9. Risingson (inc. Underdog mix)
  10. Five Man Army
  11. Lately
  12. Sly (inc. Dogapella and Underdog mixes)
  13. Group Four
  14. I Against I (feat. Mos Def)
  15. Daydreaming and Blacksmith/Daydreaming
  16. Angel
  17. Unfinished Sympathy
  18. Dissolved Girl
  19. Paradise Circus
  20. Heat Miser
  21. Teardrop
  22. Better Things
  23. Weather Storm
  24. Blue Lines
  25. Be Thankful For What You’ve Got
  26. Hymn Of The Big Wheel (inc. Nellee Hooper mix and album version)