MASSIVE ATTACK

As the genesis point of the trip-hop movement, Massive Attack originated the genre’s hypnotic sound: a darkly sensual and cinematic fusion of hip-hop rhythms, soulful melodies, dub grooves, and choice samples. The group created some of the most influential and trend-setting sounds of their era, with the groundbreaking albums Protection (1994) and Mezzanine (1998) informing decades’ worth of acclaimed artists including Portishead, Beth Orton, Radiohead, TV on the Radio and Tricky, a Massive Attack alumnus.

Massive Attack’s roots date back to 1983 and the formation of the Wild Bunch, one of the most successful sound system/DJ collectives to arrive on the early-’80s U.K. music scene. Renowned for their seamless integration of a wide range of musical styles, from punk to reggae to R&B, the group’s parties quickly became can’t-miss events for the Bristol club crowd, and at the peak of their popularity they drew enormous crowds with their shape-shifting sets. When the Wild Bunch folded during the mid-’80s, Andrew ‘Mushroom’ Vowles, Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall and 3D (Robert Del Naja) formed Massive Attack as a production team in 1988. With true classic singles like ‘Teardrop’ and ‘Inertia Creeps’ under their belt, over 40 years later the band continues to captivate audiences through sound and video. We’re ready for a once-in-a-lifetime audiovisual experience at their only show in Spain in 2025 as part of the Mallorca Live Festival lineup. On what we can expect to see in Mallorca, the band explains, “Our new live show marks the most transgressive leap in the collaboration between 3D x United Visual Artists since 2003. By reverse engineering algorithms to expose content anomalies & recursive feedback loops, we seek to provoke a dialogue on the broken dream of the confident, empowered individual ‘self’, in the context of the global collapse of liberal democracies”.