Massive Attack V The Mad Professor No Protection

• 1. Protection (Radiation Ruling The Nation)
• 2. Karmacoma (Bumper Ball Dub)
• 3. Three (Trinity Dub)
• 4. Weather Storm (Cool Monsoon)
• 5. Unfinished Sympathy
• 6. Daydreaming
• 7. Lately
• 8. Hymn Of The Big Wheel

Given Massive Attack's upbringing, it was almost inevitable that they'd release a dub overhaul of one of their albums at one point. That time came in 1995, when British sound system legend Mad Professor - responsible for some of the greatest UK-made dub records of all time - put his distinctive twist on Protection. 21 years on, the set still sounds sublime: a radical translation that frequently bares only a passing resemblance to the Bristol band's original. It's packed with highlights, from the spaced-out, dub-house rework of "Spying Glass" ("I Spy"), to the ricocheting percussion hits and twinkling pianos of "Weather Storm (Cool Monsoon)", and creepy, delay-laden string surges of "Eternal Feedback (Sly)".