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58-642: The Bristol underground scene is a cultural movement in Bristol , England , beginning in the early 1980s. The scene was born out of a lack of mainstream clubs catering for the emergence of hip hop music , with street and underground parties a mainstay. Many DJ crews formed in the early '80s playing hip hop, house and soul in disused venues with sound systems were borrowed from the reggae scene : City Rockers, 2 Bad, 2 Tuff, KC Rock, UD4, FBI, Dirty Den, Juice Crew, Rene & Bacus, Soul Twins, Fresh 4 and Bristol ultimate DJ Masters The Wild Bunch . These names were

116-415: A duo than a solo project . The Face published an article claiming that vocalist Martina Topley-Bird had to single-handedly bring up the child that Tricky had fathered. Tricky has also been concerned with racial stereotyping by the media. In the documentary Naked & Famous , he stated that photographers wanted him to frown angrily in photos. He points to a cover of The Big Issue , where he has

174-434: A close friendship, with Kowalczyk contributing vocals to "Evolution Revolution Love", a track on Tricky's album Blowback . Tricky has also acted in various films. He appeared in a significant supporting role in the 1997 Luc Besson film The Fifth Element , playing the right-hand man "Right Arm" to evil businessman Mr. Zorg. He also appears briefly in the 2004 Olivier Assayas film Clean , playing himself, and had

232-525: A contract with Island Records , and he started to record his first solo album, Maxinquaye . Tricky left Massive Attack to release his debut album, Maxinquaye , co-produced by himself and Mark Saunders and prominently featuring singer Martina Topley-Bird. The album was successful, and Tricky consequently attained international fame, something he was notably uncomfortable with. The Maxinquaye album review by Rolling Stone read: "Tricky devoured everything from American hip-hop and soul to reggae and

290-470: A darkness that is uplifting, a joyful melancholy". As a whole, the Bristol sound was characterised by a slow, spaced-out hip hop sound that a number of artists in the early and mid-1990s made synonymous with the city. These artists include Massive Attack , Portishead and Tricky and others such as Way Out West , Smith & Mighty , Up, Bustle and Out , Monk & Canatella , Kosheen , Roni Size , and

348-584: A date range. Thus use of the term "period" is somewhat deceptive. "Period" also suggests a linearity of development, whereas it has not been uncommon for two or more distinctive cultural approaches to be active at the same time. Historians will be able to find distinctive traces of a cultural movement before its accepted beginning, and there will always be new creations in old forms. So it can be more useful to think in terms of broad "movements" that have rough beginnings and endings. Yet for historical perspective, some rough date ranges will be provided for each to indicate

406-623: A defiant, subversive streak in Bristol, and Banksy's work is very much in that tradition." Chemam, Melissa (2019), Massive Attack: Out of the Comfort Zone , Tangent Books, ISBN   1910089729 , ISBN   978-1910089729 Cultural movement Historically, different nations or regions of the world have gone through their own independent sequence of movements in culture ; but as world communications have accelerated, this geographical distinction has become less distinct. When cultural movements go through revolutions from one to

464-487: A heavy student and post-graduate membership. Urban radio projects such as the 1980s pirate, Savage Yet Tender, and Electro Magnetic Installation, were more short-lived. Dialect Radio, Bristol's first community internet radio station, is still going and is broadcast over BCFM 93.2fm most weeks, and is available to download over the internet. It is put together by the Bristol Radio Co-op, is run by volunteers on

522-533: A large role in the music video for "Parabol/Parabola" by Tool . He was also rumoured to have a brief cameo in John Woo 's 1997 movie Face/Off , but has denied that this was the case, although his single "Christiansands" was featured in the movie. Tricky also appeared as Finn, a musician who loves and then dumps main character Lynn, in the US sitcom, Girlfriends . In 2001, Tricky appeared in online advertising for

580-430: A lot to do with my upbringing....Staying somewhere for three years then going off for three years. My uncles being villains. All that stuff. I've got quite a dysfunctional family....for some reason, in my family, the mothers always give the kids to the grandmothers". Tricky has fourteen paternal siblings. He was in a brief relationship with Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk in the 1990s. When asked in mid-2013 about

638-549: A member of the Fresh ;4, a rap group built from the Wild Bunch. He also rapped on Massive Attack's acclaimed debut album, Blue Lines (1991). In 1991, before the release of Blue Lines , he met Martina Topley-Bird in Bristol. Some time later, she came to his house and mentioned to Tricky and Mark Stewart that she could sing. Martina was only 15 years old, but her "honey-coated vox" impressed them, and they recorded

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696-456: A milder look on his face, as being more representative of how he feels. In the song "Tricky Kid" from Pre-Millennium Tension , he wrote: "As long as you're humble/Let you be the king of jungle ". Throughout his work, he blurs the normally clear gender definitions found in hip-hop. Despite the heavy influence he drew from American hip-hop in his debut album, Maxinquaye , he fights against typical gender representations by, for example, dressing as

754-453: A new album under the artist name 'Lonely Guest'. The self-titled album featured collaborations with Lee "Scratch" Perry , Idles ' frontman Joe Talbot and Maxïmo Park's Paul Smith . It featured songs with previous album vocalists Marta and Oh Land. Tricky has guest-starred on a number of albums, including an appearance on Live 's fifth studio album, V . This appearance came as Tricky and Live's lead singer Ed Kowalczyk had developed

812-528: A not-for-profit basis, and covers local arts, music, political issues, and local people of interest. An article in 2008 in The Telegraph stated that: "Racial matters have always carried a historical resonance in Bristol, a city made affluent on the profits of tobacco and slave-trading. Street names such as Blackboy Hill and Whiteladies Road remain as reminders." However, common knowledge that both Whiteladies Road and Blackboy Hill had connections with

870-535: A number of lyrics begun for the Massive Attack album Protection and gave the band some of the lyrics he had written for Maxinquaye instead. So, there's significant overlap in the lyrics of songs on the two albums—specifically with "Overcome" on Maxinquaye and "Karmacoma" on Protection ; and "Hell is 'Round the Corner" on Maxinquaye and "Eurochild" on Protection. Tricky found it difficult to cope with

928-577: A polish singer he has worked with since 2017. In April of 2023 The German electro pop duo Berlin Banter released the singel I'll Wait featuring Tricky. By the time Pre-Millennium Tension was released in 1996, Tricky was increasingly irritated with the British press, particularly articles written in The Face magazine. The Face had been an early champion of Maxinquaye , but saw Tricky as more

986-429: A positive movement where you find intellectuals mixing with the working class, rock mixing with reggae and indie mixing with emo." The Dirty, The Gospel, Laid Blak Mexican band My Black Heart Machine were acts that were signed to the label, but as of October 2013, the label appears to be inactive. In March 2023, the album When It's Going Wrong was released on False Idols. It is a collaboration between Tricky and Marta;

1044-408: A song called "Aftermath" (although The Face '95 mentions that the first song they recorded together was called "Shoebox"). Tricky showed "Aftermath" to Massive Attack, but they were not interested. So, in 1993, he decided to press a few hundred vinyl copies of the song. He cut directly off the tape, so that the song is basically "just bassline and hiss" ( NME 1994). In 1995, a white label got him

1102-428: A time of social conflict. In the early 1980s, hip hop culture made its way to Bristol and graffiti artists like Robert Del Naja and Banksy began making graffiti art. In music, the Wild Bunch sound system began playing hip hop, reggae, funk and rhythm and blues tracks but with added ambient effects, leading to the development of trip hop music. By definition the underground scene tends to be slightly apart from

1160-430: A woman on the side sleeve of his album cover . As many of his tracks blend elements of varying types of music creating a difficult-to-define sound, so do his lyrics, creating a more ambiguous and blurry take on gender and sexuality. Tricky has stated that he has "been through a lot... I've been moved around from family to family, never stayed in one house from when I was born to the age of 16. ...I'm not normal. It's got

1218-422: Is a British record producer and rapper . Born and raised in Bristol , in southwest England, he began his career as an early member of the band Massive Attack , alongside Robert Del Naja , Grant Marshall & Andrew Vowles . Through his work with Massive Attack and other artists, Tricky became a major figure in the Bristol underground scene , which gave rise to multiple internationally recognized artists and

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1276-471: Is continual argument over the precise definition of each of these periods as one historian might group them differently, or choose different names or descriptions. Even though in many cases the popular change from one to the next can be swift and sudden, the beginning and end of movements are somewhat subjective. This is because the movements did not spring out of the blue and into existence then come to an abrupt end and lose total support, as would be suggested by

1334-674: The Thirteen Ghosts soundtrack with the song "Excess" which (briefly) features Alanis Morissette during two of the choruses. In 2002, that song also appeared on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack. Tricky's studio album Knowle West Boy was released in the UK and Ireland in July 2008, and September 2008 in the US. The first single from the album was "Council Estate" and features the artist as

1392-801: The "height" or accepted time span of the movement. This list covers Western, notably European and American cultural movements. They have, however, been paralleled by cultural movements in East Asia and elsewhere. In the late 20th and early 21st century in Thailand , for example, there has been a cultural shift away from Western social and political values and more toward Japanese and Chinese . As well, Thai culture has reinvigorated monarchical concepts to accommodate state shifts away from Western ideology regarding democracy and monarchies. Tricky (musician) Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (born 27 January 1968), better known by his stage name Tricky ,

1450-623: The High and Mighty", spawned a radical independent political party that polled 15% in Easton ward in 2003. In October 2005 it came runner up for the national Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism. The anarchist-oriented Bristle , "fighting talk for Bristol and the South-West", was started in 1997 and had its twentieth issue in 2005. Its pages especially feature subvertising and other urban street art to complement news, views and comments on

1508-522: The Wild Bunch . Many graffiti artists came out of Bristol, including Banksy, an anonymous, English graffiti artist who designed album covers for bands like Blur and Monk & Canatella . Banksy has produced art work in Barcelona, New York City, Australia, London, San Francisco and the West Bank . He uses his original street art form to promote alternative aspects of politics from those displayed by

1566-461: The audience to come up on stage. The review of the concert in Manchester said it was "shambolic" and a "car crash" with Tricky often leaving the stage and continuously forgetting his words, leaving Topley Bird to carry the delivery of the tracks, resulting in many leaving early after repeated issues with Tricky's behaviour and shouts of "wanker" from the crowd. In February 2013, Tricky announced

1624-422: The band Massive Attack , Robert Del Naja , originally a graffiti artist, and local graffiti artist Banksy have gone on to produce album covers and artworks. Inkie , collaborator alongside Banksy, also took part in Bristol's counter-culture scene. The music scene in Bristol in the 1970s and '80s was influenced by Caribbean immigrants, as well as the growing UK punk movement of the time. The city of Bristol

1682-477: The band Massive Attack was initially a graffiti artist, "indeed, his first ever live gig was as a DJ accompanying artwork he had produced in a gallery in Bristol". Bristol also has a tradition of print media, now best exemplified by The Bristolian and Bristle magazine. Anarchist Ian Bone 's The Bristolian news sheet achieved a regular distribution of several thousand, with its satirical exposés of council and corporate corruption. The Bristolian , "Smiter of

1740-450: The band and he revealed in a June 2013 interview that "there's a couple of songs which are OK, which are really good actually to be honest with you". However, Tricky also stated in June 2013 that he could not spend more than two or three days with Massive Attack and described band member Daddy G as "very arrogant". Tricky's ninth album Mixed Race was released on 27 September 2010 and

1798-416: The first single from the album became available on 23 August. The album includes contributions from Franky Riley, Terry Lynn, Bobby Gillespie , Hamadouche, Blackman and Tricky's youngest brother Marlon Thaws. In June 2011, Tricky's then label Brownpunk signed on Mexican band My Black Heart Machine for one single, "It Beats Like This", which Tricky co-produced. My Black Heart Machine was then commissioned by

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1856-464: The first time in two decades while continuing his solo career. Tricky is a pioneer of trip hop music, and his work is noted for its dark, layered musical style that blends disparate cultural influences and genres, including hip hop , alternative rock , and ragga . He has collaborated with a wide range of artists over the course of his career, including Terry Hall , Björk , Gravediggaz , Alanis Morissette , Grace Jones and PJ Harvey . Tricky

1914-564: The huge success of Maxinquaye and subsequently eschewed the laidback soul sound of the first album to create an increasingly edgy and aggressive punk style of music. In 1996, Neneh Cherry and Björk appeared as guests on his second album Nearly God . The opening number was a cover of the Siouxsie and the Banshees pre-trip-hop song " Tattoo " that had previously inspired Tricky when he forged his style. In 2001, Tricky appeared on

1972-654: The independent music company headquartered in Berlin, where Tricky now lives. The book is currently untitled and will sell as a £20 Hardback in October 2019. His EP 20,20 was released on 6 March 2020. It featured the song Lonely Dancer recorded with the female singer Anika . She had previously worked with Beak in 2010. Tricky's next album, Fall to Pieces, was released in September 2020. The album featured singers Marta and Oh Land . In October 2021, Tricky released

2030-546: The label to cover a song from Maxinquaye for an album of covers by Brownpunk's roster; the band chose "Hell Is Round the Corner". "It Beats Like This" was released independently by the band on their first EP in April 2013. Tricky produced rapper Omni's album IamOmni (produced by Tricky) (released under the moniker IamOmni ) that was available from 30 August 2011 as a free download on Omni's official site. On 26 June 2011, Tricky appeared on stage during Beyoncé's headline slot on

2088-474: The late 1980s and early 1990s. The city has been particularly associated with the music genre trip hop . Salon magazine has said that trip hop was spawned in "the bohemian, multi-ethnic city of Bristol, where restlessly inventive DJs had spent years assembling samples of various sounds that were floating around: groove-heavy acid jazz , dub , neo-psychedelia , techno disco music, and the brainy art rap ". The Bristol sound has been described as "possessing

2146-456: The latter of which he co-headlines with contemporaries Morcheeba . Tricky announced a new album titled Adrian Thaws in June 2014. It was released on 8 September 2014. Skilled Mechanics was released in January 2016. The same month was released a song Tricky had written with 3D from Massive Attack, on the band's EP Ritual Spirit. His thirteenth official studio album, ununiform ,

2204-423: The local activist scene as well as tackling issues such as drugs, mental health and housing. The 1970s women's liberation paper Enough was succeeded in the 1990s by the environmental and pagan Greenleaf (edited by George Firsoff), West Country Activist , Kebelian Voice , Planet Easton , the anarcho-feminist Bellow and the present-day punk fanzine Everlong , all of which have been published in Bristol. Move

2262-421: The mainstream media. Some believe that his graffiti helps to provide a voice for those living in urban environments that could not otherwise express themselves, and that his work is also something which improves the aesthetic quality of urban surroundings. Others disagree, asserting that his work is simply vandalism. There has long been an interplay between the different music and art scenes in Bristol. Del Naja of

2320-523: The mainstream, and this is reflected in the politics of some of the artists and musicians associated with it. Robert Del Naja and others openly declared their opposition to the Iraq War , for example. Del Naja and Banksy have both submitted art works to the War Paint exhibition which showcases anti-war art work. The Bristol sound was the name given to a number of bands and producers from Bristol, in

2378-499: The media reported that Massive Attack met Tricky in Paris and asked him to work on a future project—Daddy G said: "Things seem like they've healed between us and Tricky. It's been quite well documented how us and Tricky get on, hasn't it? It's not that well, but things have changed. Things have softened up. We saw Tricky a couple of weeks ago in Paris and it was quite an amicable meeting after five or six years." Tricky agreed to record with

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2436-688: The more melancholic strains of '80s British rock". Authors David Hesmondhalgh and Caspar Melville wrote in the book Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA : "Tricky showed his debt to hip-hop aesthetics by reconstructualising samples and slices of both the most respected black music ( Public Enemy ) and the tackiest pop (quoting David Cassidy 's "How Can I Be Sure?")." As the Rolling Stone article further explained, Tricky created "a mercurial style of dance music that immediately finds it [ sic ] own fast feet." Tricky failed to complete

2494-692: The most popular sound system in Bristol at the time." Tricky experienced a difficult childhood in Knowle West, an economically deprived area in Southern Bristol. He became involved in crime at an early age, joining a gang that was involved in car theft, burglary, fights, and promiscuity. Tricky spent his youth in the care of his grandmother, who often let him watch old horror films, instead of going to school. At 15, he began to write lyrics ("I like to rock, I like to dance, I like pretty girls taking down their pants", MixMag , 1996). But when he

2552-552: The music genre of trip hop . Tricky embarked on a solo career with his debut album, Maxinquaye , in 1995. The release won Tricky popular acclaim and marked the beginning of a lengthy collaborative partnership with vocalist Martina Topley-Bird . He released four more studio albums before the end of the decade, including Pre-Millennium Tension and the pseudonymous Nearly God , both in 1996. He has gone on to release nine studio albums since 2000, most recently Fall to Pieces (2020). In 2016, he joined Massive Attack on stage for

2610-491: The next, genres tend to get attacked and mixed up, and often new genres are generated and old ones fade.: These changes are often reactions against the prior cultural form, which typically has grown stale and repetitive. An obsession emerges among the mainstream with the new movement, and the old one falls into neglect – sometimes it dies out entirely, but often it chugs along favored in a few disciplines and occasionally making reappearances (sometimes prefixed with "neo-"). There

2668-484: The precursors to the more well known ones that came from this scene. It is characterized by musicians and graffiti artists. The scene was influenced by the city's multiculturalism , political activism , and the art movements of reggae , punk , hip hop, hippies and new age . Bristol has been particularly associated with the trip hop music genre. The Bristol scene has a strong relationship between music and visual art, particularly graffiti art. A founding member of

2726-620: The pyramid stage at Glastonbury for the track " Baby Boy ". Partly the result of technical difficulties with his microphone, he later stated he was "mortified" by his own performance, saying, "I've never been so embarrassed. My body just froze". In April 2012, Tricky performed Maxinquaye with Martina Topley-Bird at several concerts around the UK including, for the first time in several years in his home town of Bristol. The concerts featured regular interruptions orchestrated by Tricky, where he brought his youngest brother, Marlon Thaws to rap on stage alongside other local rappers as well as encouraging

2784-698: The release of a new album, False Idols . The album is the follow-up from his 2010 Mixed Race and featured Peter Silberman , Fifi Rong and Nneka . Tricky released this statement about the album: In spring 2014, it was announced that Tricky is to perform at a number of festivals throughout Europe over the summer of 2014, including Control Day Out in Romania, festival Couleur Café in Belgium, Positivus Festival in Latvia and Galtres Parklands Festival in England,

2842-417: The slave trade is untrue; both names are derived from pubs. "It's a past that we feel equivocal about", says Steve Wright. "It's a double-edged thing. There are the beautiful Georgian terraces that we love, but they were built on the profits of slavery. It's our shady past, and Bristolians are a bit self-effacing, a bit ashamed of it and are quite keen to layer new associations on top of it. There's always been

2900-411: The sole vocalist: "It's the first single I've ever done with just me on vocals. I couldn't whisper that song. I had to come out of myself and do a loud, screaming vocal. I wanted to be a proper frontman on that one." In an interview with The Skinny in July 2008, Tricky mentioned that Knowle West Boy was the first album for which he decided to enlist a co-producer. Ex- Suede guitarist Bernard Butler

2958-488: The time the pair spent together, Tricky stated: "I wasn't good for Björk. I wasn't healthy for her. I feel she was really good to me, she gave me a lot of love and she really was a good person to me. I think she cared about me, right?" He was also briefly married to Carmen Ejogo in early 1998 in Las Vegas . Tricky fathered a daughter, Mina Mazy, on 19 March 1995 with Martina Topley-Bird, a musician he discovered when she

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3016-473: The web series We Deliver , about a cannabis delivery service in New York City. Though he did not appear in any episodes, in the advertising it appears as if he is a customer of the service. The launch of a record label named Brown Punk was announced in mid-2007 that was a collaboration between Tricky and former Island Records executive Chris Blackwell. At the time, Tricky said: "Brown Punk represents

3074-414: Was 17, he spent some time in prison after purchasing forged £ 50 notes from a friend, who later informed the police. Tricky stated in an interview afterward, "Prison was really good. I'm never going back." In the mid-1980s, Tricky met DJ Milo and spent time with a sound system called the Wild Bunch , which, by 1987, evolved into Massive Attack. He received the nickname "Tricky Kid," and, at age 18, became

3132-426: Was Tricky's initial selection, but, less than enamoured with Butler's technical prowess, Tricky finished the album by totally re-recording all of the material. On 8 December 2009, Tricky's 1995 debut album Maxinquaye was reissued with a bonus 13-track CD featuring B-sides , outtakes and seven previously unreleased mixes of songs such as "Overcome", "Hell is Round the Corner" and "Black Steel". In December 2009,

3190-473: Was another Women's Liberation magazine; published by the Gay Women's Group, it continued for a number of years in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It had an international circulation, only selling about a quarter in Bristol throughout its existence. Bristol based magazines, Trap , and Crack have emerged from the bass music scene, alternative fashion scenes and alternative art scenes, all of which feature

3248-537: Was beginning to form a sound system culture in the late 1970s, with regular impoundings of music equipment by police. Due to rising social tensions in the city, the 1980 St. Pauls riot occurred, after a police raid of the Black and White Café . After the riots, the police no longer confiscated music equipment. Music fans began looking towards reggae bands like the Black Roots because of their messages of pacifism in

3306-651: Was born Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws on 27 January 1968 in Knowle West , Bristol , to a Jamaican father and a mixed-race Anglo - Guyanese mother. His mother, Maxine Quaye, died either by suicide or due to epilepsy complications when Tricky was four. His father, Roy Thaws, operated the Studio 17 sound system (formerly known as "Tarzan the High Priest") with his brother Rupert and his own father, Hector. Bristol musician Bunny Marrett claimed in 2012, "It became

3364-488: Was released on 22 September 2017, and featured collaborations with Asia Argento , Avalon Lurks, and Martina Topley-Bird, as well as a cover of Hole 's " Doll Parts ". Polish singer Marta Złakowska joined Tricky's band on a 2017 tour as a guest singer. She stepped in at the last minute when the originally planned singer dropped out. Blink, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired Tricky's autobiography. Commissioning Editor Kerri Sharp acquired World rights from K7 Music –

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