Customer Reviews
Needs time. - By: Jim, 26 May 2008 
As with all music its a very strong matter of personal taste, if you like massive attack you won't neccesarily enjoy this. I love it, but it took me a year before I actually enjoyed it & now is one of my most played album. Great for zoning out & getting lost...
This is a journey into sound...... - By: , 18 Nov 2004 Fantastic, forget Protection, I think many people who buy this are expecting a remix of Unfinished Sympathy. It's not, it's dub, that's what it was meant to be & that's what it is. It does exactly what it says on the tin.
Dub originates from Jamaican producersin the 60s messing around with the instrumental track of popular reggae hits, often as B sides. The echo chamber often being the weapon of choice, this is what the Professor triumphs at & what he is best remembered for.
It drags youin & spits you out, envelopedin a gluey, sticky bass bubble, adhering you helpless to the sofa & unable to reach for the controls. What a way to go......
Quite quite mad, but endearingly so - By: Mr. M. J. Hulme, 07 Oct 2004 
This is less a remix album than a collection of new tracks loosely based around the original recordings which comprised the still-excellent Protection album. What Mad Professor does here is turn up the bass until your ribcage shakes, strips away some of the layers & concentrates on the hypnotic cycles of bass & drums & bass & drums and... it's unsettling, dark & at times dense, but rewarding. I don't know about the first cut being the deepest, but the first track here is the weakest. From thereon in, & just when you may start thinking "I've bought a lemon," the bass rumbles away & sweeps you off with it, & by the time you hit Cool Monsoon, you're awayin another dimension. Don't buy this if you want to hear "Protection" with a different drum pattern or arrangement. Buy it if you want to hear a totally different dub-heavy take on a classic album. It's a potent brew.
bobbins - By: , 27 Apr 2004 
Avoid like the plague. Massive Attack are amazing. This mix is not. Ibought this without listening to it before-hand on the assumption that anyMassive Attack remix would still be great. How wrong I was.
good but takes a few listens - By: i.n.n.reid@another.com, 09 Mar 2001 i've had this album for years, originally i never liked it & it gathered dust on my shelf but recently i rediscovered it & i think its fantastic. imagine my surprise then when watching High Fidelity & it gets quoted by John Cusac... whatever. anyway, i reccomend playing this very late at night, say 4in the morning when you have had to stay up all night to do lots of work. play it through big headphones & it will sound fantastic to your vulnerable brain. but it does take a few listens to when you first buy it...
