#Adrian Thaws

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that time Tricky was featured in a blockbuster

THE FIFTH ELEMENT [1997, dir. LUC BESSON]

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British record producer, former member of Massive Attack and The Wild Bunch as well as being a Trip hop musician. Here's Tricky aka Tricky Kid and Tricky Rock (real name: Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws or just Adrian Thaws) in The Fifth Element, Ghost in the Shell and Tool's "Parabola" music video.

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Massive Attack

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Tricky

Adrian Thaws (2014)

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Tricky performing in Barcelona in 2015. Photograph: Xavi Torrent/Redferns/Getty Images

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» suffocated love

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    This is 'being in limbo'. Wanting, desiring, silencing, exploding and paying. Reflect, powerless. Imagine. That's what matters.

   Questo è 'essere nel limbo'. Volere desiderare zittire, esplodere e pagare. Riflettere, impotenti. Immaginare. È ciò che importa.

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This audiovisual hits just right

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cant even say

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Massive Attack remain one of the best outfits in the genre they popularized thanks to them not following the rules of the idiom that much despite being a prime example of that. Makes no sense, correct? The same thing could be said about Ritual Spirit, one of their latest releases. The EP found them making a comeback with Tricky who was one of their early members. They needed him, since they sound highly rejuvenated on the disc, i.e. they resemble themselves at their best again with all their peculiarities. Still, they don't do a facsimile of their pasts, they use the latter to find the pathways towards the future. They're in the elder statesmen mode, mind you, but they don't find themselves clamoring for the days of their youth, they let their mature selves influence their decisions.

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TRICKY // PUMPKIN (REINCARNATED) VOCALS: ALISON GOLDFRAPP (of GOLDFRAPP) [MAXINQUAYE: REINCARNATED, SEPT 2023]

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Dear listener, when I’m not posting music so underground that it’s wedged to the Earth’s lower mantle, I’m generally trying to remind you of great acts you’ve forgotten or have never heard of before. Decidedly on the latter for this post, I would like to point out no ‘music blog’ should be without at least one jam by Massive Attack. I don’t really need to sing this band’s praises, their accolades and accomplishments in the music industry are well known. But for the uninitiated, I don’t think that I can recommend an act that, past or present, manages to produce a more hypnotic or enigmatically sensory experience with electronic music. They were trend-setters all the way through the mid to late 90’s with their music simultaneously hitting it BIG at dance clubs, college campuses and the public at large all over Europe and the United States. If you happen to enjoy hip hop, post-punk, industrial, psychedelic, dub and/or dance… Massive Attack is your one-stop shop for ALL of the above. They’re also industry pioneers, having virtually invented trip-hop which was at the time dubbed ‘The Bristol Sound’, as their first album, Blue Lines, is widely considered to be the first trip-hop album made and it was recorded (at least partially) in Bristol, England. They're known for regularly including extra instrumentalists for live performances and became recognized for their collaborations with the likes of Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser, and the immortal Sinéad O'Connor when they needed a talented lady vocalist to enhance their instrumentals. The one and only piece of work this group has released in the last thirteen years is a 3-song EP, so I think it’s rather safe to assume that we won’t be seeing any more Earth-rending albums or spirited live performances from them for the foreseeable future. However, their discography is already, in two words, *a masterpiece* and I really can’t recommend you either revisit their discography or dive in for the first time. If you smash play on the track above, you’ll be immersed in Dissolved Girl from their OUTSTANDING 1998 album Mezzanine. After this musical entry, I’ve got a few weeks worth of Halloween music headed your way!

There is so much more detail I could have gone into for this post, but a lengthy group history didn’t feel appropriate for the purpose of brevity. It’s always possible you won’t or don’t like their works. But the only indefatigable way to know if you personally resonate with their tunes is to give them the old community college try, or to simply revisit their albums and start all over again. But be warned, going down the rabbit hole of their discography might leave you temporarily addicted. I would know, I tried it myself for this post. Image source: https://massiveattack.ie/info/take-it-there

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Ok, so I've spent the past year playing too much baldur's gate 3 (happy 1rst anniversary), and I've also started rewatching Castlevania, and I *have* to ask, how do you think the trio (Sypha, Adrian and Trevor) would react to someone with access to actual divine power (cleric or paladin) of a god that's much more present and benevolent than the one they've known?

(Sorry if you've gotten this kind of ask before, I haven't visited your blog in ages)

Happy bday BG3!! Im still there and never left (until DA Veilguard comes along 👀🫨, where you at?)

But all that aside, welcome to my blog fellow CV fan, and thank you so much for your request 😄

Masterlist 11

Trevor

Is half amazed at your display of power in smiting demons, but also half-serious in how you can try and use your powers so that no vampire guts get on his tunic

He’s the farthest from a praying man but he’ll seek help from your power once he realizes he cares for/loves you

Sypha

You two together make the deadliest duo when it comes to fighting

Knowledge wise, you’re also strongly compatible together given Sypha’s travels and however long you’ve been alive. Swapping stories about each other is the surest way to bond and she’s glad her ramblings are met with an eagerness that matches her own.

Alucard

I feel like initially he’ll have some embittered feelings, such as why couldn’t you help earlier against the armies or the most pressing matter of rescuing Lisa

Anything after that, his icy demeanor does start to thaw out as he sees how well Trevor and Sypha get along with you. And when the realization dawns that you and him have much more time together than the others, he seeks out your company all the time.

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Tricky

Adrian Thaws (2014)

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