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Robert Del Naja ( born 21 January 1965 ), also known as ___MASK2___ , is an English artist , musician , singer and songwriter . He emerged as a graffiti artist and member of the Bristol collective The Wild Bunch , and later as a founding member of the band Massive Attack , with whom he is still active . ___MASK74___ ( NME ) is a British music journalism magazine published since 1952 . It was the first British paper to include a singles chart , in the edition of 14 November 1952 . In the 1970s it became the best - selling British music newspaper . During the period 1972 to 1976 , it was particularly associated with gonzo journalism , then became closely associated with punk rock through the writings of Julie Burchill , Paul Morley and Tony Parsons . It started as a music newspaper , and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s and 1990s , changing from newsprint in 1998 . " Unfinished Sympathy " is a song by ___MASK64___ trip hop group Massive Attack , released under the temporary group name of Massive . It was written by the three band members Robert " ___MASK2___ " Del Naja , Andrew " Mushroom " Vowles and Grant " Daddy G " Marshall , the song ' s vocalist Shara Nelson and the group ' s co - producer Jonathan " Jonny Dollar " Sharp . The song was released as the second single from the band ' s debut album " Blue Lines ", on the band ' s Wild Bunch label distributed through Circa Records on 11 February 1991 . The choice of using the name " Massive " was done to avoid a radio ban as its release coincided with the Gulf War . Produced by Massive Attack and Dollar , the song incorporates various musical elements into its arrangement , including vocal and percussion samples , drum programming , and string orchestration by arranger Wil Malone . Massive Attack are an ___MASK64___ trip hop group formed in 1988 in Bristol , consisting of Robert " ___MASK2___ " Del Naja , Grant " Daddy G " Marshall and formerly Andy " Mushroom " Vowles (" Mush "). Their debut album " Blue Lines " was released in 1991 , with the single " Unfinished Sympathy " reaching the charts and later being voted the 63rd greatest song of all time in a poll by " NME ". 1998 ' s " Mezzanine ", containing " Teardrop ", and 2003 ' s " 100th Window " charted in the UK at number one . Both " Blue Lines " and " Mezzanine " feature in " Rolling Stone " s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . The ___MASK87___ ( currently entitled Official Singles Chart ) is compiled by the Official Charts Company ( OCC ), on behalf of the British ___MASK97___ industry , listing the top - selling singles in the ___MASK91___ , based upon physical sales , paid - for downloads and streaming . To be eligible for the chart , a single is currently defined by the Official Charts Company ( OCC ) as either a ' single bundle ' having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes or one ___MASK34___ audio track not longer than 15 minutes with a minimum sale price of 40 pence . The rules have changed many times as technology has developed , the most notable being the inclusion of ___MASK34___ downloads in 2005 and streaming in 2014 . Breakbeat as a term refers to one of two distinct things . Originally it would have referred only to " A breakbeat " ( 1 ), a section of a song in which , typically , all or at least most of the instruments stop for a period , usually around one bar , except for the drums , which would continue the ___MASK57___ even if altered . Since the rise of electronic music it can now also refer to the electronic music genre " Breakbeat " ( 2 ), characterized as a genre of groove - oriented music which utilizes a lo - fi sampled breakbeat ( or combination of breakbeats ) for the main drum beat , and usually incorporates other lo - fi sampled " hits " as well . Bristol is a city , unitary authority area and county in South West England with an estimated population of 449 , 300 in 2016 . It is England ' s sixth and the ___MASK91___ ' s eighth most populous city , and the most populous city in Southern England after London . The city borders the Unitary Authority areas of North Somerset and South Gloucestershire , with the historic cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south - east and north - east , respectively . Blue Lines is the debut ___MASK3___ by English trip hop group Massive Attack , released on their Wild Bunch label through ___MASK46___ on 8 April 1991 . A remastered version of the album was released on 19 November 2012 . The Official Charts Company ( previously known as the Chart Information Network ( CIN ) The Official UK Charts Company and also referred to Official Charts ) is a British inter - professional organisation that compiles various " official " ___MASK97___ charts in the ___MASK91___ , including the UK Singles Chart , the UK Albums Chart , the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart , as well as genre - specific and music video charts . The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Millward Brown , and claims to cover 99 % of the singles market and 95 % of the album market , and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week . Sinéad Marie Bernadette O  Connor ( born 8 December 1966 ) is an Irish singer - songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut ___MASK20___ " The Lion and the Cobra ". O  Connor achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a new arrangement of Prince  s song " Nothing Compares 2 U ". Hip hop is a subcultural art movement that was formed during the early 1970s primarily by African - American and Afro Puerto Rican youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City . Art historian Robert Farris Thompson describes the demographics of the youth that characterize the South Bronx in the early 1970s as " ___MASK64___ - speaking blacks from Barbados " like Grandmaster Flash , " black Jamaicans " like DJ Kool Herc , " thousands of Nuyoricans ", who introduced the rhythms from Salsa ( music ), as well as Afro conga and bonga drums , as well as many who emulated the sounds of Tito Puente and Willie Colón with existing styles of musical styles from jazz to ___MASK33___ associated with African Americans prior to the 1970s . Hip hop music became popular outside of the African - American community in the late 1980s . After the rise of new media platforms and Web 2 . 0 technology of the Internet , fans would primarily consume the musical genre through social networking sites ( SNS ) beginning with Myspace evolving to notable mobile apps like YouTube , Worldstarhiphop , SoundCloud , and Spotify . Trip hop is a subgenre of electronic music that originated in the early 1990s in the ___MASK91___ , especially Bristol . Deriving from later idioms of acid house , the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat emerging from the Bristol Sound scene , which contained influences of soul , funk and jazz . It has been described as " Europe ' s alternative choice in the second half of the ' 90s ", and " a fusion of hip hop and electronica until neither genre is recognisable ". Trip hop music fuses several styles and has much in common with other genres ; it has several qualities similar to ambient music , and its drum - based breakdowns share characteristics with hip hop . It also contains elements of R & B , dub and house , as well as other electronic music . Trip hop can be highly experimental . `` Special Cases '' is a song on ___MASK64___ trip hop collective Massive Attack ' s fourth full - length album , 100th Window . It was released as the first single from this album on 24 February 2003 , reaching # 15 in the UK Singles Chart . Featuring Sinéad O ' Connor on vocals , it was for many fans of the band their first exposure to the new album . In addition to a radio edit of the original song , the single release contains a remix by Canadian electronica artist Akufen , as well as `` I Against I '' , a song performed with Mos Def that appeared on the soundtrack of the 2002 film Blade II . 12 `` vinyl releases contained an additional remix of '' Special Cases `` by Vladislav Delay , who is credited as '' Luomo `` for this release . The song was also made into two separate videos . The Enhanced CD contains one of these , and the other video is on a rare DVD release of the single . Despite being one of the band ' s higher charting singles , it did not appear on their 2006 singles compilation Collected . 100th Window is the fourth ___MASK3___ from the Bristol - based trip - hop group Massive Attack . Of the band ' s original core trio , the album only features Robert Del Naja . Andrew Vowles departed shortly after the release of " Mezzanine ", and Grant Marshall refused to participate in the making of the record . The ___MASK91___ of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the ___MASK91___ ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign country in western Europe . Lying off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous country , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated country in the ___MASK44___ . Acid house is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid - 1980s by DJs from Chicago . The style was defined primarily by the deep basslines and " squelching " sounds of the Roland TB - 303 electronic synthesizer - sequencer . Acid house spread to the ___MASK91___ and continental Europe , where it was played by DJs in the acid house and later rave scenes . By the late 1980s , acid house had moved into the British mainstream , where it had some influence on ___MASK15___ and dance styles . " Nothing Compares 2 U " is a song written and composed by Prince for one of his side projects , " The Family " ___MASK20___ by The Family band . It was later made famous by Irish recording artist Sinéad O ' Connor , whose arrangement was released as the second single from her second ___MASK3___ , " I Do Not Want What I Haven ' t Got ". This version , which O ' Connor co - produced with Nellee Hooper , became a worldwide hit in 1990 . A music video , which has been described as iconic , was shot and received heavy rotation on MTV . Its lyrics explore feelings of longing from an abandoned lover ' s point of view . The Lion and the Cobra is the 1987 debut ___MASK20___ by Irish singer Sinéad O ' Connor on Ensign / Chysalis records . O ' Connor , age 20 at the time , recorded the ___MASK20___ while heavily pregnant with her first child . ___MASK33___ is a music genre that originated in the mid - 1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic , danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music , jazz , and rhythm and blues ( R & B ). ___MASK33___ de - emphasizes melody and chord progressions used in other related genres and brings a strong rhythmic groove of a bass line played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a drummer to the foreground . ___MASK33___ songs are often based on an extended vamp on a single chord , distinguishing them from R & B and soul songs , which are built on complex chord progressions . ___MASK33___ uses the same richly - colored extended chords found in bebop jazz , such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths , or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths .