Love this:
"Massive Attack had not taken the cost of the orchestra into account when planning the budget for Blue Lines, and had to sell their car to pay for it."
#massiveattack #bluelines #bristol
Dan Phiffer
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Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/18/massive-attack-remove-music-from-spotify-to-protest-ceo-daniel-eks-investment-in-ai-military
'Unconnected to this initiative and in light of the (reported) significant investments by its CEO in a company producing military munition drones and AI technology integrated into fighter aircraft, Massive Attack have made a separate request to our label that our music be removed from the Spotify streaming service in all territories.
In our view, the historic precedent of effective artist action during apartheid South Africa and the apartheid, war crimes and genocide now being committed by the state of Israel renders the No Music for Genocide campaign imperative.
In the separate case of Spotify, the economic burden that has long been placed on artists is now compounded by a moral and ethical burden, whereby the hard-earned money of fans and the creative endeavours of musicians ultimately funds lethal, dystopian technologies.
Enough is more than enough.
Another way is possible.'
#MassiveAttack #spotify #DanielEk #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #capitalism #music #MusicBusiness
Massive Attack and Kneecap.
Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/18/massive-attack-remove-music-from-spotify-to-protest-ceo-daniel-eks-investment-in-ai-military
'Unconnected to this initiative and in light of the (reported) significant investments by its CEO in a company producing military munition drones and AI technology integrated into fighter aircraft, Massive Attack have made a separate request to our label that our music be removed from the Spotify streaming service in all territories.
In our view, the historic precedent of effective artist action during apartheid South Africa and the apartheid, war crimes and genocide now being committed by the state of Israel renders the No Music for Genocide campaign imperative.
In the separate case of Spotify, the economic burden that has long been placed on artists is now compounded by a moral and ethical burden, whereby the hard-earned money of fans and the creative endeavours of musicians ultimately funds lethal, dystopian technologies.
Enough is more than enough.
Another way is possible.'
#MassiveAttack #spotify #DanielEk #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #capitalism #music #MusicBusiness
Strypey
and 2 others
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Ooooof. This is quite something from Massive Attack. Brutal activist art.
HT @span alecm
Ooooof. This is quite something from Massive Attack. Brutal activist art.
HT @span alecm
Jamey Sharp
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#MassiveAttack Turns #Concert Into #FacialRecognition#Surveillance#Experiment - Gadget Review
#Bristol band uses live facial recognition on concertgoers to create uncomfortable art about surveillance culture
#privacy #biometrics
#MassiveAttack Turns #Concert Into #FacialRecognition#Surveillance#Experiment - Gadget Review
#Bristol band uses live facial recognition on concertgoers to create uncomfortable art about surveillance culture
#privacy #biometrics
priryo@linernotes.club
and 1 other
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“#MassiveAttack, #Kneecap and others form musician alliance against 'silencing' by pro-Israel groups”
by Shafik Mandhai in Middle East Eye
“Acts including Kneecap, #BrianEno, and #Garbage have signed up for the group, which was announced on the back of a documentary by campaign group Led By Donkeys about the work of a pro-Israel group that is silencing activism on the situation in Palestine”
“#MassiveAttack, #Kneecap and others form musician alliance against 'silencing' by pro-Israel groups”
by Shafik Mandhai in Middle East Eye
“Acts including Kneecap, #BrianEno, and #Garbage have signed up for the group, which was announced on the back of a documentary by campaign group Led By Donkeys about the work of a pro-Israel group that is silencing activism on the situation in Palestine”