Editing Massive Attack (section)

==Musical style==
Some of their most noted songs have been without choruses and have featured dramatically atmospheric dynamics. They use distorted guitar crescendos, lavish orchestral arrangements and prominent looped/shifting basslines. Underpinned by high and exacting production values, sometimes using copious digital editing and mixing.<ref name=timedigital/> The pace of their music has often been slower than prevalent British [[Electronic dance music|dance music]] of the time. These and other [[Psychedelic music|psychedelic]], soundtrack-like and DJist techniques, formed their style which has often been emulated. Journalists described this sound as "[[trip hop]]" from the mid-nineties onwards.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=explore|id=style/d2644|pure_url=yes}}|title=Trip Hop|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=20 May 2009}}</ref> In an interview in 2006, Daddy G said, "We used to hate that terminology ''trip-hop'' so bad," [laughs] "You know, as far we were concerned, Massive Attack music was unique, so to put it in a box was to pigeonhole it and to say, 'Right, we know where you guys are coming from.'"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hour.ca/music/music.aspx?iIDArticle=10216|title=Massive Attack in Montreal, 11 September|work=Hour|publisher=Communications Voir Inc.|date=7 September 2006|access-date=26 May 2009|last=Tousignant|first=Isa|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061027212620/http://www.hour.ca/music/music.aspx?iIDArticle=10216|archive-date=27 October 2006}}</ref>