Breaking Ground By Breaking Ice

When you were a kid, did you ever have to play that lame ice breaker game where you say a slogan followed by “in my pants?”  For instance, “taste the rainbow in my pants”… “just do it in my pants”… etc etc.  Well, this is the musical realization of that game because it is literally a paradise circus in my pants, caused by a massive attack in my pants.
 
Not only is the song utterly fantastic in my pants, but the music video is so provocative yet so artistic that it’s going to blow your mind.  The British duo Robert “3D” Del Naja and Grant “Daddy G” Marshall make up Massive Attack. This is the Zeds Dead Remix, and I don’t expect it to be the last.
 
So if you have the self restraint, listen to the song first without watching the video and just try to imagine what it would look like.  Then remove all sharp objects from the vicinity and strap yourself in.
 
Massive Attack – Paradise Circus (Zeds Dead Remix)
 

WARNING: This is very much (visually) uncensored

Hey guys,

Lagging on posts thanks to these wonderful things called Columbia University midterms…but thought this deserved at a least a short post (!!):

On October 17, 2011, Mary Anne Hobbs’ show aired Burial’s rework of Massive Attack’s “Paradise Circus”.   Although most remixes/reworks usually succeed in completely ruining a perfectly good song, Burial keeps enough of the rhythm and vocals of the original song and injects his own style.  What he leaves us with is a wholly original song that soaks the senses like an auditory opium, managing to sound part of this world and not (much like the reclusive Burial himself).  The result is this haunting masterpiece.

All 1000 copies of this limited edition 12″ release (featuring Burial’s remix of “Four Walls” as well) sold out within the first day…but you can still gawk at the pretty gold glitter screen-printed cover and the vinyl here.

You can listen to Hobb’s XFM radio show that aired this song here.

~A