Massive Attack

Massive Attack are an English trip hop group formed in 1988 in Bristol, consisting of Robert "3D" 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 1. Both Blue Lines and Mezzanine feature in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

The group has won numerous music awards throughout their career, including a Brit Award—winning Best British Dance Act, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and two Q Awards. They have released five studio albums that have sold over 11 million copies worldwide.

History

DJs Daddy G and Andrew Vowles and graffiti artist-turned-rapper Robert Del Naja met as members of partying collective The Wild Bunch. One of the first homegrown soundsystems in the UK, The Wild Bunch became dominant on the Bristol club scene in the mid-1980s.

Massive Attack (song)

"Massive Attack" is a song by American rapper Nicki Minaj and American recording artist Sean Garrett. Written by Minaj, co-written and produced by Garrett and Alex da Kid, "Massive Attack" was released on April 13, 2010. It was initially intended to be the first single from Minaj's debut studio album Pink Friday, but the release was later scrapped in favor of "Your Love". The song was a distinct change in Minaj's previous work on mixtapes and features, thus receiving mixed to positive reviews from critics, commending lyrical content and distinctiveness, and critiquing that it did not fit her "Barbie" persona well. An accompanying music video which features a helicopter chase, and militaristic jungle and desert scenes, was positively received.

Commercially, the song had limited success, reaching number 65 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart but only managing to bubble under the Billboard Hot 100 at 22. Later in an interview with Billboard magazine, Garrett revealed that the song would not be included on Pink Friday and that the poor performance of the song was out of his control, "I was only able to do as much as I was allowed to do. Sometimes you have to step back and get off the wheel. I didn't have control of the entire creative process. A lot of [other] artists trust me enough and allow me to do what I know is best to do as a producer".

LOMOcean Design

LOMOcean Design is a naval architecture and yacht design company based in Auckland, New Zealand.

History

LOMOcean Design, previously known as Craig Loomes Design Group ltd., was incorporated in 1993, but has some designs that date back as far as 1986. The company underwent a name change from Craig Loomes Design Group to LOMOcean Design in 2009 as a way of showing the contributions that the other directors and staff have made towards the company. The company designs custom, one off boats, and the boats designed range between 10 meters in length such as the 10 meter Police Strike Craft to vessels as big as 148 meters in length such as the 148m Moonset trimaran super yacht. The boats use advanced composite materials, such as carbon fibre and kevlar, as well as aluminium and other such materials. Worldwide sales include Europe, the Americas, Oceania, South East Asia and the Middle East. The company has become known for designing a range of cutting edge wave-piercing catamarans and trimarans, most notably, Earthrace, and Tûranor PlanetSolar. Other than the wave-piercing designs, LOMOcean has also designed mono hull boats as well as power catamarans. The boats designed by LOMOcean Design are designed with a wide range of purposes in mind, such as fire fighting boats, global circumnavigating boats, pleasure yachts, coastguard boats and research vessels.