Risingson
Song Info On Risingson
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Risingson (Single Release), Collected, Singles 90/98, , Oorgasm 1 (Underdog Remix), 50,000,000 DJs Can't Be Wrong - Volume One: Mixed Up Beats (Otherside)
7th July 1997
04:58
Underdog Remix - Following on from his remix work on Sly and Protection, Underdog would turn the regular version into a furious drum'n bass tune. This remix would mark Underdog's last ever remix for Massive Attack. Included on all single releases.
Underdog Instrumental - An instrumental mix of the original Underdog remix exactly the same as the original remix sans vocals. Included only on the promo 12" vinyl release.
Otherside - This is in fact an alternative mix of Risingson done by Massive Attack themselves. It augments the song with even louder and abasive guitars and drum beats. The added guitar parts were done by Jon Harris, who would later become apart of Sunna, one of the bands on Massive Attack's Melankolic label. Included on all single releases.
Otherside Instrumental - An instrumental version of the Otherside mix exactly the same as the original remix sans vocals. Included only on the promo 12" vinyl release.
Underworld Remix - This remix was done by Darren Emerson from the now defunct dance band Underworld. Very much intended for clubs, it strips away all vocals in the regular song down to just the line "Toy-like, Boy-like". Included only on the promo 12" vinyl release, until the arrival of the Singles 90/98 Box Set where this remix was included on CD for the first time.
Setting Sun Dub 2 - This is a previously unheard mix that surfaced in June 2007 upon the opening of Massive Attack's official MySpace page. It is streamed on the aforementioned page in a heavily compressed but listenable quality. As the title of the remix sugests it is a dub remix of the original Risingson wit the remixer remaining amonyous, possibly Massive Attack themselves.
Written by Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall and Andrew Vowles
Produced by Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall and Andrew Vowles
Engineering and programming by Doc Savage
See Mezzanine info section for further credit details by clicking here.
For the Collected version of the song, additional credits are:
Remastered by Mike Marsh at the Exchange and Tim Young at Metropolis Mastering.
Risingson uses a sample from the song "I Found A Reason" by The Velvet Underground. It appears primarily on their 1970 release Loaded. It is credited officially by Massive Attack.
Apart from this aforementioned sample, Risingson also uses a sample from the song Practice Makes Perfect by Wire. It appears primarily on their 1978 release Chairs Missing. It is not credited officially by Massive Attack.
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Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall
Risingson ended up being the first completed song from Mezzanine and was released a good ten months before the album would come out as limited edition single only within the UK. The single release was intended both to serve as a preview to Massive Attack's long awaited third album (as they came to the conclusion that the album would not make it's original 1997 deadline) and also as a promotional tool for the 1997 tour.
Risingson was the first single released from Mezzanine, preceeding its sister album by over ten months.
Risingson would mark Daddy G's first return to vocals on a Massive Attack single since Daydreaming.
Neil Davidge is credited as being "Doc Savage" on the single release of Risingson. This is the only other occurrence besides Wire where he is credited as such.
Risingson along with a sampling of a few other Mezzanine-bound tracks were first played during the 1997 tour partly to gauge crowd reactions to these newly demoed songs. It's live debut to be exact was at the Royal Dublin Showgrounds in Dublin, Ireland on 21st June 1997.
During the 1997 tour, the backdrop to the stage was a large canvas poster of the image from the Risingson single.
Since the 1997 tour, Risingson has become a permanent fixture on the live setlist on all subsequent tours. It is usually the second or third track played at each show.
Before his departure from the band, Mushroon would perform DJ duties (such as the use of The Velvet Underground sample and doing scratching) during this song. Daddy G would take up this DJ role on the 2006 tour.
Since the 2003 tour, Arden Hart, the live band's keyboardist has performed backing vocals on Risingson.
Daddy G on Risingson - "The way we approached the vocals on that track and the fact that it was a totally different way of doing things than we usually do; with the whole thing with the chorus to chorus that we got on it. Quite an unorthodox way of appraching a rap track" [Mezzanine Interview Disc – March 1998]
Angelo Bruschini on Risingson's chart performance - "They were very, very nervous. There was a big sigh of relief when that sold, I think" [Q Magazine - January 1999]
3D on why Risingson was released almost a year before Mezzanine in 1997- "Risingson was a wierd track because, it was more developed than some of the other ideas on Mezzanine and we were talking about going on tour that summer [1997], and we felt we needed to justify our presense on stage, so we needed to put something out there, at least! [Collected EPK - March 2006]