Bottom/ Featuring Juno Reactor, Total Eclipse and The Infinity Project, Trip Through Sound (1997) unleashes an interstellar, urgent vibe. Some consider Blue Room Released to be one of the most important labels in the psychedelic trance genre. Top/ Cutting like a diamond: 100th Window (Virgin Records) is the fourth studio album from the Bristol-based trip-hop group Massive Attack. Of the band's original core trio, the album only features Robert Del Naja. Andrew Vowles departed shortly after the release of Mezzanine, and Grant Marshall refused to participate in the making of the record. Released in February 2003, 100th Window was written and produced by Del Naja and Neil Davidge, and features vocals from Horace Andy and Sinéad O'Connor (on tracks including "What Your Soul Sings"), as well as an imperceptible appearance by Damon Albarn. It is the first album by the band that made no use of samples, and contains none of the jazz or jazz fusion stylings of the band's earlier recordings. 100th Window received a generally positive, though somewhat muted critical reception, many arguing that whilst Massive Attack's previous three albums had all broken significant new ground for the group, 100th Window's dark, brooding sound was merely a continuation, although in some areas, less dark, of Mezzanine. The title of the album comes from the book The Hundredth Window: Protecting Your Privacy and Security in the Age of the Internet; this title is an allusion to the idea that one's security is compromised if even one window is left open.
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