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David Browne
David Browne is EW's music critic and author of ''Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley'' (HarperCollins)
If trip-hop has a Phil Spector, it's British producer-remixer Tricky, whose mix of light hip-hop beats and nod-out, Lava lamp atmospherics defines the genre. R&B for the head, Maxinquaye is engrossing musical collage art that bumps, grinds, and simmers. Once in a while, it even overheats: Tricky's radical revamping of Public Enemy's prison-break anthem ''Black Steel'' — now a clanking jumble of club beats, metal, and singer Martine's sly phrasing — is mind-bending. A
Posted Jun 02, 1995
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