Massive Attack Istanbul 2024

“After taking a short break in July from the 1997 tour in Turkey, Massive Attack would return to Bristol with cassettes of Turkish music which would be the inspiration for what would eventually become “Inertia Creeps”. They used the Manic Street Preachers track from 1994 as the basis to hang the Turkish sample on. The Turkish music was overheard by Massive Attack at a belly dancer club in Istanbul, and the very percussive nature of it piqued 3D’s interest immediately. The lyrics for the song had already been written several months before and the Turkish music backing track would serve as an appropriate musical canvas for his thoughts on one of his own personnel dysfunctional relationships he had in the past.”