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3D is a Contemporary R&B act. Their sound grew out of Crass, The Clash, Gaika and Optimus Rhyme. Those roots explain a lot about how 3D arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Machete, Nayt, Dynamite, Gemitaiz and So What, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Goldie, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 15 connections around 3D, reaching back through Crass and forward to Goldie. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Robert Del Naja, also known as 3D, is an English singer-songwriter and artist. He emerged as a graffiti artist and member of the Bristol collective the Wild Bunch, and later as a founding member and sole consistent member of the band Massive Attack, with which he is still active. In 2009, he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
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3D connections
3D grew out of Crass, The Clash, Gaika and Optimus Rhyme, shares an orbit with Machete, Nayt, Dynamite and Gemitaiz, went on to shape Goldie. 15 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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