On November 2 Universal Island will release a deluxe edition of Tricky’s landmark debut album, Maxinquaye. 

Originally released in February 1995, Maxinquaye was instantly hailed as a modern classic and in the 14 years since it’s lost none of its power. Along with Massive Attack‘s Blue Lines and Portishead’s self-titled debut it’s one of the the definitive "trip-hop" albums, but its qualities transcend the tag. Having contributed distinctive raps to Massive Attack’s Blue Lines and Protection, trouble Bristolian Adrian Thawes set about working on his own distinctive musical vision, enlisting the help of local schoolgirl Martina Topley-Bird on vocal duties. The results are dark as hell, but never less than compelling: from the Isaac Hayes-sampling ‘Hell Is Round The Corner’ and paranoid metal reinvention of Public Enemy’s ‘Black Steel’ via the impossibly luscious, strung-out opener ‘Overcome’, the initimable Maxinquaye astonishes at every turn. Tricky has yet to even come close to bettering it. 

The deluxe CD re-issue includes a bonus disc of remixes and alternate versions, including three brand new Tricky takes on ‘Hell Is Round The Corner’, ‘Overcome’ and ‘Black Steel’. 

Tracklisting:

DISC 2

     1.    Overcome    2.    Ponderosa    3.    Black Steel    4.    Hell Is Round The Corner    5.    Pumpkin    6.    Aftermath    7.    Abbaon Fat Tracks    8.    Brand New You’re Retro    9.    Suffocated Love    10.    You Don’t    11.    Strugglin’    12.    Feed Me

DISC 2     1.    She Devil (rough monitor mix)    2.    Ponderosa (Dobies Rub Part One)    3.    Slick 66 (commercial 12)    4.    Overcome (Bungle Mix)    5.    Brand New You’re Retro (Alex Reece mix)    6.    Black Steel (Been Caught Steeling mix)    7.    Aftermath (version 1)    8.    Just For The Hate Of It (rough monitor mix)    9.    Karma Coma (accapella – rough monitor mix)    10.    Black Steel (accapella – rough monitor mix)    11.    Overcome (2009 mix by Tricky & Al Riley)    12.    Hell Is Round The Corner (2009 mix by Tricky & Gareth Bowen)    13.    Black Steel (2009 mix by Tricky, Jose Maria & Kidd Rasta)