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In 1991, before the release of Massive Attack's album Blue Lines, he met Martina Topley-Bird.

Some time later she came to his house, and mentioned to Tricky and Mark Stewart that she could sing.

Martina was only fifteen years old, but her ' honey-coated vox ' impressed them and they recorded a song called " Aftermath " ( though The Face ' 95 mentions that the first song they recorded together was called " Shoebox ").

Tricky showed " Aftermath " to Massive Attack, but they were not interested.

So in 1993 he decided to press a few hundred vinyl copies of the song.

He cut it directly off of the tape, so that the song is basically " just bassline and hiss ".

( NME 1994 ).

Finally, a white label got him a contract with Island Records and he started to record his first solo album.